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Premier Alison Redford all but ruled out any future sale of 6,500 hectares of native grasslands used as grazing area in southeast Alberta a day after her Progressive Conservative government announced it would kill a request for proposals to sell the parcel for irrigation agriculture. Photograph by: Bruce Edwards, Calgary Herald |
True to her word, Alberta Premier Alison Redford has put a stop to the land sale in South Eastern Alberta that would have seen native prairie grassland plowed under to create a giant potato patch.
Earlier this fall, we voiced our astonishment at the notion that the sale of this land that had ‘high conservation value’ was going to be used to purchase ‘high conservation value’ land somewhere else. Huh????
It would have been ‘Potato Chips – 1, Native Grassland – 0’. Fortunately, saner minds have prevailed.
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