Moving vehicles for fly fishers along the Bow River since 1987
Monday, September 16, 2013
Alberta’s wetlands policy turns out to be all wet
Environment Minister Diana McQueen announces a new
wetlands policy on Tuesday at the Clifford E Lee Nature Sanctuary near
Edmonton. Photo, Bruce Edwards, Edmonton Journal
Alberta Wetland Policy - September 2013
"New policy aims to minimize the destruction of wetlands", By Sheila Pratt, Calgary Herald Wed Sept 11 2013
The provincial government will provide flexibility in its new policy to
protect wetlands and will allow industries to pay into a public
education fund or build a marshland elsewhere to compensate for
destroying a wetland.
The new
policy, which moves away from the no-net loss principle, calls for a
hierarchy of wetlands with a policy geared to offer more protection to
"high value" wetlands, said Diana McQueen, minister of Environment and
Sustainable Resource Development.
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