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| Kevin Van Tighem Photograph by: Colleen De Neve , Calgary Herald |
Winds of change are blowing on Alberta's prairie
Kevin Van Tighem, Calgary Herald
Published: Saturday, January 04, 2014
Bow River Shuttles writes: From prairie grassland to potato patch? Haven't we been down this road before?
Kevin Van Tighem writes: "Lobbying by special interest groups appears to have won out, because the draft South Saskatchewan Regional Plan contains not one single conservation area east of Highway 2 — where most of our species at risk are found.
Worse, it offers up a third of what remains for sale to irrigation farmers — something the regional advisory committee never even considered. Once plowed, prairie doesn’t recover."
Read article here: http://bit.ly/KrQoei
Your advice on what should be in the South Saskatchewan Regional Plan can go as a simple email to bev.yee@gov.ab.ca
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