Alberta

  • Alberta election shocker likely good for the environment

    Ralph Maughan

    New Democrats clear away over 40 years of Conservative rule- Alberta has never really elected a clearly left wing party, but did so yesterday with a vengeance.  Populist yes in the past, e.g, the Social Credit Party, but not a left-wing party. Voters gave the left wing New Democrats (NDP) a large parliamentary majority (53…

  • Alberta Fish and Wildlife has success helicoptering road kill to hungry grizzly bears in the springtime

    Ralph Maughan

    Will this program stem the decline of grizzlies in SW Alberta? Grizzlies are on the decline in Alberta. The province has far fewer bears than adjacent British Columbia and even fewer than the state of Montana to its south. Resource development such as tar sands, natural gas exploration and development all along the Rocky Mountain…

  • Alberta ranchers bluster about grizzlies too

    Ralph Maughan

    Brian Horejsi takes some wind out- In the United States we are familiar with livestock operators in grizzly country often complaining about how they have a lot of trouble with grizzly bears. A half century ago, the province of Alberta had many more of the great bear than the struggling American populations south of the…

  • Growing problem in British Columbia and Alberta? Winter logging destroying grizzly dens with bears and cubs inside

    Ralph Maughan

    Is this a new problem or a sudden realization of an old one? Whether it is or not, this issue is heating up in British Columbia and Alberta  The adult grizzlies are more likely to escape the wintertime dozers and other heavy equipment than the cubs, but the mortality rate of even adults is substantial.…

  • Another reason to hate the Alberta tar sand development

    Ralph Maughan

    Caribou recovery plan near oil sands may target wolves- Of course the huge pit mines completely wipe out wildlife habitat including that of the rare woodland caribou. Most the the herds in Alberta and part of B.C. have been rated as “unlikely to survive.” Their plan to save the caribou is to kill thousands of…

  • Montana judge rules against transport of giant oilfield equipment

    Ralph Maughan

    Judge stops transport of megaloads through Western Montana- Great news!  Especially after all the elected U. S. officials from governors to the White House seem to have sold out. Montana judge rules against transport of giant oilfield equipment. Victory for campaigners as decision delivers a new setback to the efforts of Alberta tar sands. By…

  • Megaloads video: Giant rig opponents say its your land, water and air versus Exxon

    Ralph Maughan

    Exxon Mobil is the world’s most profitable corporation- A new video about their megaloads through Idaho and Montana to their vast toxic pits in Alberta- Oil companies have colluded with the Idaho’s and Montana’s governors so they can make even more profits than if they built the machinery for the toxic Alberta tar sands mining…

  • Giant forest fires roam across northern Alberta

    Ralph Maughan

    Strange May blazes burn a third of Slave Lake, Alberta, and threaten to cook the tar sands area- It’s only mid-May, and it still struggles to get much above 60 degrees here in Eastern Idaho, but forest fires are torching northern Alberta, not all that far from the Arctic Circle. A third of the town…

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‎”At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour.”

Edward Abbey

“The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.”

Jim Fowler

“Our forests offer much more than just beautiful landscapes and wildlife. Each one has a different story to tell.”

Raveena Tandon

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