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  • Legal loss to Shell dire for wildlife

    By Barrie K. Gilbert, PhD, Wildlife Scientist, Wolfe Island, Ont.
    Source: Edmonton Journal
    June 3, 2011

    The recent rejection by a superior court justice of an appeal of an Energy Resources Conservation Board decision on Shell Canada's application to drill in the Castle wilderness is fallacious.

    Now the legal system has joined the ERCB and the provincial sustainable resource development (SRD) department in failing to block further loss of grizzly bear habitat and endangered plant communities.

    The judge ruled: "The well's opponents did not present any persuasive evidence it would endanger the bears."

  • Despite “Threatened” Listing, Alberta Grizzly Deaths Remain Too High

    Media Release, March 14, 2011

    Even though grizzly bears were listed as threatened last June, grizzly bear mortality in Alberta reached unsustainable levels in 2010. An estimated 29 grizzlies died in Alberta, approximately 4.2 percent of the population. This level of mortality is much higher than the 2.8 percent mortality rate suggested as “sustainable” in the Alberta government’s own 2010 report, Status of the Alberta Grizzly Bear in Alberta.

    “The threatened listing is meaningless if serious measures are not introduced to reduce grizzly bear mortality,” says Nigel Douglas, Alberta Wilderness Association conservation specialist. “The single greatest benefit would come from reducing motorized access into grizzly bear habitat.”

  • Ranchland plans deadstock program

    By Sheena Read
    Source: Nanton News

    The Municipal District (MD) of Ranchland is planning a deadstock removal program to try to reduce predation issues.

    At the Jan. 11 meeting of the Ranchland ag service board, ag fieldman Carla Bick reported that she has spoken to West Coast Reductions about the absence of service to the Ranchland area. The representative she spoke to was unaware that the company didn't go into the area, but told Bick he would be interested in doing so.

    Producers who have deadstock to be removed can call the Calgary office rather than the Lethbridge office, and a truck will come out, at a rate of nine cents a pound or a $75 minimum fee.

    Bick suggested that an incentive program could be established to get producers to have the deadstock removed.

  • ACTION ALERT: Stand in Solidarity with the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation as they serve Shell Canada

    Come Join ACFN as they rally outside of Shell headquarter and deliver Shell their gift!

    Wednesday November 30, 2011 - 9:30 am

    Serving of Papers

    Shell Canada Corporate headquarters

    400 4 AVE SW,

    Calgary, AB

     

    FOLLOWED BY A PRESS CONFERENCE WHERE THE CHIEF AND ALLIES TAKE QUESTIONS

    10:30 am Press Conference

    Press Conference

    Kahanoff Center

    1202 Centre Street South

    Calgary, AB

     

    WHAT ELSE CAN I DO IF I CAN'T COME OUT?

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