Conventional Oil & Gas
Feb 11 2012 - 1:00pm - 4:00pm
To the residents of surrounding Communities that may be affected by the oil well. Read more »
North West Family Church
10307 Eamon Road NW
Calgary,
AB
Oct 21 2011 - 9:00pm - Oct 24 2011 - 7:00pm
Canada 2011, 93 min, Beta SP, Dir: David York Read more »
Garneau Theatre
8712 109 Street NW
Edmonton,
AB T6G 1E9
The greater sage-grouse has been called Alberta's most endangered species. In 2011, just 13 male birds were recorded in Alberta, a 98 percent decline since 1968. The plight of the sage-grouse is desperate, and these spectacular birds need all the help they can get if they are going to survive in Alberta.
—Nigel Douglas, AWA Conservation Specialist
Background
The greater sage-grouse is one of Alberta's most spectacular birds, but also its most endangered species. Thirty years ago, there were hundreds of these birds distributed across the province's grasslands, performing their exotic "dances" at traditional lek sites. The bizarre bubbling and popping songs were an everyday feature of our prairies.
Today, with just 13 male birds recorded in Alberta in 2011, the province's sage-grouse are in desperate trouble. As is so often the case in Alberta, the cause of the problem is well known (destruction of sage-grouse habitat) and the solution is also known (protect that habitat). If the greater sage-grouse is allowed to disappear, it will be what University of Alberta professor Dr. Mark Boyce describes as "the first case where the oil and gas industry has caused the extirpation of a species in Canada.” Read more »
The Alberta Wilderness Association has called on the Government of Alberta to undertake a "full and transparent investigation… into the safety, health and environmental damage associated with the Rainbow I Pipeline spill." They further ask the ERCB to "thoroughly examine current pipeline management, monitoring, and enforcement policies" before "all other proposed intra-Alberta pipelin Read more »
