Suffield National Wildlife Area Must be Protected for Wildlife, Not Industry
Alberta Wilderness Association
News Release: November 17, 2005
A mere two years after it was designated amid much pomp and ceremony, the Suffield National Wildlife Area (SNWA) in southeastern Alberta is the focus of a proposed intensive drilling effort by EnCana Corporation. AWA opposes any further industrialization of this federally protected native grassland.
"This area is of national and international significance, and wildlife values must take priority-after all the Government of Canada saw fit to designate it a National Wildlife Area," says Cliff Wallis, AWA past-president and grasslands expert. "We don't need more studies to know the value of this native grassland. We want to go straight to a public hearing and challenge the very essence of this project- industrial natural gas development in one of Canada's crown jewels of wildlife habitat." Read More