The Alberta NDP are using the caribou as their latest club to beat the embattled oil and gas industry with.
The NDP have plans to protect another 1.8 million hectares of Alberta wilderness from development, in order to preserve woodland caribou habitat.
The Caribou Communities of Alberta say they weren’t consulted when the NDP accepted the plans to protect the caribou habitat. (This may sound familiar to farmers…)
But part of this newly protected area would include a tract of land, nearly 400,000 hectares, that isn’t critical for the caribou.
The Caribou Communities worry that making this huge chunk of land off limits to development — with no real benefit to the caribou — would cost their already struggling communities precious jobs.
But you know who is helping the caribou? Oil companies.
Caribou migration is built into their business plans and project considerations.
The Algar Project saw oil companies plant 161,700 trees to recover 340km of seismic exploration lines in the region, to reclaim the habitat for the caribou.
The NDP don’t care about the caribou the way the towns and the people who live within the caribou habitat do.
The NDP only care about using caribou as the new polar bear, as just another mascot in the fight against fossil fuels.
Aren't the NDP all about “social license” and local buy in? Isn’t that how they think pipelines are supposed to happen?
Well, these locals aren’t buying what the NDP are selling.
The politician’s deception and belief that the Cdn public is so gullible astounds me. Put the words “climate change” or some other “feel good” language into a sentence and those with deficient IQs just lap it up.
Notley is milking the stupid and gullible like a pro. I wouldn’t sell her short before the next election. I doubt the NDP will win, but salvaging a large number of seats is achievable.
She may even fall victim to herself as a consequence.
It doesn’t even matter if they know its not true or believe it, it’s the new narrative now, most politicians on all sides are buying into it. It is going to be hard as hell to fight. It’s depressing.
The old people talk of days when caribou herds would run by their settlements in the thousands. But that was in the days before snowmobiles and ATV’s. In the old days they would go out to hunt on foot and be back in 3-4 days. When snow mobiles and ATV’s showed up they could go out and be back in 3-4 hours. Last time I was up in Nunavut I asked some of the old people what caused the caribou to thin out and they said " helicopters". Their mechanized hunting and their method of killing females and young ones had nothing to do with the herds thinning – it was helicopters.
It’s sad that they think that and it’s criminal that ideologues like the NDP would blame others rather than face the real problem.
We actually treat our sewage before releasing it.
Live and work in the oil patch in cold lake.
This site pulls over a 150k barrels a day.
I brake more for deer, coyotes, mother bear with a cub the other day, moose (they are so spastic), beaver in the middle of the road and on and on.
This in the middle of a major oil producing area.
These urban Eco nuts don’t know anything except what they’re fed from CBC while enjoying their lattes at the local coffee shop.
Sad actually.
The NDP have a long standing relationship with Socialist International and the UN is a tool of the SI. Last year the UN rebranded their New World Order depopulation plan Agenda 21 to Agenda 2030. The whole things sounds nutty but the implementation of this garbage is happening right before our eyes here in Alberta.
Notley’s hero Chavez IMHO was a ground breaker for the UN with their Agenda 21. He brought in Agenda 21 to Venezuela and look at it now – it’s literally on fire. Tens of thousands of people crossing the border every day to just get basic food stuffs and women are sterilizing themselves to stop having more mouths to feed. A number of the things he did to gain power and keep power look very similar to the steps that Notley’s government are taking.
I can only hope that more people wake up to what is really going on. 2019 can’t come fast enough with these crazies in power.
In September 2015, Agenda 21 Will Be Transformed Into The 2030 Agenda
http://www.infowars.com/in-september-2015-agenda-21-will-be-transformed-into-the-2030-agenda/
The Sustainable Development Agenda – http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/development-agenda/
Behind the Green Mask – Agenda 21 – Rosa Koire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDtCb45Lqt0
As a military officer I was once in charge of it all.
The biggest killer of those animals?
The local natives poaching them.
All military ranges are wildlife preserves.
Oil companies do a stellar job of not hurting wildlife.
In fact they helped improve buffalo and caribou habitat on the range.
This ndp action is a joke. A sick joke.
She may even fall victim to herself as a consequence.
The wild Rose will amend every stupid thing that the NDP ever did and Alberta will go back to normal in a few years along with jobs returning and financial responsibility in our government.