Bighorn Country

Edmonton, Red Deer & Calgary:  At press conferences today in Alberta’s three largest media centres, Alberta’s conservation groups announced that the government’s proposed new parks legislation is so regressive and harmful to Alberta’s parks that they are launching November 15-20 as Save Our Parks Week.  They want the Bill withdrawn by the Tourism, Parks and Recreation Minister and are calling on Albertans to save their parks by emailing and faxing their MLAs and Premier Stelmach, with copies to the opposition parties, starting first thing Monday when the Bill is scheduled for debate late that day in the Legislature.  The groups expect that once the public realizes passage of the Bill will pull the le­gal teeth out of their existing parks legislation and make it the law that protection is no longer the pri­ority in any of their parks, such public action can stop the Bill as it did a similar one in 1999.... Read more »