New Democrats clear away over 40 years of Conservative rule-
Alberta has never really elected a clearly left wing party, but did so yesterday with a vengeance. Populist yes in the past, e.g, the Social Credit Party, but not a left-wing party.
Voters gave the left wing New Democrats (NDP) a large parliamentary majority (53 […]
Continue Reading →Will this program stem the decline of grizzlies in SW Alberta?
Grizzlies are on the decline in Alberta. The province has far fewer bears than adjacent British Columbia and even fewer than the state of Montana to its south.
Resource development such as tar sands, natural gas exploration and development all along the Rocky Mountain […]
Continue Reading →Brian Horejsi takes some wind out-
In the United States we are familiar with livestock operators in grizzly country often complaining about how they have a lot of trouble with grizzly bears.
A half century ago, the province of Alberta had many more of the great bear than the struggling American populations south of the […]
Continue Reading →Is this a new problem or a sudden realization of an old one?
Whether it is or not, this issue is heating up in British Columbia and Alberta The adult grizzlies are more likely to escape the wintertime dozers and other heavy equipment than the cubs, but the mortality rate of even adults is substantial. […]
Continue Reading →Caribou recovery plan near oil sands may target wolves-
Of course the huge pit mines completely wipe out wildlife habitat including that of the rare woodland caribou. Most the the herds in Alberta and part of B.C. have been rated as “unlikely to survive.” Their plan to save the caribou is to kill thousands of […]
Continue Reading →Judge stops transport of megaloads through Western Montana-
Great news! Especially after all the elected U. S. officials from governors to the White House seem to have sold out. Montana judge rules against transport of giant oilfield equipment. Victory for campaigners as decision […]
Continue Reading →Exxon Mobil is the world’s most profitable corporation-
A new video about their megaloads through Idaho and Montana to their vast toxic pits in Alberta-
Oil companies have colluded with the Idaho’s and Montana’s governors so they can make even more profits than if they built the machinery for the toxic Alberta tar […]
Continue Reading →Strange May blazes burn a third of Slave Lake, Alberta, and threaten to cook the tar sands area-
It’s only mid-May, and it still struggles to get much above 60 degrees here in Eastern Idaho, but forest fires are torching northern Alberta, not all that far from the Arctic Circle. A third of the town […]
Continue Reading →Another roadblock to the use of Idaho Highway 12 and Montana highways as corridors for moving Alberta bound tar sand equipment-
This is good news, although likely temporary.
The turnouts constructed on the Montana side of Lolo Pass appear to be larger than the oil giant said and closer to Lolo Creek which already suffers […]
Continue Reading →Idaho landowners and conservationists to get help from Montana allies-
National Wildlife Federation Prepared to Sue Montana Over Mega-loads. By George Prentice. Boise Weekly.
Exxon is now getting ready to test taking the megaloads up Highway 12 and through Montana. There could be as many as 200 gigantic loads from Exxon sent to […]
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