Oil Company Grouses Erroneously
Stephen Hazell
Director of Conservation
and General Counsel
Ranchers and oil and gas companies are critical to the conservation of prairie grassland species at risk such as the Greater Sage Grouse, and Nature Canada is committed to supporting a sustainable economy in the region as well as nature conservation.
“However, LGX Oil and Gas claimed yesterday that the emergency order to protect the endangered Greater Sage Grouse in southern Alberta caused it to go bankrupt. LGX has been on notice for three decades that drilling in Sage Grouse habitat is highly problematic” said Stephen Hazell, Director of Conservation at Nature Canada. “The Sage Grouse was federally listed as threatened in 1997, and as endangered in 1998. Seismic operations near leks (the mating areas for Sage Grouse) were banned by the Alberta government in the early 1980s. So we at Nature Canada find it difficult to accept that the Sage Grouse has suddenly made oil and gas operations uneconomic.”
“Dialogue among stakeholders and governments is the way forward to conserve species at risk such as the Greater Sage Grouse , ensure resilient local communities, and build a sustainable economy.”
Read for the full article here.
