The Alberta government has recently restructured responsibilities for parks and environment. Click here for a brief description of the changes.
Environmental protection is only as good as the law on which it is based.
There are currently a series of attempts to revise our environmental laws before our provincial and federal legislative bodies. Alberta Protected Areas Legislation Alberta is in desperate need of new protected areas legislation. Many stakeholders and government officials have worked for years on this project. Unfortunately, all our good faith efforts have been blocked by a handful of government MLAs with an intransigent attitude in favour of resource exploitation at all costs. An extended review of the existing law and the long process aimed at bringing that law into the 21st century.