Sunchild First Nations. Video of First Nations speaking to the lack of consultation on the Bighorn proposal.
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Danielle Smith interviewed Harvey Locke on 1/11/19 and he provided an explanation as to why the Bighorn proposal was so important for wildlife and why use should be restricted along with development . He also spoke to the insane idea that land needs to be "connected".
BIGHORN: THE DECEIT AND MISTRUST. Watch this video to learn how Shannon Phillips has continued to lie to Albertans about the Bighorn Park proposal.
BIGHORN: The BIG Lie. This is an excellent video that documents the lies behind the Bighorn Park proposal by Notley. It is NOT a small group of people who oppose this, it is the majority of Albertans. Watch and learn more about the truth. Back in 2010 Barrack Obama issued a memorandum that directed the Department of Interior to create landscape conservation cooperatives across the United States. In the U.S. the northwest cooperative included a partnership with the Canadian government. This was done without any Provincial or Congressional authority. One Province affected by this was Alberta which is included in the Great Northern Landscape Conservation Cooperative (GNLCC). GNLCC is a partnership between governments, environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGO), and land trusts. In Canada this includes the Alberta and British Columbia governments. In these partnerships it is the goal to place as much land as possible into protected status or conservation, especially targeting land that sits between existing protected areas such as Jasper and Banff. This creates their idea of “connectivity”, by connecting the protected areas together. More specific details about the GNLCC can be found here. At that time, Alberta Environment and Parks (AEP) was known as Alberta Environment Sustainable Resource Development (ESRD) and was a GNLCC member. When Shannon Phillips came into office in 2015 the name was changed to AEP. Since 2010 the Canadian government has been participating in the GNLCC. The GNLCC has been primarily directed by the Steering Committee (SC) which developed goals and objectives for conservation. One of the earliest participants on the GNLCC Steering Committee (SC) was Ron Bjorge from the ESRD as Director of Wildlife. Mr. Bjorge was also a previous member the the Alberta Chapter of the Wildlife Society, a ENGO, along with Lorne Fitch who works with Yellowstone to Yukon (Y2Y) and Simon Dyer of the Pembina Institute. Other associations he has is the Nature Conservancy, Ducks Unlimited, and the Canadian Wildlife Federation. Another Canadian who served as a proxy SC member in 2010 was Rick Blackwood who was listed as the Southern Rockies Area Manager. At that time he was also serving as the Assistant Deputy Minister in the Fish and Wildlife Division, later moving to Assistant Deputy Minister, Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development. and finally, his current position of Assistant Deputy Minister, Strategy Division Environment and Parks. Mr. Blackwood has been lurking around at meetings on the Bighorn Park proposal. His job is strategy. Does that include strategizing how to manipulate Albertans into believing they have had any involvement in the Bighorn park proposal, convince them they are being listened to or convincing them what a great idea the Bighorn park is, or how to further implement GNLCC goals of placing all land between protected areas such as Jasper and Banff into protection? On the AEP website there isn't even a clear description of what the Strategy Division is or what his job entails. Perhaps the best description of his job comes from the Canadian Institute where he is "responsible for strategic relationships and engagement, strategy development and foresight, systems thinking and design and the ongoing integration of the various elements of Environment and Sustainable Resource Development". Perhaps he is lurking around to develop those strategic relationships and engage with those who oppose the park, then further strategize how the park can be integrated into policy element to element. Connectivity is why the Bighorn is such a targeted area, and Mr. Blackwood is part of that connectivity agenda given his background with the GNLCC and Wildlife Society. In later years it was Ian Dyson from the ESRD who participated in the GNLCC (pg 15). Below is a PDF summary of one of the initial GNLCC meetings in 2010, laying out the beginning strategy for landscape conservation, a "framework". Both Blackwood and Bjorge can be found as SC participants on page 20. They are all friends. Yellowstone to Yukon, Wilderness Society, Nature Conservancy, Alberta Land Trust, governments, and so many others attend conferences, network with each other, and their only goal in mind is taking your right to use your land away from you. Get to know those players, and their connections. It makes one wonder which one has an inside to Wikipedia to distort the truth there. Perhaps part of Mr. Blackwood's strategy and his continued connections with Simon Dyer? |
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