West Fraser crews and machinery are right now (9:30 am Friday) on their way to drop a logging bridge across Allison Creek to enable the rape of Tecumseh Forest. A number of watershed defenders are converging on the site immediately west of Crowsnest Mountain to protest the illegal clear-cut scheme. RCMP members are on site to enforce a court order obtained by West Fraser.
The Rape of Tecumseh forest is an outrage to the citizens of Crowsnest Pass and to the Piikani Nation which was not allowed its constitutional right to consultation with respect to destruction of its ancestral lands.
Very, very sad.
What the hell is going on! This is the only forest between the Divide and Crowsnest Mountain, and it is somehow legal (????) for a logging company to clear cut it down to nothing? The Eastern Slopes are what, 15 or 10 Km wide in total (!) on the east side of the Divide at this point; lands barely able to sustain the Oldman Watershed as it is (arguably no longer able due to bad land development decisions and unchecked industry) and we would find ourselves in a situation of having a government authorizing this? Mostly bad on "us" - Albertans dogmatically voting conservative with little knowledge and engagement with what is going on. However, with the litany of unilateral acts of arbitrary harm done on Albertans in the last 3 years by Dictator Smith and her sycophants, I am angry at the UCP and their captured "Regulators". Not a single directive in Smith's so-called "Mandate Letter" to the Minister of the Environment to protect the Environment for the long term benefit of Albertans. All directives and every one, a different missive to find ways to use the environment to build out the Province. No common sense, no listening to science, no informational process. No First Nations genuine consultation or any consultation at all. No wonder this extreme destruction of the environment. Kill first, divide and distract later. Disgusting.