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Originally Posted by Sliver
Animals only have about 700 other corridors to choose from. They'll adapt. And if they don't, meh. I'm don't want to lock myself in the crowded cage of Banff so, like, eight wolfs can run around poo-scootching their asses all over the forest.
I'm also not interested in being some elite by having a condo in Canmore when I want other people to be able to enjoy recreation there as well - I'm a strong supporter of building more affordable housing there. Too bad the NIMBYs stopped the TSMV.
I'm surprised at thoughts like this in Alberta. I hope you support all the pipeline protests across North America and the hamstringing of our industry to prevent more oil from getting where it needs to go because this is the same thing. If you're going to be consistent, I would think you would want to prevent nature from being jeopardized off the coast of BC and through their province, or down south on KXL, or Energy East and every other project that keeps getting ####-blocked. Like it or not, those pipelines carry a risk to the environment during their operating decades and particularly during their construction. You know, when they dig up thousands of kilometers of earth to build them.
If you do support the O&G industry in Alberta and its need to move its product east, west and south, then I would hope you'd also support Alberta's tourism industry. O&G may not be here forever, but sure as #### the mountains will be.
During O&G downturns everyone always complains that our province NeVeR dIvErSiFiEd during the booms. Let's remember the guys preventing us from growing our tourism industry by using 0.0000001% of the rocky mountains to build a couple more towns. I'm sure future generations will be super stoked we prioritized a heard of diseased elk over them instead of just moving the elk two mountain ranges over.
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No there’s a weird train of thought, but I’ll bite.
There are literally THOUSANDS of other towns you have to choose from to sip a coffee and eat a croissant. Matter of fact, we even have dedicated means of transporting our selfs from town to town.
The thing about wildlife corridors is that they aren’t just endless expanses of land that animals just decide to hop on over to the next one. Like, ####, you seriously think that all the animals that use the Bow Valley can just climb on up over those there mountains and setup shop? The entirety of the Rocky Mountains isn’t hundreds of Bow River valleys side by side, but like, no ####.
It’s not the % of land mass that makes rampant development the problems in our parks. It’s that the very same space we
want to use is
needed by the animals. Like, ####, just hop in to your car using one of the many highways we’ve already ran through these places to one of the many towns we’ve already built. Or grab a plane and go somewhere else…literally anywhere in the damn world.
But nope, the guy who throws knives in the trash yearly needs more convenient parking for his 19 passenger Telurideupmyass.
Oil and gas? You mean the thing that provides heat, energy and material to essentially allow everything in the world to function one way or another? Pipelines, the only viable way to move this essential stuff from one location to another? Yeah, I look at that through a different lens than mother####ers wanting to continue to risk the long term health of our wilderness because they want a backdrop for their holiday.