Healthy headwaters are essential public infrastructure. Just like hospitals, schools, and roads, our communities cannot function without them. These slopes store, filter, and release the water that sustains our farms, rivers, and homes. But right now, short-sighted decisions are causing permanent damage to the very systems that keep our water clean and reliable.
WHAT'S PUTTING HEADWATERS AT RISK?
It is the cumulative impact of logging, road building, and industrial development happening all at once. Reactive measures are not enough. We need proactive protection before our water security is lost.
WHAT IS IN DANGER?
Water Security: The steady flow of clean water for drinking and agriculture.
Public Safety: Protection against expensive floods, droughts, and wildfires.
Future Prosperity: Long-term stability over short-term economic liquidation.
WHAT WE’RE CALLING FOR
We need a modern Headwaters Protection and Restoration Act. We demand enforceable legislation that:
Sets clear ecological limits for land use in headwater regions.
Manages cumulative impacts across the whole watershed, not just project by project.
Permanently protects critical areas from industrial disturbance.
Prioritizes the restoration of damaged lands alongside protection.
The Eastern Slopes are Alberta’s lifeline. Once they are destroyed, they may never fully recover.
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I'm supporting this cause it's common sense. Rural and urban communities alike depend on a stable water system. Alberta's billion dollar agri-food industry needs a source of reliable uncontaminated water. We've got an abundance of wild, pristine landscapes, the envy of the world and the basis of a thriving recreation industry. Why the heck would we let corrupt moneygrabbers destroy our heritage lands, our livelihoods, our water, our Treaties? Why are politicians handing these things over for cheap to foreign investors? I thought they were all about sovereignty. Unless- do they have a finger in the pie? A few kickbacks, friends in high places? Even Ted Morton used to be against selling off the Eastern Slopes. Are you guys still friends? Have the politicians set foot in their rural constituencies lately? Probably just still scraping them off their wingtips from the last time. Man up. Stop playing stupid games with Albertans. Or better, just get out of the way of the real people doing the real work.
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