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 and my family frequently use the streams, rivers and lakes that are filled by the run off from the mountains. Coal mines (and other mechanical methods of extracting underground minerals etc.) are detrimental to this water source that so many of us rely on. I do not trust CEOs of billion dollar companies that say they will not pollute, that simply is not something they can or should say-it’s all lies.
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