ARTICLE · 16 APRIL 2013

Imminent Extinction Of Sage-Grouse A Red Flag: Oil Wins In Canada, Not Environment

Siskinds LLP

The pending extinction of the sage-grouse in Canada should act as a similar warning that our environmental laws, and their enforcement, are not keeping pace with the impacts of oil and gas development.

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In ecology, an “indicator species“ can act a red flag that environmental conditions are deteriorating. When the population of the indicator species declines, biologists who are monitoring the situation get a red flag that something is wrong.

By all accounts, the decline in the number of sage-grouse since settlers began arriving in Canada has been dramatic. The last naturally occurring sage-grouse in BC was shot in 1918. Elsewhere in Canada, its number have fallen each year. According to the Species at Risk Public Registry:

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Imminent Extinction Of Sage-Grouse A Red Flag: Oil Wins In Canada, Not Environment

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