Livingstone-Porcupine Archive
2011-12-02 AWA News Release: Livingstone Landscape Wins Reprieve from Transmission Lines
In a highly significant decision, the Alberta Utilities Commission (AUC) yesterday refused permission to Altalink Management Ltd. to build a new transmission line in the pristine landscape of southwestern Alberta’s Livingstone Range.
2011-12-01 AUC Decision 2011-468
Alberta Utility Commission (AUC) Decision 2011-468, denying permission to Altalink and AESO to build a new transmission line in the Livingstone hills.
2011-11-00 Values and Voices: Stewardship Priorities for the Southern Alberta Foothills
The results of the Southern Foothills Community Stewardship Initiative, a public dialogue led by the Pekisko Group and the Chinook Institute for Community Stewardship
2011-10-28 AWA Fights New Transmission Lines in the Livingstone
Wild Lands Advocate update, October 2011, by Nigel Douglas
2011-08-26 AWA disputes electricity operators’ claim that a 30 km transmission route shift is mere project evolution
The Alberta Utilities Commission (AUC) preliminary hearing for Alberta Energy Systems Operator (AESO) and AltaLink’s 240 kV transmission line in Southern Alberta wrapped up after its 2nd day, August 24.
2011-08-23 AWA at Hearing to Oppose New Transmission Line Construction in the Livingstone Region
AWA will today join local residents and landowners opposing rampant transmission line development in southwest Alberta’s Livingstone region. An Alberta Utilities Commission (AUC) hearing begins today in Pincher Creek to discuss preliminary issues in the application process by the Alberta Energy Systems Operator (AESO) and Altalink to build 240 kV transmission lines in this beautiful and pristine landscape.
2011-07-20 AWA Opposes New Transmission Line in the Porcupine Hills
AWA has registered its official opposition to plans by Altalink to construct substations and transmission lines in the Crowsnest/ Livingstone-Porcupine region. Alberta Utilities Commission will be holding a pre-hearing, August 23-25, to discuss preliminary issues in the application process.
2011-05-17 Micrex Magnetite Mine Application
AWA letter to Natural Resource Development Board, to register interest in Micrex magnetite mine proposal, which has now been referred to NRCB.
2011-02-02 Map: Altalink Fidler to Chapel Rock Transmission Project
Map of Altalink's proposed Fidler to Chapel Rock Transmission Project line in the southern Livingstone region
2011-02-02 Alberta Wilderness & Wildlife Defenders - Altalink Proposal
A proposed Altalink project to build new 240KV transmission lines in the southern Livingstone region would impose an appalling visual blight on a spectacular signature southern Alberta landscape. Public input may be invited on where the route will go: but whether or not the line is needed in the first place, and what the alternatives are, has never been publicly discussed. It needs to be.
2011-01-10 AWA Letter: Proposed Fidler to Chapel Rock Transmission Project
AWA letter to Premier Stelmach, opposing plans from Altalink to build new transmission lines in the Livingstone area.
2010-11-18 Southern Foothills Community Stewardship Initiative Overview
Overview of the Southern Foothills Community Stewardship Initiative (SFCSI), hosted by the Pekisko Group and the Chinook Institute for Community Stewardship. SFCSI is a citizen-‐based process to provide direction to provincial, municipal and non-‐government organization land use planning and stewardship efforts, in order to protect and enhance the integrity of the Southern Foothills landscape of SW Alberta.
2010-10-07 Proposed Magnetite Mine in the Livingstone Range
AWA letter to Premier Stelmach, expressing opposition to the proposed magnetite mine on the flanks of the Livinsgstone Range
2010-08 Wild Lands Advocate Update
Updates from August 2010 Wild Lands Advocate, including C5 Forest Management Plan Fails to See the Wood Beyond the Timber, Proposed Magnetite Mine Continues to Threaten Livingstone Range and No More Bull?
2010-04-06 Micrex Magnetite Mine
Letter from AWA to Premier Stelmach in opposition to a proposed magnetite mine on the edge of southern Alberta's Livingstone Range.
2008-08 Alberta’s Pine Trees At Risk – Are We Aiming At The Right Target?
Wild Lands Advocate article, August 2008 by Nigel Douglas
2008-04 Carnivore Corridors Threatened in the Crowsnest
April 2008 Wild Lands Advocate article by Barbara Janusz.
2007-07-16 The Changing Landscapes of the Southern Alberta Foothills
The Southern Foothills Study report. Includes a 50-year projection of the results of 'business as usual' on the landscape and a public attitudes survey.
2007-04-03 ENGO Letter to Premier Stelmach
A letter to Premier Stelmach from various ENGOs with concerns in the Southern Foothills calling for “a pause, or a ‘time out’ for many resource developments occurring now in the Southern East Slopes.”
