AWA News Release: “Potatogate” Continued: What We Have Here is a Failure to Communicate

There appears to have been a major failure to communicate within Alberta Sustainable Resource Development (AB SRD). A new report Canadian Biodiversity: Ecosystem Status and Trends 2010 was released by the federal, provincial and territorial governments last week. And yet the same Alberta government department (AB SRD) involved in this report is currently mired in the ‘Potatogate’ saga: the potential sale of public grasslands of continental conservation significance in the Bow Island area to grow potatoes.