Environment committee  It could be in the billions of dollars.

Environment committee  There are many issues that lead to it, but the ultimate cause is the industrial development on the landscape. The proximate cause may be a wolf killing them because of the way the landscape has been changed. There are many reasons for caribou decline but the ultimate cause—and in

Environment committee  I'm saying there are biological factors, but that's not the caribou's fault. You still have to go to the ultimate cause of the decline. That's like saying our bodies don't tolerate smoking very well....

Environment committee  Well, I'm not going to comment specifically on the bombing, but I'm saying that for the vast majority of caribou in Alberta, it is industrial development.

Environment committee  Well, you have to separate out northeastern Alberta from the military range. If you look at Global Forest Watch's report, the government's own study on the Athabaskan regional plan, and even Shell's own study, they show that the industrial footprint exceeds what caribou can toler

Environment committee  I just think we need to do a lot more. No less a person than former Premier Lougheed, who unfortunately passed away, said we needed a moratorium on oil sands development. It's not saying no to oil sands. It's saying, let's stop until we get it right and rethink this for all sorts

Environment committee  I don't know about nothing, but certainly what I call industrial scale harvest, industrial development, is incompatible with some species like caribou and sage grouse. I think the research is quite clear on that point, and it does contribute to our protection of biodiversity, if

Environment committee  I think we're trying, but we're certainly not meeting what the people of Canada have said they want. Provincial and federal governments had set targets, and whether they're IUCN or other targets, whether it's species at risk, we're not meeting our commitments there. So I think on

Environment committee  Caribou are facing an onslaught in Alberta of the double jeopardy of large-scale forest extraction as well as oil and gas development. The layering of those two things on the landscape is just too much for them, so their populations are declining. As I said, the oil and gas indus

Environment committee  Certainly. As a review of federal lands, how they contribute to assisting with, for example, carbon sequestration and things like that, I think it should be rolled into your work. It's a big topic, so I'm not sure—climate change as a whole—but maybe parcel it out and see what c

Environment committee  On industrial development in a number of caribou ranges. We've far exceeded the amount of development that's allowable under the goal.

Environment committee  I think I've covered it. But the key take-away is an assessment of all federal lands, and before you're disposing of any federal lands or transferring them, there should be an assessment of how they're contributing to your biodiversity and whether you want to get rid of them.

Environment committee  Sage grouse, it's a sad story. It should be at the top of mind of every Canadian because we're just about to lose that species in Canada.

Environment committee  To protect the Govenlock pasture as a start, and work to get industrial development structure out of the landscape.

Environment committee  Yes, the Alberta Wilderness Association has a whole pamphlet on it. The network means you have core areas that are protected from industrial development, but if that's all you have of these core areas, then it's not going to be enough. Mr. Sopuck talked about other things on the