By Elona Malterre
Alberta’s new land-use system will impose strict rules on oil and gas development on the Rocky Mountains’ eastern slopes, curb urban sprawl and offer land-conservation incentives to landowners, says Alberta Sustainable Development Minister Ted Morton.
Alberta has reached a “tipping point” where the old way of doing things in the province won’t work anymore, Morton said in a talk to the Calgary Chamber of Commerce. “There are more and more people doing more and more activities on the same piece of land.”
Morton predicted that “almost no one will be completely happy” with the new land-use framework, which…
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