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With oilsands production expected to double within the decade, the draft Lower Athabasca Regional Plan has been announced to conserve more than two million hectares of habitat for native species. According to the Alberta government, it will increase recreation and tourism opportunities, plan for infrastructure and put strict environmental limits in place for air, land disturbance and water.


The plan considered input from an advisory council of individuals with broad experience in the region, and input from the public, municipalities, stakeholders and First Nation and Métis communities. It is the first regional plan developed under Alberta’s Land-use Framework.


“We are committed to the responsible development of the oil sands and all our natural resources and to managing the social and environmental impacts,” says Sustainable Resource Development Minister Mel Knight. “With this plan, we’re looking ahead more than a generation. It is government’s


responsibility to plan for the future and it is important that all Albertans have their say.”


Public input sessions were scheduled to take place in a number of locations through May 19.


Major additional areas of the Lower Athabasca’s land base are identified as new conservation areas, bringing the total for conservation and protected areas to more than two-million hectares of legislatively protected lands in the region – a 20,000 square-kilometre area three times the size of Banff National Park.


Ten new provincial recreation areas and six new public lands areas have been identified, including Lakeland Country as an important tourism destination. Government will work with First Nations on an access management strategy for the Richardson backcountry and to develop historic and cultural sites for tourism in the region.


The draft regional plan emphasizes that private landowners make decisions about how to manage their land consistent with existing provincial and municipal legislation. The draft regional plan does not change or


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Municipal governments maintain authority for local land-use planning and development within their boundaries, but will have to align planning and development decisions to achieve the outcomes established in the regional plan within five years.


The Government of Alberta also identified nearly two-million hectares of potential conservation areas in the Lower Peace Region, connecting to existing and proposed areas in the Lower Athabasca Region and Wood Buffalo National Park. The conservation areas in the two regions include part of the range and habitat areas for six caribou herds and will advance woodland caribou recovery efforts in Alberta. Work will begin on the Lower Peace Regional Plan in 2012.


Located in the northeast corner of Alberta, the Lower Athabasca Region covers about 93,260 square kilometres and contains most of the province’s oil sands, large tracts of Boreal forest and the communities of Fort McMurray, Bonnyville, Lac La Biche and others.


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