Friends of The Medicine River Basin

So what do you think we would like to see out our living room window, a nice yellow canola field or gravel mining activities. No brainer SAY NO TO GRAVEL Mining in an Alluvial Aquifer.

So in our on-going struggle to get Alberta Environment to hear us, this shows up in today's news. Not confidence inducing --https://www.cbc.ca//documents-reveal-doubts-on-alberta-pla

We all know that once-in-a-century floods and storms are no longer once in a century. The impact of climate change means more intense floods, far more often. In this aerial photo we can see how gravel pits become lakes, trapping fish and damaging the natural underground water flows in the existing aquifer.