Regulatory delay has stalled a proposed dam and dry reservoir on the Elbow River west of Calgary, with Kenney open to continuing project even as local UCP candidate calls for its cancellation
Fifth-generation rancher Mary Robinson on her property Moose Hill Ranch, along the Elbow river near the western edge of Calgary, AB., on March 22, 2019. Robinson is concerned about what will happen to her land if the Springbank Dam goes ahead.
“This river is an evil thing and it torments us all the time,” said Mary Robinson, a rancher who lives and works on 600 acres of land west of Calgary that borders the Elbow River. The land, where her family has ranched since 1888 and where she was born in a log cabin, would be submerged by the dam proposal.
The Springbank dam project would see the construction of a dry reservoir where excess water from the Elbow River would be diverted onto nearly 16 square kilometres of ranch land. The area, in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains west of Calgary, would absorb the water before it rushed into the neighbouring city of more than 1.2 million.
Speaking with reporters in Calgary on Thursday, Mr. Kenney said his party, if elected, would appoint an expert to look into the project and see why it has been delayed. The proposal was first given the green light by former Progressive Conservative premier Jim Prentice in 2015 and then also approved by Ms. Notley’s New Democrats after they won election later that same year.
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