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By The Canadian Press

Small patch of native praire near Taber to be sold

Environment groups upset at plan to sell parcel of native prairie near Taber

Mar 17, 2020 | 10:40 AM

EDMONTON – The Alberta government plans to auction off a small patch of native prairie despite recent promises that no Crown land would be offered for sale.

The land near Taber is to go under the auctioneer’s hammer at the end of the month.

The land was part of a sale that was blocked in 2011 after a public outcry over the planned conversion of untouched grassland into a potato farm.

Environmental groups are angry that another bit of the landscape that once covered Alberta is to be sold off.

They call the sale a dangerous precedent and point out that less than two per cent of the province’s grassland is protected.

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Earlier this month, Alberta Environment and Parks Minister Jason Nixon told the Calgary Herald that no Crown or public land would be sold.

A spokeswoman for the department says Nixon was referring only to Crown land that used to be a park.

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