Larry Powell Powell is a veteran, award-winning journalist based in Shoal Lake, Manitoba, Canada. He specialize in stories about agriculture and the environment. For decades, he worked for broadcast outlets in all four provinces in western Canada. This included a 5 years stint as Senior Editor for CBC Radio News in Saskatchewan. He is authorized to receive embargoed news releases on important, global stories, through the Science Media Centre of Canada, the Royal Society, Nature Research and the World Weather Attribution Network. He's a member of the Science Writers and Communicators of Canada, the Canadian Association of Journalists and a past member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2020, Powell joined an international team of writers providing articles for the Swiss-based online journal, Focusing on Wildlife - celebrating the biodiversity of Planet Earth. In June, 2014, he was a panelist at a world conference in Winnipeg entitled Holding
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It is indeed sad and unfortunate for the endangered Sage Grouse species in Canada, that Peter Kent,in his former role, and previous Environment Ministers, did not initiate and do some "real" follow up action on this matter, like 10-12 years ago.
Will our Federal Environment Minister stand by her conviction to help save and preserve this most threatened species of grouse in Canada ? A million $ a year, gained in oil revenues , or vs: a bird, doomed by the mighty dollar, forever, to extinction, by humans.(Alberta city, oil company apply to court to quash sage grouse protection)
Personally, I very much fear that this creature of our world will very soon join the long list of extinction,as with the Passenger Pigeon, the Do- Do bird, the Labrador duck, the Great Auk and countless others that humans have managed to eliminate. I hope to be proven wrong.
It is sadly apparent that our so called Environmental / Conservation Ministers
during the years have characterized Rip Van Winkle on this file.
What are your thoughts on this, or do you really care.?