Brian Mason and Alberta's NDP want a more balanced approach, one that protects our environment, and ensures resource development will continue to fuel our economy into the future.

Liberals and Conservatives accept hundreds of thousands of dollars in political donations from energy companies who want to mine sensitive ecological areas. They can't be trusted to put the environment ahead of the needs of their campaign donors.

Liberals and Conservatives are on the side of big oil and other polluters:

• Alberta's natural areas have been neglected and put at risk with rapid rates of expansion and extraction of our natural resources at any cost.
  
• Liberals and Conservatives have aligned themselves with land developers, resource companies and industry resulting in the sacrifice of our natural areas and lack of integrated land and water use planning.

Brian Mason and Alberta's NDP are on the side of our environment.

• Put wildlife, water, air and natural areas back on the priority list. This includes implementing recovery plans for our threatened and endangered species while protecting the natural spaces where they live.
  
• Phase out mining, logging and drilling in protected areas.
  
• Meet the U.N. target of protecting at least 12 percent of Alberta's land area, ensuring all ecological areas are adequately represented.
  
• Work with local communities to promote the Yellowstone to Yukon Corridor, to maintain biodiversity in the Foothills Natural region.
  
• End privatization of provincial park operations, which has proven costly and inefficient.
  
• Ensure that tar sands clean-up and environmental protection happen while the resources are extracted.
  
• Establish a network of protected areas throughout the tar sands region.
  
• Place a moratorium on water withdrawal licenses until a Watershed Management Plan and conservation objectives are formulated for the Athabasca and Oldman Rivers.

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