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Red Earth Sub-regional Plan public survey

Albertans can provide input on the draft Red Earth Sub-regional Plan and its regulatory details.

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Introduction

The Government of Alberta wants to hear what you think about the draft Red Earth Sub-regional Plan, its regulatory details and its approval as an amendment to the Lower Athabasca Regional Plan (LARP) under the Alberta Land Stewardship Act.

The Red Earth sub-region is located in the Lower Athabasca, Lower Peace, Upper Athabasca and Upper Peace regions. The government is proposing to adopt the plan and incorporate the regulatory details in amendments to the LARP. The Alberta Land Stewardship Act (ALSA) provides for a regional plan to “manage an activity, effect, cause of an effect or person outside a planning region until a regional plan comes into force with respect to the matter or person”. This allows the LARP to direct activities in the other regions.

This draft plan and its regulatory details are intended to guide land and resource management in the Red Earth sub-region of Alberta. The Red Earth Sub-regional Plan brings together approaches from land management, including landscape restoration, energy, forestry, access management and recreation and tourism to achieve the following outcomes:

  • Outcome 1 – Support economic opportunities that provide benefits to local municipalities, Indigenous peoples and all Albertans.
  • Outcome 2 – Consolidate and manage development to support landscape intactness and self-sustaining plant and wildlife populations, with a focus on species at risk.
  • Outcome 3 – Support recreational, cultural and traditional land uses, including the practice of constitutionally recognized rights in the sub-region, for the benefit of local people, Indigenous people and all Albertans.

Your feedback will help us understand how the proposed approaches may affect you and identify opportunities to improve the plan before it is finalized and approved under the Alberta Land Stewardship Act.

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All questions are optional – answer the ones that matter most to you.

The survey takes about 15 to 30 minutes to complete.

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Section 1 – Your feedback on specific aspects of the plan and its regulatory details

Landscape restoration

The Red Earth Sub region contains a high density of legacy seismic lines and other disturbances. The draft plan relies on clear restoration outcomes and timelines, with a focus on restoring legacy, abandoned and inactive footprint to support caribou recovery and a variety of future land uses.

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How supportive are you of managing landscape restoration in this way?

Energy

In the Red Earth sub-region the draft plan uses zonation to enable future energy development, including oil sands and emerging resources like lithium. It emphasizes managing the amount of footprint, reducing fragmentation and requiring restoration of seismic lines, roads and well sites over time to support caribou habitat recovery.

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How supportive are you of managing the energy industry in this way?

Forestry

The draft plan provides direction for forest management in the Red Earth, including encouraging aggregated harvesting, restoring temporary footprint and requiring timely restoration. These approaches are intended to reduce long term fragmentation and support caribou habitat and other wildlife values while allowing continued forestry operations.

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How supportive are you of managing forestry in this way?

Access management

The plan manages access in the Red Earth sub-region by reducing inactive roads. This approach aims to reduce landscape fragmentation while continuing to support economic activity and maintain flexibility for disposition and tenure access.

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How supportive are you of the proposed access management approach?
Place pins on the map to identify any road classification concerns you have with the primary road network. Roads within in situ project areas or within the White area are not included in the road network.
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Recreation and tourism

The Red Earth planning area supports a wide range of outdoor recreation uses including activities like hunting, fishing, camping, watersports and off-highway vehicle use and overland opportunities. The area provides ample informal recreation opportunities to experience solitude while connecting with nature.

To grow tourism, benefit the economy and create employment in the sub-region, this plan identifies areas of focus for recreation management and trail planning intended to enhance user experience while minimizing impacts to sensitive areas.

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How supportive are you of managing recreation and tourism in this way

Lower Athabasca Regional Plan

The Red Earth sub-region is located within the Lower Athabasca Region. The Red Earth Sub-regional Plan and its regulatory details will be adopted and incorporated in the Lower Athabasca Regional Plan (LARP).

The LARP is an existing regional plan under the Alberta Land Stewardship Act (ALSA). ALSA provides these plans with the legal authority to enable implementation and enforcement of the plan’s direction. This allows for greater certainty to achieve the outcomes. This means:

  • the sub-regional plan will give direction for the Red Earth sub-region
  • regulatory details will provide some rules that will have legal power to be enforced

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Section 2 – Tell us about you

The following questions will help us better understand the input that we receive.

Of the following sources of information about the draft Red Earth Sub-regional Plan, which one has been your primary source of information?
What is your connection to the Red Earth sub-regional planning area?
Are you completing this survey as a representative of your company, organization or community?
Do you identify as Indigenous?
How was your experience sharing your input today?
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