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Controversial caribou habitat for sale to energy industry

The province’s first petroleum and natural gas land sale of May is set for tomorrow, but this time there’s controversial pieces of land up for bid.

1,700 hectares north of Grande Cache will be auctioned off, of which 256 are classified as within important caribou range.

Over the past decade, the animals have seen a 60 per cent drop in population and earlier this month, federal scientists ruled they should be assessed as endangered.

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