Three other ways of looking at what they're doing and why, is:
1) if you look at the provincial budget as a pie; health care, education, energy and infrastructure take up 90% of it. Anything to do with wildlife, the money is slim and every year they keep getting 0 increases or get cut back a little more. Their slice of the provincial pie is thinner than this line: l.
2) They can't do anything outright that costs extra money or interferes with the energy sector!
3) Rachael said, "We're not going to let the oil industry control us; like it did the Conservatives!"
Just wait for the next oil boom and see what happens to our wildlife when our population doubles! It's sad and I doubt if; at this point and time anything can save it!
