Forest of Protest Page 4

This map of the northern portion of the area shows a heavy black line that I have drawn to show SaskPower's selected route. From all the alternatives available, this selection destroys the MOST FOREST, comes close to MORE HOMES , and goes through the MOST SENSITIVE areas. (Sensitive areas shown in red/ orange) In its selection of where to go westward across the highway, it specifically targets the area known as Friendly Forest. It needs to be noted that the forest area is densely populated with most holdings of 16 hectares / 40 acres [ 1/4 mile by 1/4 mile] while open areas (shown in yellow as low sensitivity) are large farm holdings with very few and widespread dwellings. SaskPower NEVER seems to accept that human residents are an important part of the environment that is affected by their power corridors!

This SaskPower map shows the final three options considered by SaskPower. They have selected the "Pink" route to the left, and ignored the route to the right. In doing so they have opted to push a huge corridor THROUGH an intact forest rather than going OVER open farm land away from peoples homes! A forest route in this area destroys 999 times as much land as a corridor over already opened land.

Each square represents 160 acres (Quarter Section), and is ranked as to environmental damage by a powerline corridor. A non-forest route would have an average negative impact of 3 out of 16 as compared to a negative imact of 14 out of 16 when going through the forest. This is SaskPower's own information!!