INFONORTH • 453 Habitat and Movement Ecology of Grizzly Bears in the Mackenzie Delta, NWT
pipeline construction was delayed following Thomas Berger’s recommendation for a 10-year moratorium so that Native land claims could be settled. Today, the Mac-kenzie Delta is the proposed site for the new Mackenzie Gas Project, which will include an increase in the number of exploration and product...
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| Summary: | pipeline construction was delayed following Thomas Berger’s recommendation for a 10-year moratorium so that Native land claims could be settled. Today, the Mac-kenzie Delta is the proposed site for the new Mackenzie Gas Project, which will include an increase in the number of exploration and production wells and the construction of a pipeline and gathering system with associated facili-ties, as well as airfields and winter and all-weather roads, and result in landscape-level changes (Imperial Oil Re-sources Ventures Limited, 2004; Cizek and Montgomery, 2005). Wildlife managers and the affected communities are concerned that sensitive species like the barren-ground grizzly bear (Ursus arctos) could be adversely affected by increasing oil and gas development. Historically, grizzly bear declines in North America have resulted from the |
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