Ricky Edda is a full-time trapper living in Fort Liard, N.W.T. He told CBC his trapline was destroyed last weekend by road work for an ongoing oil & gas reclamation project. (Anna Desmarais/CBC ) A trapper in Fort Liard, N.W.T., says his trapline has been severely disrupted this winter by road work for an oil and gas reclamation project in the area. Calgary-based Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. has begun work to decommission and close 13 old oil and gas sites, all located east of the Liard River. According to a reclamation plan on the Mackenzie Valley Land and Water Board’s website, this involves rebuilding an existing winter road for access to the sites. Fort Liard resident Ricky Edda lives and works full-time on his family’s trapline, which intersects with parts of the winter road from where it starts on kilometre 72 of the Liard Highway. Speaking to CBC on Wednesday (with his brother Leon interpreting), Edda said he had six traps and seven snares set by early December. Last weekend, he received a phone call while in town, telling him that a crew was going to plow the nearby winter-access road and he had to move his traps. However, […]
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