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Media Coverage: Rosenberg Forum on Mackenzie Basin

Published: 
September 7, 2012

McLeod_RosenbergPresented by the Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation and Simon Fraser University's Adaptation to Climate Change Team (ACT), the prestigious Rosenberg International Forum on Water Policy convened in Vancouver, BC from Sept. 5 to 7, 2012 to discuss the national and global importance of the Mackenzie Basin and what can be done to protect it going forward. The Forum’s goals included identifying legal and scientific principles relevant to the processes leading to a coordinated basin-wide approach to management, as well as recognizing knowledge gaps.

Forum participants included renowned Canadian and international water experts and welcomed the Honourable Bob McLeod, Premier of the Northwest Territories, and The Honourable Michael Miltenberger, Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources to provide presentations. Representatives from other jurisdictions were invited but declined. 

The Forum attracted international media attention, shining the spotlight on a watershed which encompasses 20 percent of our country but isn’t well-known to many Canadians.


Media Coverage for the Rosenberg Forum

The Globe and Mail
Mark Hume
Downstream of development, stakes are raised in NWT

The Canadian Press
Dene Moore
'Amazon of the North' in danger; Mackenzie River basin covers 20 per cent of the Canadian land mass, but there is no cohesive plan to govern its use or its future

Moore's article also appeared in the following publications:

Reuters
Alister Doyle
Canada's Mackenzie River needs aid as climate "refrigerator"

Doyle's article also appeared in the following publications:

eSource Canada Business News Network
David Nesseth
BC forum mulls joint governance for Mackenzie Basin protection

EFE (Spanish news agency)
Experts call for Prioritizing conservation Mackenzie River, Amazon North

Topic Area(s): Water