Are you tired of being lied to by developers (and the city covering for them)?

So this happened in my neighbourhood and I'm still pissed about it.

EverRed Developers clear-cut an entire mature tree line next to Dr. Margaret Ann Armour School on Ellerslie Road — overnight, right before the first day of school. No warning to anyone. Birds and wildlife that had lived there for years got wiped out with zero notice, some dead birds turned up nearby, and honestly the whole street woke up to birds losing their minds over it.

What really pisses me off: when residents pushed back, the city told us the developer "confirmed" they consulted with the school and school board the whole way through. Cool story - except when we contacted the school directly, they said they had no say in it at all. So either the city's being fed nonsense, or someone's straight up lying to cover their ass.

Also convenient: the "environmental assessment" that supposedly proved most of these trees were dead? Not public. Can't see it. Just have to trust them. Meanwhile we've got Google Street View going back to 2015 showing this tree line green and fully leafed every single year. Doesn't scream "dead trees" to me.

This Developer has a ton of developments planned across Edmonton, so if they can pull this next to a school with zero accountability, it's not exactly reassuring for whatever neighbourhood is next on their list.

We put together a petition demanding the environmental assessment be made public, an investigation into the consultation claims, and real environmental review before any more of their projects move forward: https://c.org/mXtNwDKrhL

If anyone has photos of the trees before they came down, info on the development, or receipts on EverRed doing similar stuff elsewhere — PM me, genuinely want to hear it and can add it to the pile of evidence.