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Last week the Municipal District of Bighorn, Stoney Nakoda First Nation and the RCMP announced a coordinated program with TransAlta, ATCO and the Canadian Pacific Police Service seeking to dissuade people from trespassing to swim and jump from cliffs and bridges in dangerous areas of the Bow River.

Heading west to the Seebe Dam area for a day along the river could take a big bite out of your wallet

  CALGARY -- Increased enforcement and heftier fines are being introduced to prevent trespassing on the Stoney Nakoda First Nation along a stretch of the Bow River that has proven deadly. The Municipal District of Bighorn, Stoney Nakoda First Nation, RCMP, TransAlta, ATCO and the Canadian Pacific Police Service have partnered for an initiative designed to thwart illegal activity downstream of the Seebe Dam, approximately 60 kilometres west of Calgary. "Driven by social media and a disregard for the wellbeing of themselves and their friends, people are unnecessarily putting their lives at...

The picturesque spot is west of Calgary, right off of Highway 1A, which Bighorn Reeve Dene Cooper says is an industrial corridor first, and passenger traffic route second.  "You may not realize how few choices one of my industrial professional truck drivers has when he's coming down a hill and loaded," Cooper said. "We have to realize that we're not the only ones on the road, and not everybody's going skating today." Then there's the concern over ice conditions, which Cooper says can change from day to day. Gap Lake is just off Highway 1A, about 80 kilometres west of Calgary.(Helen Pike/CBC...