Martha Kostuch

Martha Kostuch (July 8, 1949, Moose Lake, Minnesota, United States — April 23, 2008, Rocky Mountain House, Alberta, Canada) was a Canadian veterinarian and an award-winning environmentalist.

[1] In her veterinary work, she identified reproductive and immunological problems among cattle to air pollutants, like sulphur dioxide, from the sour gas industry in the region.

[5] She campaigned to stop the building of the Oldman River Dam and followed with a legal campaign resulting in environmental improvements to the project when the dam was approved and a Supreme Court decision that environmental protection is in the jurisdiction of both the federal and provincial governments.

[12] On April 21, 2008, the government of Alberta announced an educational bursary to be established in Kostuch’s name and awarded annually.

The bursary is to fund people from non-governmental organizations for studies in a certificate course in consensus building.