Fossils to Kitty Litter?

So I was sad to see this posted on a friend's facebook page yesterday.

Harvard-trained Archibald, an expert in the 50-million-year-old Eocene period, said one of his prime exploration sites near Cache Creek, B.C. called the McAbee fossil site allows commercial fossil hunting, roadbuilding and mining for cat litter.

"There are two claims on the McAbee, one by the fossil dealers and one by the miners who are grinding up the fossil-bearing shale," he said.

Archibald is calling on the government to assume ownership of the site, including the areas claimed by the fossil dealers and cat-litter miners.

"The province has ignored paleontology to a great degree (and) other jurisdictions have embraced it," he said.

At least with the story about the Allosaurus from yesterday we at least have an idea of what we are losing but with this operation who knows what we are losing.