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Author of the article: Roxanne Dautremont Publishing date: Apr 23, 2021  •  3 hours ago  •  1 minute read  •  Article content Like many Albertans, I headed out to the mountains one recent weekend, struck again by the forces that created these mountains and waterways. Albertans’ reaction to the rescinding of Lougheed’s Coal Policy was visceral and continues to reverberate beyond our borders. According to David Luff, a consultant who worked on the 1976 coal policy, its creatio...

Typical: Soho Theatre On Demand | Review February 25, 2021 Last updated: March 14, 2021 A black man is preparing to head out to paint the town red (this was in 1998, before anyone responds with questions about the legality of leaving one’s house to socialise). As is the case with too many black people’s stories, this is only going to end one way: badly. But this is not, despite the show’s title, a typical case of verbal abuse and a bit of argy-bargy in some nightclub. Some people even th...

The highly unpopular premier also characterized opponents of coal mining as urban snobs even though the majority of the opposition has come from his party’s angry base: ranchers, farmers, landowners and rural towns and municipalities. The government’s abrupt change of course follows weeks of protests from hundreds of thousands of Albertans from all walks of life and all political parties. They raised concerns about water security, selenium pollution (a legacy of open-pit coal mines), and th...

How Alberta’s energy and environment ministers misled on open-pit mining plans. Tyee contributing editor Andrew Nikiforuk is an award-winning journalist whose books and articles focus on epidemics, the energy industry, nature and more. SHARES Alberta Energy Minister Sonya Savage with Premier Jason Kenney at a 2019 press conference. Neither made a public appearance in the face of a public backlash against the government’s easing of coal mining. Photo by Jason Fra...

I feel the government is trying to trick Albertans: Former civil servant on sudden coal lease cancellations David Luff, who helped implement Albertas Coal Development Policy in 1976, says the UCP government isnt being forthright about what its now doing with coal in the province. Social Sharing CBC News · Posted: Jan 19, 2021 1:07 PM MT | Last Updated: January 19 File photos of coal mining operations in Wyoming, at left, British Columbia, at right. Alberta has cancelled a policy that had bee...

Alberta’s Cancelled Coal Leases Called a ‘Trick’ An ex-deputy minister terms yesterday’s step back ‘misleading.’ And it won’t deter a court challenge by ranchers and First Nations. Tyee contributing editor Andrew Nikiforuk is an award-winning journalist whose books and articles focus on epidemics, the energy industry, nature and more. SHARES ‘The government didn’t follow the rules when they rescinded the Coal Policy,’ says Alberta rancher Mac Bla...

Alberta Energy Minister Sonya Savage addresses the attendees while Tom Olsen, Managing Director of the Canadian Energy Centre, looks on at a press conference at SAIT in Calgary on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019. File photo by The Canadian Press/Greg Fulmes First Nations, ranchers, municipal officials and environmentalists hope to persuade a judge this week to force Alberta to revisit its decision to open one of the provinces most important and best-loved landscapes to open-pit coal mining. At least ...

First Nations, ranchers, municipal officials and environmentalists hope to persuade a judge this week to force Alberta to revisit its decision to open one of the province’s most important and best-loved landscapes to open-pit coal mining. At least nine interveners will seek to join a southern Alberta rancher’s request for a judicial review of the […]

First Nations, ranchers, municipal officials and environmentalists hope to persuade a judge this week to force Alberta to revisit its decision to open one of the provinces most important and best-loved landscapes to open-pit coal mining.

First Nations, ranchers, municipal officials and environmentalists hope to persuade a judge this week to force Alberta to revisit its decision to open one o