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Winners to be announced virtually June 9 at a free online event.
After promising a full-fledged public consultation on his widely condemned plans to open up the Rockies to Australian miners, the premier has now told Albertans that the review won’t include anything that matters like water and land use. Coal mining will be the only subject.
Breaking promises and betraying Albertans appear to be constant themes of Kenney’s government. Its coal saga is a prime example.
In 2017, the aspiring premier vowed to “get the Alberta government out of the business of business. because when politicians are risking your money instead of their own, you might as well send them to the casino. I mean, they have no incentive to get it right.”
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Today s action by the Kenney government is a betrayal of these Albertans.
Notley had asked the legislature to push the proposed legislation up the agenda to be debated on Monday night.
She said the debate was needed because drilling and road-building are going ahead on the eastern slopes of the mountains even as the United Conservative government says it s gathering public feedback on coal mines. The fact is, this is urgent, Notley told the legislature. We want to provide a forum for that discussion to be heard in this house.
The bill calls for cancellation of leases that were issued after the government scrapped a policy last May that protected a vast swath of summits and foothills along the western spine of the province.
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