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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 creation included a process, years of work, and significant public consultation. Even with the temporary re...

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 think that one hasn’t really lived unless one has been barred from at least one pub in one’s lifet...

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 the future of the province’s iconic eastern slopes. Landowner and conservation groups greeted today�...

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 Franson, the Canadian Press. Last week Alberta’s government tried to hide political reality by issuin...

'I feel the government is trying to trick Albertans': Former civil servant on sudden coal lease cancellations David Luff, who helped implement Alberta's Coal Development Policy in 1976, says the UCP government isn't being forthright about what it's 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 been in place since 1976 restricting open-pit coal mining in wide swaths the Rockies and Foothills...