Significant areas of the #EasternSlopes land were opened to coal leases, initiating a widespread response from concerned landowners, environmentalists, and #Indigenous communities. Due to public pressure, the 1976 #Coal #Policy was reinstated in early 2021 after cancelling eleven new coal leases. Four projects were exempted from the Ministerial order, two of which being Benga’s #GrassyMountain and Montem’s Tent Mountain coal projects.
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#DanielleSmith #UCP cabinet ministers defended #coalmines on #easternslopes at a recent town hall. my critique of #Alberta's poor environment reclamation of oil sands, #OilAndGas Wells! They will fail to protect our water and reclaim proposed coal mines!!
While you may be busy believing government decisions are beneath you, like I recently believed 🫠… 📢 Let the record show, as this may be the last time we are able to stop the United Conservative Party of Alberta from taking freshwater out of an already OVER ALLOCATED Old Man basin: 1️⃣ this👇is Professor James Byrne, of the The University of Lethbridge explaining the amount of liabilities the fossil fuel industry has created across British Columbia and Alberta. That the methods our government claims it will EVENTUALLY use to prevent our water from being poisoned TODAY are not real. That the UCP Government is ignoring peer reviewed science and audit review information that tells them their future solution is not real. 2️⃣ It is court-documented that the Eastern Slopes resource potential is likely only worth 2.5 years of total development, NOT 25 years worth of mining resource ahead. Thank you, Cornelis Kolijn for informing us court documented information is available to Premier Danielle Smith. Who’s role, along with Minister Brian Jean, is to MINIMIZE legal exposure to the Province, NOT aim to maximize it. ADD: no Premier Smith, lawsuits may only recover damages, not “proved potential” losses. There are not $14 billion lawsuits. 3️⃣ the exploration program, approved by the AER is completely unnecessary. There are more than enough wells already defining the site as Cornelis explained. 4️⃣there is no market for the resource and no revenue for the province worth any of this. Albertans voiced our opposition of coal mining across the political spectrum when voting for this government. Albertans were promised by UCP Ministers they would not allow coal mining to return. This appears to be nothing more than to test water theft and pollute while water is already scarce. #ForTheRecord If you live in Alberta, Saskatchewan, or Manitoba and have not messaged the Alberta government. Please do. Why? Because you need water 💦, too. Alberta is a headwater province and our leaders refuse to take this responsibility seriously. It’s time to stop taking from rather start restoring them. Albertans and Canadians first, not billionaires. #BadBusiness Copy, paste, edit, send #EasyPeasy [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Say “no” to foreign interests, minimal jobs, water harm and loss. Say “no” to their false promises and daily lies. #LaterIsTooLate #abpoli #cdnpoli | 15 comments on LinkedIn
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