The Southern Alberta Council on Public Affairs welcomed Alberta Wilderness Association conservation director Ian Urquhart to a special edition of its YouTube weekly livestream speaker series on Monday to discuss his thoughts on the current coal policy review underway in Alberta.
Urquhart said, drawing on his decades of experience as a political scientist, the intentions of the government are always revealed in how it frames the questions it is asking Albertans to “consult” on.
In the case of the coal policy review, the government’s bias is obvious, he stated, when it drafts terms of reference around the policy review which precludes land use and water considerations from being part of the policy process.