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People Power Wins: Alberta Reverses Course on Coal Mining Atop Rocky Mountains
Feb 22, 2021
When the current Alberta government tried to repeal a piece of legislation restricting coal mining in the Rockies, Canadians of all varieties banded together to object.
The idea of exploratory metallurgical mining pits opening in the most iconic of Albertan landscapes the mountains has seen nothing more than unprecedented mobilization from the public.
Jordan Grider
Threatened wildlife, First Nation lands, popular recreation sites, the headwaters of a principal freshwater source for communities, and grazing lands used for generations by ranchers typify the eastern slopes of the Rockies, all labeled as Category 2 or unavailable for mining development under the 1976 law the government sought to dispel.