Alberta’s Cancelled Coal Leases Called a ‘Trick’
An ex-deputy minister terms yesterday’s step back ‘misleading.’ And it won’t deter a court challenge by ranchers and First Nations.
Tyee contributing editor Andrew Nikiforuk is an award-winning journalist whose books and articles focus on epidemics, the energy industry, nature and more. SHARES ‘The government didn’t follow the rules when they rescinded the Coal Policy,’ says Alberta rancher Mac Blades, among those asking the court today to reinstate legal protections of Rocky Mountain slopes from open-pit mining.
Photo by Callum Gunn.
Caught off guard by the fast-growing grassroots opposition to vast expansion of open-pit coal mining in the southern slopes of the Rocky Mountains, Alberta’s government announced yesterday it would cancel 11 newly-issued coal leases covering 1,800 hectares.
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The Alberta government’s inquiry into alleged foreign-funded campaigns against the province’s energy sector spent approximately $97,560 commissioning reports critics say downplay the climate crisis and veer into conspiracy.
“My jaw hit the floor pretty hard,” said Martin Olszynski, an environmental law professor at the University of Calgary who reviewed the reports as a participant in the inquiry.
The reports were posted to the website of the Public Inquiry Into Funding of Anti-Alberta Energy Campaigns late Wednesday. The inquiry’s website says the reports don’t represent “findings or positions taken by the inquiry.”
One report is authored by Barry Cooper, a University of Calgary political scientist with close ties to the climate denial group Friends of Science, which has claimed climate change is caused by the sun. In it, Cooper questions without evidence if First Nations opposed to fossil fuel extraction were “coerced or bribed by environmentalist missionaries