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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’s announcement with skepticism.
“I’d call my response very guarded,” said Renie Blades, a third-generation rancher in Alberta’s foothills.
February is a busy month for New Bern, as history goes. I don’t know why. You wouldn’t find me making history on the coldest month of the year. Some samples:
In 1903 Gilbert Waters, began building the second Tarheel-made car: the Buggymobile, on February 6. He built it by cannibalizing the state’s first homemade car which he had also built, back in 1900.
Waters was a carriage-maker, working with his father’s Gilbert H. Waters Buggy Company, located where the fireman’s museum is today.
Waters dreamed of building a business making cars ever since he read of the Duryea brothers who built a car in Massachusetts in 1893. He watched the rattle-trap horseless carriages in Baltimore a little later and put his mind to building that car.