Posted: Jan 19, 2021 6:00 AM MT | Last Updated: January 19
Marlene Poitras, regional chief for Alberta for the Assembly of First Nations, released a statement criticizing the province s handling of COVID-19 vaccine for First Nations on Jan. 18, 2020.(Submitted by Marlene Poitras) The province continues to make unilateral decisions on First Nations health with questionable First Nation involvement. How many times must it be said that sovereign First Nations must be involved in the decisions that affect them? Assembly of First Nations Alberta Regional Chief Marlene Poitras said Monday.
Poitras released a statement after Premier Jason Kenney announced that Alberta is expected to run out of vaccine doses by late Monday or early Tuesday, citing shortages of the Pfizer vaccine announced last week.
Alberta is planning new mountaintop-removal coal mines. Here’s what that looks like
Debate has swirled as Alberta opens up a large swath of the Rocky Mountains’ eastern slopes to new coal mining. B.C.’s Elk Valley offers a preview of what may come next Share A mine in B.C. s Elk Valley. Teck Resources owns and operates a number of metallurgical coal mines in the region that provide coal for use in steelmaking. As Alberta moves to make more of the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains open to coal mining, more mountain-top-removal mines could operate in the province. Photo: Callum Gunn
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