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Neither likes the new federal Impact Assessment Act, which Alberta is challenging in court.
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Jason Kenney’s government argues in the Alberta Court of Appeal that the federal Impact Assessment Act shouldn’t apply to coal mining in the province. Former Green leader Elizabeth May assails the act for different reasons.
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All this week, the Alberta government will be in court challenging the constitutionality of the new federal Impact Assessment Act, with the goal of preventing Ottawa from assessing the impact of coal mining projects in the eastern slopes or new oilsands in situ projects. ....

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