mitch mcconnell. because he has become target number one for donald trump. donald trump calls him the old crow. he attacks him. he is trying to recruit someone to run against him as leader in the senate. john thune is thinking about walking away from politics. that would be a blow to mcconnell as well. the last one is the republican party in the coal category. this is a party currently organized and led by a man who falsely claims that the 2020 election was stolen. we cannot lose sight of that. he is not only arguing it is stolen. he is working to put some place people, secretaries of state, lower level offices who favor the idea of the election being stolen and might reverse an outcome. and i think we can t lose sight of that. . not coincidental that mitch mcconnell is one of the few
for my full santa effect, jim. let s start, and zolan referred to this. first, joe biden. he starts in the high 50s, looks like he s getting the coronavirus back under control, the economy is starting to recover. he ends with omicron raging, with his approval rating in the low 40s. some good signs in the economy. but overall, a very tough year for the president. so coal. i will also put kamala harris in the coal category. for a lot of republicans zolan and erica just talked about. she has struggled with will the role as everyone always has. that is just the job of being vice president. i think she has struggled a little bit. the whole thing with biden s age. is he running again? and the other one getting coal,
How Alberta’s energy and environment ministers misled on open-pit mining plans.
Tyee contributing editor Andrew Nikiforuk is an award-winning journalist whose books and articles focus on epidemics, the energy industry, nature and more. SHARES Alberta Energy Minister Sonya Savage with Premier Jason Kenney at a 2019 press conference. Neither made a public appearance in the face of a public backlash against the government’s easing of coal mining.
Photo by Jason Franson, the Canadian Press.
Last week Alberta’s government tried to hide political reality by issuing statements implying the “passion” of citizens had convinced it to back off its efforts to bring open-pit coal mining to a vast, ecologically-vital portion of the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains.