I feel the government is trying to trick Albertans : Former civil servant on sudden coal lease cancellations
David Luff, who helped implement Alberta s Coal Development Policy in 1976, says the UCP government isn t being forthright about what it s now doing with coal in the province.
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Posted: Jan 19, 2021 1:07 PM MT | Last Updated: January 19
File photos of coal mining operations in Wyoming, at left, British Columbia, at right. Alberta has cancelled a policy that had been in place since 1976 restricting open-pit coal mining in wide swaths the Rockies and Foothills.(Matthew Brown/Associated Press, Jeff McIntosh/Canadian Press)
Posted: Jan 16, 2021 9:20 AM MT | Last Updated: January 16
More voices join Corb Lund s call to rethink Alberta s new direction on coal
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3:12Opposition to open-pit mining is starting to gain traction months after the Alberta government cancelled a decades old coal policy preventing development of land on the eastern slopes of the Rockies. Ranchers, municipalities and well-known Albertan musicians are sounding the alarm, asking the government to reconsider.3:12