Alberta Surrenders to the Australian Coal Lobby

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Alberta Surrenders to the Australian Coal Lobby

[ https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2024/12/23/A ... ign=301224 ]

Andrew Nikiforuk - December 23, 2024 - The Tyee

QUOTE: "Smith’s government dumps a load of denial and new risks just before Christmas."

EXCERPT: "The Alberta government gave its citizens an Australian sack of “modern” coal for Christmas, as well as a load of misinformation accompanied by a mountain of disingenuousness.

In an abrupt news conference held Friday, Energy Minister Brian Jean and Environment Minister Rebecca Schulz declared the government was changing mining policy for Alberta because the world needed more metallurgical coal. . . . .

Dr. Bill Donahue, the former chief monitoring officer and executive director of science in Alberta’s environmental monitoring branch, and now an independent scientist in B.C., was equally blunt.

“It is all greenwashing bullshit,” Donahue told The Tyee. “It is a way to push the UCP’s original 2020 plan to open the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains to coal mining, and now we’ll make a case for it again.” He called the announcement “a farce.” . . . . "

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