Alberta coal fiasco unearths billionaire power grab

Copy of an email sent to Premier Danielle Smith of Alberta, with a copy to Pierre Poilievre of the Conservative Party of Canada 

Dear Premier Smith

You have a stepson. Is this your legacy to him? 

Excerpt of Post from David Susuki

 
Alberta coal fiasco unearths billionaire power grab

 "Alberta’s government recently announced new regulations for renewable energy development. They include restrictions against wind or solar projects in areas with “pristine viewscapes” and farmland that needs protecting. According to the Globe and Mail, that’s reduced investment in new projects — in a province with abundant solar and wind capability and a once-booming industry.

Meanwhile, the government is about to open the Rocky Mountains’ eastern slopes in southern Alberta to Australian coal billionaires — even though most people in Alberta oppose coal mining there. On January 15, Energy Minister Brian Jean announced that the government would rescind three ministerial orders on coal, including an eastern slopes mining and exploration moratorium.

The proposed open-pit metallurgical coal mines wouldn’t just be a blight on “pristine viewscapes” and important farm and ranch lands, they would also place “numerous watersheds up and down the Rockies at permanent risk of environmental insults, including toxic coal dust, water contamination, strip mining, landscape destruction and toxic selenium pollution,” the Tyee reports.

Read the whole article on the Susuki Foundation Website