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Great morning rally at a #StampedeBreakfast, letting #Otoole and #Kenney know how we really feel. People brought lots of diverse concerns, but biggies were the treatment of #ABnurses and protecting our #EasternSlopes #Waternotcoal Of course, the @YYCRagingGranny were there 2! 
This is a good reminder that powerful vested interests don't cede ground without organized, collective action on the part of hundreds of thousands of people.1/n
#MountainsNotMines #WaterNotCoal #JustTransition #GreenNewDealNow
#MountainsNotMines #WaterNotCoal #JustTransition #GreenNewDealNow
Mary Ann Hitt reminds us that 12 yrs ago, climate & env health activists were told that the US would also be reliant on coal for electricity--just as we are told today that demand for oil will continue to grow. 2/n
The US relied on coal for 50% of its electricity. Today, that figure is down to 20% and falling. It can be done, when there is political will to mobilize the necessary resources. 3/n
Thanks for tagging me, @BartMLL.
I basically never use FB, but I'm on my (very old) laptop today.
Let's get some screen shots.
I basically never use FB, but I'm on my (very old) laptop today.
Let's get some screen shots.
"Today I decided to head up the Oldman to see what the coal companies have been getting up to. I forgot, however, that the forestry trunk road is closed at Dutch Creek each winter, ostensibly for wildlife protection. So I parked at the locked gate and started hiking."
#ableg
#ableg
"Newly gouged test pit for coal wayyyy up on the mountain ridge. Note coal dust deposited downwind on the snow."
#ableg #DefendABParks
#FiretheUCP
#ableg #DefendABParks
#FiretheUCP
Benga/Riversdale says: "The company has developed wildlife and fish monitoring programs to sustain those populations, and also has a plan in place to safely and effectively manage selenium." 1/n
calgaryherald.com/news/no-free-fā¦
@ABWilderness @cpawssab
calgaryherald.com/news/no-free-fā¦
@ABWilderness @cpawssab
"Monitoring" does not protect fish from selenium poisoning. Benga promises a lot of measures, most of which amount to experimentation or monitoring. The stakes are too high to approve another open pit coal mine on this basis. 2/n
Why do I say this? Because I read the submissions of the scientists to the JRP. You should read these, too, before you decide to take the proponents' promises at face value. That's what @Corblund did. That's why he said "I'm 100% opposed" to coal mining on the eastern slopes. 3/n
Jason Nixon's reassurances are not credible. Look at the evidence, Albertans, and not at the pretty words. First, Alberta does not have a "robust" environmental regulatory system. Is there one environmental lawyer in Canada who would agree with this? 1/n #abpoli
One conservation biologist? One landscape ecologist? One conservation association? One environmental policy expert? One authority on the ecology of the eastern slopes? 2/n @Ablawg @ABWilderness @cpaws
Do you want to ask some of the landowners who have abandoned well sites on their properties? Indigenous communities living downstream of the oilsands? Or maybe have a look at the Cheviot mine site? 3/n
This is a very informative and accessible (to non-scientists) explanation of how selenium gets into water, food, and animals, and how the Grassy Mountain coal mine would be likely to affect selenium levels in the Oldman River and throughout the watershed. 1/n
#Alberta #aboli
#Alberta #aboli
"[T]he top three sources of man-made selenium contamination worldwide in order of greatest to least are:
1. Mining
2. Irrigation
3. Feedlots
The Oldman River and South Saskatchewan watersheds already have large feedlots and supply irrigation." 2/n
1. Mining
2. Irrigation
3. Feedlots
The Oldman River and South Saskatchewan watersheds already have large feedlots and supply irrigation." 2/n
"If additional pressures from a new coal mine were added to these watersheds, this area would be unique in the world as having all three top contributors to selenium contamination." 3/n
@JonathanWNV @HMcPhersonMP @SPhillipsAB @row1960 @DrewPAnderson @Pembina @cpawssab
@JonathanWNV @HMcPhersonMP @SPhillipsAB @row1960 @DrewPAnderson @Pembina @cpawssab
Albertans have loudly, clearly, and in their thousands demanded that coal mining on the eastern slopes of the Rockies be stopped and prohibited.1/n @CBCFletch @DrewPAnderson @CanadianPress @globeandmail @JonathanWNV @HMcPhersonMP @ryanjespersen
@JenCrosby @660NEWS @RachelNotley
@JenCrosby @660NEWS @RachelNotley
More than 16,000 have signed a petition to the federal minister of Environment and Climate Change Canada.
petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Deā¦
(The petition closes Friday. Sign now!) 2/n
petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Deā¦
(The petition closes Friday. Sign now!) 2/n
Nearly 2,000 have written comments to the Joint Review Panel, with about 98 per cent of these opposing the Benga coal strip mine and other mining in the Rockies.
iaac-aeic.gc.ca/050/evaluationā¦
(Opportunity for comments also closes this Friday.) 3/n
iaac-aeic.gc.ca/050/evaluationā¦
(Opportunity for comments also closes this Friday.) 3/n
"Two-thirds of Canada's irrigated agriculture relies on waters from the Eastern Slopes, including the project region."
(Kevin van Tighem, landscape ecologist & conservation biologist, comment to the JRP for the Grassy Mtn coal mine project) 1/n
#WaterNotCoal @JonathanWNV
(Kevin van Tighem, landscape ecologist & conservation biologist, comment to the JRP for the Grassy Mtn coal mine project) 1/n
#WaterNotCoal @JonathanWNV
"Water is so scarce there has been a moratorium on new water licenses in the watershed since 2006." 2/n
@UAlbertaREES @UofA_EAS @ualbertaScience @usaskArtSci @WatershSentinel @battleriver @Oldmanwatershed @SouthSaskRiver @NiitsitapiWater
@UAlbertaREES @UofA_EAS @ualbertaScience @usaskArtSci @WatershSentinel @battleriver @Oldmanwatershed @SouthSaskRiver @NiitsitapiWater
Van Tighem lucidly sets out reason after reason why the coal mine on Grassy Mtn should NOT be approved. Read his statement here: iaac-aeic.gc.ca/050/evaluationā¦
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'This whole thing STINKS' - Mayor Craig Snodgrass from the @TownOfHighRiver talking about the @UCPCaucus decision to recisnd the 1976 coal policy without consultation with #Albertans last night in council meeting.
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#WaterNotCoal #StopGrassyMountain #ableg #UCPcorruption
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#WaterNotCoal #StopGrassyMountain #ableg #UCPcorruption
He also discussed the lack of transparency, environmental concerns, royalties, etc. The council then unanimously voted to send a letter to @jkenney requesting the IMMEDIATE reinstatement of the coal policy and which was rescinded on June 1 , 2020.
Further more, requesting that the Government Of Alberta
begin public consultation with Indigenous groups, Environmental Groups and all Albertans on any proposed revisions or replacement of this policy.
THANK YOU Mayor and council of @TownOfHighRiver!
begin public consultation with Indigenous groups, Environmental Groups and all Albertans on any proposed revisions or replacement of this policy.
THANK YOU Mayor and council of @TownOfHighRiver!
Kate Shakespeare to the JRP:
"Water and food are essential to life and rapidly becoming unstable sources due to climate change . . . The recent pandemic has shown us how tentative global supply chains can be . . . 1/n #StoptheBengaMine
"Water and food are essential to life and rapidly becoming unstable sources due to climate change . . . The recent pandemic has shown us how tentative global supply chains can be . . . 1/n #StoptheBengaMine
The changing of the coal policy was done without public consultation, as well as the weakening of many other environmental and land protections. Lack of transparency implies that the Alberta government suspects it would not have public support for these projects . . . 2/n
Alberta should be moving towards a sustainable future, providing jobs that are conducive with climate goals. Solar panel and wind turbine farms, even geothermal, are all greener energy sources that could provide jobs . . . 3/n
I took a drive down the 22 yesterday to check out a #monolith that popped up in the Crowsnest Pass area! Went to investigate, left realizing the @UCPCaucus is likely involved, in a bad way, as usual
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#monolithmystery
#FiretheUCP #ableg #WaterNotCoal #Alberta
More in thread š½
#monolithmystery
#FiretheUCP #ableg #WaterNotCoal #Alberta
If you haven't driven down the 22, it is gorgeous - rolling foothills, streams cutting through picturesque ranch land, and a rugged mountain landscape background. Near Maycroft provincial park, right near the Crowsnest pass is where this thing stands, approx. 12 feet tall.
It sounds like the Tin Man from Oz when you knock on it and looks to be made of shiny sheet metal. Seems to be mounted firmly into the ground, with no visible supports
Colton Vessey, who grew up in Okotoks and is doing a Ph.D. in environmental geochemistry, asks the govts of Alberta and Canada to "please do not allow new open pit coal mining operations in the Alberta Rockies or anywhere in Canada." 1/n
@HMcPhersonMP @JonathanWNV @CBCFletch
@HMcPhersonMP @JonathanWNV @CBCFletch
He writes that "it is extremely likely that toxic contaminants will make their way downstream from Gold Creek into the Crowsnest River and into the Oldman River, which is considered a blue-ribbon fishing watershed, but also is a water resource for many communities." 2/n #abpoli
Vessey is an expert in "contaminant mobility, mainly trace metal(loid)s (such as arsenic, selenium, vanadium)," and cites peer-reviewed research on the coal mine contamination of water with Selenium and nitrate. 3/n
