In January, as the Globe and Mail put it in a colourful old-timey headline last week, Canada’s job market blew past the forecasts for the month. Unemployment also fell.
In Alberta, not so much.
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Frontier is among the most destructive oilsands projects assessed to date.
The project is large, both in production and surface disturbance, and the JRP concluded that numerous significant adverse environmental effects were likely, including on wetlands, old-growth forests, wetland and old-growth reliant species at risk (including Canada lynx and woodland caribou), the Ronald Lake bison herd, and the asserted rights, use of lands and culture of Indigenous groups who use the project area.
Both its surface water management and mine closure plans are currently prohibited by Alberta’s Water Act, in addition to being based on unproven long-term solutions.
These plans are directly relevant to cabinet’s decision, since tailings ponds affect migratory birds and endangered species, and are known to seep into groundwater and adjacent waterways, all of which fall under federal jurisdiction.
In letter to Trudeau, Kenney warns of ‘devastating impacts’ if Ottawa rejects Teck mine | CBC News
Hope he takes some of his buddies with him…
“Here in Alberta,” Kenney wrote, a cabinet rejection “of our
most important industry and could raise roiling Western alienation to a
boiling point — something I know your government has been attentive to
since the election.”
The premier said he’s frustrated by the
fact that some Liberal MPs have suggested the provincial cap isn’t the
benchmark for approving natural resources projects any longer — that the
federal government must decide instead whether the project is
compatible with the government’s goal of achieving net-zero emissions by
2050.
Forced to live on roadsides: the dark history of road allowances | CBC Radio
One really has to wonder about the mindset of the people who govern us. I often wondered what the Métis people were like, ever since watching movies about Louis Riel, when I was a kid. Then a couple of years ago i had to go do some work at the Elizabeth Metis Settlement which is south of Bonnyvile, AB.
Well, they were like most people when you get out of the big city centers. They were warm and friendly and everyone wants to feed you. Beautiful land up there. I could see my self spending days just hunting and fishing.
In out history, Métis people lived on the sides of the road illegally — although Thistle would argue it wasn’t illegal — and hunted using illegal traplines too. The circumstances they were forced to live in were also policed by the government, making it difficult for communities to survive.
It’s why few specifically Métis settlements remain today, save for a few areas in Alberta.
It’s a history, Thistle said, that is hardly taught because there isn’t much visible history remaining.
Wilkinson Wants More Detail After Teck Promises Net-Zero by 2050 – The Energy Mix
Teck’s announced commitment to hit carbon neutrality “across all operations and activities” by 2050 “appears to be in line with Canada’s commitment to reach net-zero emissions by the same date, and adds to the pressure Ottawa is under to approve the massive Frontier oil sands mine in the face of vocal opposition from environmental groups,” the Globe and Mail writes.