When the current Alberta government tried to repeal a
piece of legislation restricting coal mining in the Rockies, Canadians of all
varieties banded together to object.
The idea of exploratory metallurgical mining pits opening
in the most iconic of Albertan landscapes—the mountains—has seen nothing more
than unprecedented mobilization from the public.
Threatened wildlife, First Nation lands, popular
recreation sites, the headwaters of a principal freshwater source for
communities, and grazing lands used for generations by ranchers typify the
eastern slopes of the Rockies, all labeled as Category 2—or unavailable for
mining development—under the 1976 law the government sought to dispel…..
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