kootzie on March 19, 2021:
Tainted apologism for unrestrained assaults on Alberta by a hired petro-stooge who will write anything to carve off a chunk of the project management pie.
I challenge you to fabricate some disingenuous dishonest rationalizations for the conduct of the YouSeePee in their secret collaboration with foreign agents to assault the eastern slopes with very little net ROI
They conspired and colluded with foreign corpirations to:
– summarily rescind, with zero public consultation, the long standing Coal Policy which was the subject of extensive consultation. That is a flagrant Act of breach of trust and derelection of fiduciary duty-of-care.
– summarily rescind the water licenses to give priority access to foreign coal corpirations which have a horrendous environmental record to use the cleanest water in Alberta to wash toxic contaminents out of the coal and discharge that effluent into the watershed
plus expose all the rubble heaps to ongoing leaching and acid mine drainage forever
– Teck has spent over $1Billion attempting to mitigate the damage on the ElkValley Coal Sewerage – unsuccessfully.
Let them clean up the Elk Valley to baseline conditions First
– coal leases were given away practically for free. It would have been more honest to literally have charged $1. That paltry fee didn’t even cover the cost of the Apparatchiks and interest-conflicted Ministers to push the paperwork through
-1% royalty is a literal middle-finger poke in the eye to Albertans The only reason it isn’t lower is the assholes can’t do fractions. The very premise that whatever the value of the coal as a natural resource might have is zero inherent value – 100% is attributable to the corpirate extraction.
That is literally white-collar crime – malfeasant misappropriation of public resources misdirected to private/ corpirate accounts. You personally are undoubtedly an uncritical sycophantic supporter of supposiTory legacy of reduction of royalties on the PetroRacket. Even there they weren’t dropped to 1%.
As a credulous unquestioning uncritical sycophantic cheerleader of this Coal-assault on the Eastern Slopes YOU own all this shit.
I challenge you to scrape together what little moral ethical integrity might yet cling to that meatsuit and provide some coherent intelligent evidence-based argumentation for how this is truly a benefit to “All Albertans”
If I have a treasure buried on my land and you can excavate it, at minimum we’ll split it 51/49. Your proposal that I accept 1% is criminal
kootzie’s excellent comment is to the BOE Report propaganda column below
Coal development is positive for Alberta by Yogi Schulz, March 16, 2021, BOE Report
Recently proposed coal developments in southern Alberta have raised concerns about the associated risk of damage to:
- The local environment, especially water quality.
- Wildlife, especially at-risk species.
- Progress on addressing climate change, especially the additional greenhouse gases that the coal consumers will produce.
Forgotten in the pre-occupation with these risks are the valuable benefits the proposed coal developments offer Albertans at a time when:
- Employment at a time of record-high unemployment.
- Investment at a time of record-low investment.
- Tax revenue at a time of record-high public deficits and debt.
The developers of the coal mines have made commitments to globally-accepted best-practice operating methods. These commitments comply with the strict regulations and guidelines in place in Alberta. Various exaggerated risk assertions have drowned out these commitments. These commitments include:
- State-of-the-art water management to avoid harming water quality and avoid taxing the Old Man River watershed.
- Significant dust mitigation during operation.
- Ongoing wildlife monitoring and protection during operation.
- Extensive site reclamation to restore the mined areas for wildlife and recreation after mining.
Alberta is fortunate to have significant coal reserves to mine for the economic benefit of Albertans and coal consumers.
“Most Albertans agree that economic development and responsible environmental stewardship go hand in hand. I believe that the current suite of policies in place concerning coal development has struck the right balance,” says Whitney Issik, MLA for Calgary-Glenmore.
What views do you have about the proposed coal mines and their plans to support the economy and minimize adverse impacts on the environment? Let us know in the comments….
Refer also to:
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Teck to appeal Washington river cleanup ruling
Teck liable for Columbia River clean-up in Washington state, judge rules
Teck Resources Admits Polluting Columbia River For 100 Years; Damage To Be Assessed