Spot on, Lorne Fitch. I once asked private Impact Assessors in Lithuania why they didn’t face Alberta’s problem — a regulator whose prime directive seems to be playing maître d’ for speculative venture capital schemes, leaving taxpayers to foot the cleanup bill. They were astonished. That could never happen in Lithuania, they said, because all estimates of resources and profits that governments might risk land and rivers for are sent for blind, independent review. In other words, polluters must either contain the mess at the source or pay to clean it up out of revenues. They are not simply taken at their word that they can afford to do so. Instead, they must prove it to experts with the knowledge and independence to do a critical evaluation — people with no dog in the race, because the panel doesn’t know who the proponent is, and the proponent doesn’t know who is on the panel.
Cleaning up the AER wouldn’t take a policy miracle. What stands in the way is UCP ideology — one that treats rooted Albertans like aphids in an ant farm, while government and regulator play host to speculative capital. Alberta’s natural world is a public jewel, a store of immense wealth. To see it bartered away in this maître d’ routine is indefensible.
So write letters? Question their decisions? Hammer them relentlessly until they answer. It’s so bizarre it’s sick. Deliberately ignoring the responsibilities of his job
Wish I knew - people appear to want coal jobs no matter how it badly it impacts the environment. They’re paid off I would assume by Rhinehart and the UCP. They’re so corrupt it’s disgusting.
With all due respect Sheryl, that is all people have been doing since the Kenny government started this coal mining fiasco.
It was the federal government who intervened and shut him down.
At least, they shut down one Avenue but the Kenny regime continued the plan and left the door open until Danielle Smith came along.
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see that the AER is an absolute corrupt body and they bow to Danielle Smith who has proven very clearly that she is a little fascist wannabe.
Yesterday I was made aware of a YouTube video that points out quite clearly, the mayor and council of crows nest pass are equally corrupt.
My mother grew up in Coleman so I know the region well. Coal mining has been a primary source of employment there for a long, long time. How can we convince them to care for the environment with all the destruction this coal mining creates? It’s a massive problem and the corruption is clear and visible. They’ve got to create renewable engines that will create just as many valuable jobs without the environmental damage.
Spot on, Lorne Fitch. I once asked private Impact Assessors in Lithuania why they didn’t face Alberta’s problem — a regulator whose prime directive seems to be playing maître d’ for speculative venture capital schemes, leaving taxpayers to foot the cleanup bill. They were astonished. That could never happen in Lithuania, they said, because all estimates of resources and profits that governments might risk land and rivers for are sent for blind, independent review. In other words, polluters must either contain the mess at the source or pay to clean it up out of revenues. They are not simply taken at their word that they can afford to do so. Instead, they must prove it to experts with the knowledge and independence to do a critical evaluation — people with no dog in the race, because the panel doesn’t know who the proponent is, and the proponent doesn’t know who is on the panel.
Cleaning up the AER wouldn’t take a policy miracle. What stands in the way is UCP ideology — one that treats rooted Albertans like aphids in an ant farm, while government and regulator play host to speculative capital. Alberta’s natural world is a public jewel, a store of immense wealth. To see it bartered away in this maître d’ routine is indefensible.
The old saying “fox being put in charge of the hen house” comes to mind!
This is so concerning.
So write letters? Question their decisions? Hammer them relentlessly until they answer. It’s so bizarre it’s sick. Deliberately ignoring the responsibilities of his job
Wish I knew - people appear to want coal jobs no matter how it badly it impacts the environment. They’re paid off I would assume by Rhinehart and the UCP. They’re so corrupt it’s disgusting.
With all due respect Sheryl, that is all people have been doing since the Kenny government started this coal mining fiasco.
It was the federal government who intervened and shut him down.
At least, they shut down one Avenue but the Kenny regime continued the plan and left the door open until Danielle Smith came along.
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see that the AER is an absolute corrupt body and they bow to Danielle Smith who has proven very clearly that she is a little fascist wannabe.
Yesterday I was made aware of a YouTube video that points out quite clearly, the mayor and council of crows nest pass are equally corrupt.
How do you stop people like this?
https://youtu.be/OuLItToK1UM
My mother grew up in Coleman so I know the region well. Coal mining has been a primary source of employment there for a long, long time. How can we convince them to care for the environment with all the destruction this coal mining creates? It’s a massive problem and the corruption is clear and visible. They’ve got to create renewable engines that will create just as many valuable jobs without the environmental damage.