For first time, Alberta premier says open-pit or strip mining at Grassy Mountain will not be allowed because of selenium risk to water. Let's hold her to it!
Word play. Obfuscation. Doublespeak. Bafflegab. Whatever you want to call it. "There are a variety of technical techniques: highwall, contour mining, auger mining, self-contained progressive reclamation mining, etc. The important part for our purposes is that we want to minimize the movement and displacement of overburden. We don’t want overburden to leach out selenium,” a spokesperson for Energy and Minerals said. https://www.lakelandtoday.ca/local-news/strip-mining-to-be-allowed-under-albertas-new-coal-rules-10076076
I let CTV know that they should correct that misleading quote of yours; they told me that you should reach out to them directly.
That misleading quote was a biggie! CTV needs to publish a correction
Word play. Obfuscation. Doublespeak. Bafflegab. Whatever you want to call it. "There are a variety of technical techniques: highwall, contour mining, auger mining, self-contained progressive reclamation mining, etc. The important part for our purposes is that we want to minimize the movement and displacement of overburden. We don’t want overburden to leach out selenium,” a spokesperson for Energy and Minerals said. https://www.lakelandtoday.ca/local-news/strip-mining-to-be-allowed-under-albertas-new-coal-rules-10076076
What will they do with the waste rock? Build new "pit heaps"?