Benga/Northback, the proponent of the Grassy Mountain coal project, has received another setback. The Alberta courts dismissed its attempt to appeal the AER/JRP’s decision last year canlii.ca/t/jm1d3canlii.ca/t/k1lkk

Not Fit for Purpose: Oil Sands Mines and Alberta’s Mine Financial Security Program" (with @aleach.bsky.social@drewyewchuk.bsky.socialpolicyschool.ca/wp-content/u...#cdnpoli#ableg

Human history is not the story of a gradual path of progress, but the forensic reconstruction of a 50-car pileup of nonsense and errors.

Due to their belief that a carbon tax is communist ideology, the Conservative party voted against a free-trade deal with a country at war with Russia. I understand the historical process by which we got to this outcome, but reading about it feels like having a concussion. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

I assumed this was a joke, but I can't tell for sure after flipping theough the website...

From a Parks Canada 2022 impact assessment.

To protect the environment, staff was instructed not to stomp on the toads.

I wrote a thing about Alberta's "Tell the Feds" campaign: www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

Opinion: Alberta’s new ‘Tell the Feds’ ads are a naked ploy to unyieldingly serve Big Oil

Alberta’s ad campaign is an attempt to conscript Canadians in the province’s unyielding service to the fossil fuel industry

Good (and sad) eye, Drew. And if they did they’d only say axe the tax because it can’t stop wildfires. Because they can’t get their heads around a complex collective action problem, let alone notions of responsibility and how to use law and economics to address such. Systemic ignorance and denial.

Alberta government statement on wildfire season. It contains not a word about climate change. www.alberta.ca/release.cfm?...