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Robson Fletcher

@CBCFletch

9 Feb

In a low-quality video that spread on Twitter last week, Kenney was misheard as saying: "Some people have said our gov't repealed the 1976 coal policy that banned coal mining in the Eastern Slopes. We did no such thing."

That's not what he said.

Here's a better version...(🔊⬆️)

As you can hear above, what Kenney actually said was: "It did no such thing."

The "It" refers to the coal policy and the "thing" refers to the banning of coal mining on the Eastern Slopes.

Kenney is technically correct here, but he's also attacking a bit of a straw man...

It's true that the Coal Policy didn't outright ban coal mining across all of the Eastern Slopes of the Rocky Mountains.

What it did was heavily restrict open-pit mining in large sections of the Eastern Slopes.

What's the difference?

Let's split that hair...

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Robson Fletcher

@CBCFletch

8 Feb

Been a bit distracted by coal today so these are late but here are are the latest COVID-19 data for Alberta:

• 269 new cases (351 net w/adjustments to past days)
• 6,196 active cases
• 432 in hospital, 76 in ICU
• One more death. 1,710 total

Context: cbc.ca/news/canada/ca…

Testing data:

• 4.35% positivity provincewide yesterday

• North zone still has highest average positivity over past week, at above 7%

Geographic data:

• Active cases by zone

• Top 10 local health areas for active cases

• Top 10 local health areas for active-case RATES (adjusted for population: figures show active cases per 100,000 people)

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Robson Fletcher

@CBCFletch

7 Feb

Here are the latest COVID-19 data for Alberta:

• 352 new cases (351 net w/adjustments to past days)
• 6,242 active cases
• 434 in hospital incl. 81 in ICU
• Four more people have died. 1,709 total deaths now

Data context: cbc.ca/news/canada/ca…

Testing data:

• 4.3% positivity provincewide yesterday

• North zone still has highest average positivity over past week, at above 7%

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Robson Fletcher

@CBCFletch

19 Jan

Oh hey, the Alberta Government did one of those 4:52 p.m. news releases.

They're cancelling 11 recently issued coal leases.

That might sound significant but the affected areas are very small additions (black) to much larger existing coal leases (grey) in the area. #ableg

https://twitter.com/CBCFletch/status/1339676766558846976

This is interesting news but it's unlikely to significantly affect any of the proposed projects in the area.

Here's some more background / context from a thread I tweeted in mid-December:

https://twitter.com/CBCFletch/status/1339676766558846976

Also the new (black) leases & existing (grey) coal leases in that map are zoomed in on just southern Alberta.

Here's that map in the full context of Alberta's coal leases & former coal categories.

Category 2 lands, where open-pit mining was banned from 1976 to 2020, are in blue

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Robson Fletcher

@CBCFletch

24 Dec 20

One more thing about yesterday's Alberta Parks release, which has confused A LOT of people.

The list of 170 parks with partnerships is *NOT* the same as the original list of 164 parks that had been set for removal.

The phrase "or maintained" is doing some heavy lifting here...

The 170 parks on this list the government put out yesterday are just those with existing partnerships, which could be from last week or last decade.

Take a quick scan and you'll see most were never on list of 164 proposed park removals. (Fish Creek? Canmore Nordic Centre? etc.)

How many partnerships are NEW?

The exact number is unclear.

The release says "more than a dozen" of the 170 are new: alberta.ca/release.cfm?xI…

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Robson Fletcher

@CBCFletch

24 Dec 20

Today an Alberta Environment spokesperson said "it was never the plan to 'delist' parks": cbc.ca/news/canada/ed…

In February, the Environment Minister sent a briefing to UCP MLAs: "We will also initiate the proposed removal of 164 under-utilized sites from the parks system..."

This briefing note also broke the proposed removal of these 164 sites from the parks system into two groups:

• 119 proposed "deregulations"
• 45 proposed "divestitures"

What does that mean exactly?

The briefing went on to say "deregulated sites would have the park designation removed" & be made available "for other land uses, if desired."

"Divestment means that we would remove the park designation & sell or transfer the land to another entity"

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