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Laurie Adkin

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27 Feb

Did the UCP ask Albertans if they wanted their post-secondary education institutions (PSEIs), built up over decades with public funding, to be privatized? I, for one, don't remember that being on Jason Kenney's list of campaign promises. 1/n #abpse #abpoli

What does privatization mean? Well, at what point does a university education cease to be a public good and become a commodified private service? 2/n

When students pay for more than half the costs of their education individually, through tuition fees? When 70% of university budgets come from tuition fees and "entrepreneurial" endeavours (things one can charge money for)? 3/n

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Laurie Adkin

@LaurieAdkin

26 Feb

"Governments [sic] role is to provide a business environment that encourages the entrepreneurial spirit of its people." - Finance Minister Travis Toews in the Feb 25 2021 budget address
alberta.ca/release.cfm?xI…

And the UCP's supply side economics, that promise to reduce deficits, increase GDP growth, and increase employment, have done precisely the opposite. As they always do. 2/n

"Economic recovery" is always imminent for these guys--always "next year." They pretend to control and predict the future. The sure thing they actually deliver is the transfer of public wealth to private shareholders & CEOs. 3/n

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Laurie Adkin

@LaurieAdkin

17 Jan

@ABWilderness

Benga/Riversdale says: "The company has developed wildlife and fish monitoring programs to sustain those populations, and also has a plan in place to safely and effectively manage selenium." 1/n
calgaryherald.com/news/no-free-f…
@ABWilderness @cpawssab

"Monitoring" does not protect fish from selenium poisoning. Benga promises a lot of measures, most of which amount to experimentation or monitoring. The stakes are too high to approve another open pit coal mine on this basis. 2/n

@Corblund

Why do I say this? Because I read the submissions of the scientists to the JRP. You should read these, too, before you decide to take the proponents' promises at face value. That's what @Corblund did. That's why he said "I'm 100% opposed" to coal mining on the eastern slopes. 3/n

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Laurie Adkin

@LaurieAdkin

16 Jan

Jason Nixon's reassurances are not credible. Look at the evidence, Albertans, and not at the pretty words. First, Alberta does not have a "robust" environmental regulatory system. Is there one environmental lawyer in Canada who would agree with this? 1/n #abpoli

@Ablawg

One conservation biologist? One landscape ecologist? One conservation association? One environmental policy expert? One authority on the ecology of the eastern slopes? 2/n @Ablawg @ABWilderness @cpaws

Do you want to ask some of the landowners who have abandoned well sites on their properties? Indigenous communities living downstream of the oilsands? Or maybe have a look at the Cheviot mine site? 3/n

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Laurie Adkin

@LaurieAdkin

16 Jan

@ReclaimAlberta

One wonders if Alberta's Energy Regulator has any expertise about the costs of "restoring" open pit coal mines in mountain environments, or the past records of the companies being licensed to mine in this province. 1/n #Alberta #ableg @ReclaimAlberta @Pembina

@OKWesternWheel

What research has the AER done to establish that existing regs, incl. the MSFP requirements, are adequate? 2/n @OKWesternWheel @ABlawg @AER_news @SPhillipsAB

@CorbLund

Because the record of open pit coal mining in the US, Australia, Turkey, and elsewhere really isn't reassuring. I don't see any evidence that mountains & their unique ecosystems can be put back together the way they were before being blasted apart. 3/n @CorbLund @paulbrandt

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Laurie Adkin

@LaurieAdkin

16 Jan

This is a very informative and accessible (to non-scientists) explanation of how selenium gets into water, food, and animals, and how the Grassy Mountain coal mine would be likely to affect selenium levels in the Oldman River and throughout the watershed. 1/n
#Alberta #aboli

"[T]he top three sources of man-made selenium contamination worldwide in order of greatest to least are:
1. Mining
2. Irrigation
3. Feedlots
The Oldman River and South Saskatchewan watersheds already have large feedlots and supply irrigation." 2/n

@JonathanWNV

"If additional pressures from a new coal mine were added to these watersheds, this area would be unique in the world as having all three top contributors to selenium contamination." 3/n
@JonathanWNV @HMcPhersonMP @SPhillipsAB @row1960 @DrewPAnderson @Pembina @cpawssab

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