Author Archives: Cheryl Bradley

About Cheryl Bradley

Cheryl Bradley M.Sc. has represented the environmental interest in numerous water and watershed management planning processes in southern Alberta over four decades. She has also engaged in regulatory processes regarding water allocation decisions. Cheryl began her career as a professional biologist studying cottonwood forests along rivers in southern Alberta and facilitating development of a strategy for their conservation. Cheryl is recently retired and lives in Lethbridge.

Water for Coal Developments: Where Will It Come From?

By: Nigel Bankes and Cheryl Bradley

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Matters Commented On: A Coal Development Policy for Alberta (1976, rescinded June 1, 2020); Oldman River Basin Water Allocation Order, Alta Reg 319/2003

The Government of Alberta (GoA) is hell-bent on facilitating the development of new coal mines in the Province. To that end, it purported to rescind the long-standing Coal Development Policy (CDP) of 1976 effective June 1, 2020. The CDP prevented development of coal resources in Category I lands on the eastern slopes of the Rockies and only permitted the development of new underground mines (rather than open-pit mines) in Category II lands (see Figure 1, below, also available here).

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