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BLOG: Wake up and Smell the Coal Alberta!

Kristina Groves | Posted 03.27.2013 | Canada Alberta
Read More: Pembina Institue, Coal Power, Renewable Energy, Full-Cost Accounting, Pollution, Alberta, Energy Debates, Canada Alberta News
Kristina Groves

If a new Pembina Institute report released this week is any indication, we Albertans have happily, if unwittingly, kept the wool pulled down over our eyes when it comes to acknowledging the primary fuel that powers our lives. To wit, fully 64 per cent of the electricity generated in Alberta comes from burning the most inefficient and dirty of all fossil fuels: coal.

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Thousands Will Die Early From This, Study Finds

CP | Bob Weber, The Canadian Press | Posted 03.26.2013 | Canada Alberta
Read More: Coal Power Generation, Health Effects Coal Power, Coal Power, Coal-Fired Power Generation, Dangers of Coal Power Generation, Coal Dangers, Coal-Fired Power Health Effects, Health Effects Coal, Coal Power Alberta, Cp, Dangers of Coal, Coal, Canada Alberta News

EDMONTON - A study says coal-fired power generation is likely to cause thousands of early deaths in Alberta and cost the province hundreds of millions...

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Who's The Real Climate Change Bad Guy?

CP | Bob Weber, The Canadian Press | Posted 04.20.2012 | Canada
Read More: Coal Power, Oilsands Climate Change, Oilsands Global Warming, Cp, Alberta Oilsands, Fossil Fuels, Coal Climate Change, Climate Change, Alberta Oil, Coal, Global Warming, Coal Global Warming, Canada News

One of the world's top climate scientists has calculated that emissions from Alberta's oilsands are unlikely to make a big difference to global warmin...

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