The UCP’s abrupt change of course follows weeks of protests from hundreds of thousands of Albertans from all walks of life. Landowner and conservation groups greeted the announcement with skepticism.

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Due to Albertans' overwhelming outcry over open-pit mines, the UCP will reinstate the 1976 coal policy and promises public consultation. But it’s no guarantee there won’t be more open-pit mines.

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The UCP government will not be renewing Alberta’s conservation cropping protocols for Alberta grain farmers to generate carbon offsets under the province’s greenhouse gas reduction strategy.

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An Alberta musician, Corb Lund is coming out against proposed coal mines for the province's Rocky Mountains.

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First, the UCP rescinded a policy preventing coal companies from surface mining the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains. Then, they accepted offers from Australian coal companies to mine close to 2,000 hectares.

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The UCP is looking to change access to water from the Oldman watershed, removing barriers that will help industrial users like coal and risking drinking water for about a million people in southern Alberta.

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Jason Kenney’s government quietly abolished the province’s Coal Policy last May to appease Australian coal miners, now ranchers are taking them to court over ending open-pit mining protection.

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Alberta Environment and Parks plans to move ahead with its plans to remove 175 sites from the Alberta Parks system. Conservationists say that once parks lose their protected area status they are not protected and are open to other uses, including industrial and commercial uses, which compromise conservation goals and public accessibility.

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Kenney taking a similar approach as autocratic leaders such as Russia's Putin and Hungary's Orban with inquiry into environmental groups. Read more