Social 9: Current Events Issue Summary on Mining the Rockies

FIRST ASSIGNMENT

Your task is to create a Readers Digest Condensed Review or Issue Summary. Citing sources, you will create a 1-2 page summary of ALL sides of the issue, using quotes, actual facts, and citing your sources–a minimum of 5– along the way. Your Issue Summary needs to be focused around this question: To what extent should environmental safeguards and economic freedom be balanced? Your opinion will be evident throughout your issue summary but must never be stated (as in “I believe”). Evidence from Chapter 9 should be utilized in your response.

Potential evidence:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/feb/09/canada-alberta-rockies-battle-big-coal-aoe

https://lethbridgeherald.com/commentary/opinions/2021/02/12/addressing-the-coal-policy/

https://canadians.org/analysis/coal-hard-facts-whats-happening-albertas-coal-policy

Coal Association of Canada Responds to Government of Canada Statements on Selenium and Thermal Coal

‘Sacred country’: Singer-songwriter Corb Lund holds coal mining protest concert

As Alberta debates coal mining, industry already affecting once protected Rockies

A tale of two provinces: how coal mining plowed ahead in the B.C. Rockies while Alberta hit the brakes

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/gina-rinehart-hancock-prospecting-grassy-mountain-1.5685824

SECOND ASSIGNMENT

1. pg 311 both critical thinking challenges (Inuit)
2. pg 315 all three critical thinking challenges (Bush, supply/demand)
3. pg 319 (yellow box) EXTENDED response