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Coal-Fired Power Plant Expansion Approved

August 17, 2011

AWA letter to Hon. Peter Kent, Federal Minister of Environment to bring attention to a disappointing decision, whose legacy will affect Albertan’s and all Canadians for years to come.

On August 10, 2011, Maxim Power Corp. was given final approval by the Alberta Utilities Commission (AUC) to construct a 500-megawatt (MW) coal plant in the area of Grande Cache, Alberta. This decision was made just in time, enabling Maxim’s non-compliant plant to be commissioned before July 1, 2015 when new federal carbon legislation comes into effect.

We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in. For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope.
- Wallace Stegner
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