So on a Friday afternoon before the 2020 May long weekend — in the middle of the worst pandemic since the Spanish Flu of 1918 — Kenney bet that Albertans wouldn’t notice if he cancelled Peter Lougheed’s 1976 Coal Development Policy for Alberta, thereby opening up 1.4 million hectares of Alberta’s Rocky Mountain splendour for strip mining and mountain top removal. The idea was to “modernize” our “obsolete” coal policy, because nowadays, the Kenney government posits, our incredibly advanced mining technology and world-class environmental protection (that has resulted in thousands of abandoned oil and gas wells for example) would protect the mountains much better by mining them than by keeping them as God (and Peter Lougheed) left them.