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At first glance the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia and Alberta are nearly indistinguishable. They both have spectacular ridgelines snow-covered peaks and mountains shaped by tens of thousands of years of glacial sculpting. The two provinces shared border straddles the same iconic mountain range and the same rich coal deposit that lies beneath.

Were talking about basically the same stuff in a very similar mountain environment Harvey Locke co-founder of the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative told The Narwhal.

But what the two provinces dont share is their policies on coal mining.

While Alberta is a coal-rich province (nearly half of the province sits atop coal deposits) B.C. produces some ten times the volume of metallurgical coal much of it from massive mountaintop-removal coal mines in the Rockies and is one of the worlds largest exporters of the so-called black gold. Coal is B.C.s most valuable mined commodity.

So when Albertans of all political stripes reacted with outrage to the United Conservative Party governments plan to open up much of the eastern slopes to open-pit coal mining coal mining in B.C.s Rocky Mountains carried on business-as-usual just across the border.

To understand why this happened in Alberta and not in British Columbia you have to set aside some conventional understandings of the left and the right, and where they are on conservation issues Ian Urquhart professor emeritus of political science and conservation director at Alberta Wilderness Association told The Narwhal.

And in a province long known for its resource-driven economy and its political leaders donning I heart oil ball caps and I heart pipelines bumper stickers a history of a devout conservation ethic might come as a surprise to some.