Corb is coming to town! Join Corb at the signing event closest to you to sign! St. Albert - April 3 Edmonton - April 3 Ponoka - April 4 Red Deer - April 4 Calgary - April 4 Longview - April 4 Medicine Hat - April 5 Lethbridge - April 5 Locations and times to be announced.
๐ST. ALBERT | 12:00 โ 1:00 PM
Plaza outside of St. Albert Place, 5 St Anne St
๐EDMONTON
๐ 1:30 โ 2:00 PM | Element Outfitters, 1441 99 St NW
๐ 2:30 โ 3:00 PM | Earth's Refillery Coop, 10831 95 St
๐ 3:30 โ 4:30 PM | Strathcona Dr. Wilbert Mcintyre Park, 8331 104 Street NW
๐ 5:00 โ 5:30 PM | Replenish Zero Waste, 9912 77 Ave NW
๐ 6:00 โ 8:00 PM | Southbound Brewing, 9943 69 Ave
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Today's the day #CorbLund comes through #Edmonton on his #WaterNotCoal petition tour. Check the link below for times and places.
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RE: https://mstdn.ca/@josephsimons/116297315060830368
If you'd like to see #CorbLund in person, come to Little Italy on Friday at 2:30. Corb will have his dog with him, and one of them will sing a few tunes!
Your friendly reminder that Corb Lundโs petition is still going, and check to see if thereโs a petition station near you.
Lund said opponents of the Grassy Mountain and Blackstone projects worry they would affect the quality of drinking water from the Oldman and North Saskatchewan rivers due to their respective locations.
A peer-reviewed study published last year found contamination from old coal mines in Alberta had been polluting nearby bodies of water, negatively impacting water quality and aquatic ecosystems.
โItโs already in the sensitive area,โ Lund said, referring specifically to the Grassy Mountain project. โThereโs already been legacy mining up there decades ago, and thereโs already an overwhelming amount of selenium in some of the lakes up there, so the economics of the thing donโt make sense and the conservation elements of it certainly donโt make sense.โ
Coal development in Alberta remains a contentious subject, with a newly-relaunched citizen initiative petition by country singer Corb Lund calling for a ban on all new coal exploration and coal mining in the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains.
Im a big fan of Corb Lund's brand of alt country music. I'm very happy that he is using his platform to push back against the coal industry.
โI get a lot of flak about being a celebrity or whatever and I should shut up and sing. And itโs like, well, I drink that water, like, I drink the water out of the Oldman River,โ
โMy animals drink the water, my mother drinks the water. So Iโm not a guy flying in from L.A. on a private jet. I am a sixth-generation rural Albertan, and Iโm just trying to keep the water clean.โ
https://www.theenergymix.com/alberta-country-singer-corb-lund-gets-ok-for-anti-coal-petition-drive/
Country music star plans petition calling for ban on Alberta coal mining
Lund, who still lives and ranches in Taber area, near the banks of the Old Man River, downstream from the coal mines would be located, says heโs been fighting against coal mining for more than five years, but the campaign took on new urgency with news the government is developing a new coal mining policy.
โItโs called CIMI, itโs called the Coal Industry Modernization Initiative, which so far has only been consulting industry and not conservation groups, not the public,โ said Lund.
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