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.

“I get a lot of flak about being a celebrity or whatever and I should shut up and sing. And it’s like, well, I drink that water, like, I drink the water out of the Oldman River,”

“My animals drink the water, my mother drinks the water. So I’m not a guy flying in from L.A. on a private jet. I am a sixth-generation rural Albertan, and I’m just trying to keep the water clean.”

https://www.theenergymix.com/alberta-country-singer-corb-lund-gets-ok-for-anti-coal-petition-drive/

#corblund #music #climate #coal #abpoli #alberta

#CorbLund announced today that #ElectionsAlberta has notified him that his previously approved citizen #petition initiative against #coal #mining in Alberta’s Rocky Mountains has been retroactively cancelled by the #UCP.
#abpoli

https://open.substack.com/pub/crowsnestheadwaters/p/corb-lunds-coal-petition-now-cancelled?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

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 he’s 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.

“It’s called CIMI, it’s called the Coal Industry Modernization Initiative, which so far has only been consulting industry and not conservation groups, not the public,” said Lund.

Danielle Smith dared Eastern Slopes coal mine opponents to start a citizen initiative petition – so Corb Lund did

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://albertapolitics.ca/2025/11/danielle-smith-dared-eastern-slopes-coal-mine-opponents-to-start-a-citizen-initiative-petition-so-corb-lund-did/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=danielle-smith-dared-eastern-slopes-coal-mine-opponents-to-start-a-citizen-initiative-petition-so-corb-lund-did

Skid Row - Slave to the Grind
https://song.link/i/1727313677

Jason Isbell - Something More Than Free
https://song.link/i/986867022

Tennessee Ernie Ford - Sixteen Tons
https://song.link/i/309198630

Corb Lund - Washed-up Rock Star Factory Blues
https://song.link/i/1436820356

Bruce Springsteen - John Henry
https://song.link/ca/i/194954264

#ThursdayFiveList #WorkWork #SkidRow #JasonIsbell #CorbLund #BruceSpringsteen

more yodelling than you might expect in a song about gettin' snuffed by an antique pistol

but it works

You must be the first in ninety years to meet his death
By way of antique archaic black powder pistol's breath

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV6YDfwkBr8

#CanCon #CorbLund

"#CorbLund took time to really investigate it, talk to fellow ranchers, government, scientists, the coal companies themselves & said, 'holy cow, this is a bad idea!' Politicians didn't want to listen but when they get a country music singer with integrity & a lot of followers, they paid attention."

PODCAST https://www.podcastics.com/episode/343694/link/

#StopCoal #SaveOurMountains #ProtectOurWater #SaveOurSlopes #MountainsNotMines #yyc #abpoli #Climate #Conservation #Environment #GrassyMountain