Your friendly reminder that Corb Lund’s petition is still going, and check to see if there’s 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.
“It’s already in the sensitive area,” Lund said, referring specifically to the Grassy Mountain project. “There’s already been legacy mining up there decades ago, and there’s already an overwhelming amount of selenium in some of the lakes up there, so the economics of the thing don’t make sense and the conservation elements of it certainly don’t make sense.”
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.
“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/
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
Skid Row - Slave to the Grind
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Jason Isbell - Something More Than Free
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Tennessee Ernie Ford - Sixteen Tons
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Corb Lund - Washed-up Rock Star Factory Blues
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Bruce Springsteen - John Henry
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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
"#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/
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