Corb Lund’s anti-coal mining petition begins collecting signatures
As of Wednesday, Country musician Corb Lund’s petition to outlaw new coal mines in the eastern slope of the Rockies is ready to collect signatures.
Elections Alberta received Lund’s application for the Citizen’s initiative petition back in December and approved it January 23. He then had some time to complete the necessary paperwork before being issued the actual petition. That petition was issued to the Juno award winner on Tuesday, and as of Wednesday he can officially begin collecting the needed 177,732 signatures required to persuade the legislature to consider passing a coal mining ban or send it to a province wide vote.
Lund has said his main concerns, specifically about the Grassy Mountain Coal mine in Alberta’s Crowsnest Pass, are the excessive and toxic amounts of selenium that would seep into the ground water, as well as cattle ranchers whose livelihoods could be at stake.
Lund has four months, until June 10th to collect the required number of signatures.
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