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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Jeannette Rocher

Born in Puerto Rico, raised in Minnesota and Manitoba, Jeannette has had the opportunity to live in a variety of places including New York, Arizona, and Nevada. After completing college and a paid internship with CBC Winnipeg, Jeannette embarked on her journalism career by moving overseas to take a job on the island of Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands. While overseas she covered stories in Fiji, Guam and Japan including the 2011 tsunami that hit Japan and its surrounding islands. She covered a mass shooting, an Earth quake, murder cases and other substantial court cases. In 2013 she moved to Alberta where she covered the devastating floods of High River and Medicine Hat for CTV News. She then went on to produce and host Go! Southern Alberta for Shaw TV. She now calls Miracle Channel home. In addition to reporting in the field, you can catch her anchoring daily weather reports, as well as longer interview segments on BCN, and the week-in-review show on BCN Weekends. 

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