Corb Lund’s coal mine petition approved
After six years of fighting off the potential of coal mining in the eastern slopes of the Rockies, specifically the Grassy Mountain Coal mine in Alberta’s Crowsnest Pass, singer-songwriter Corb Lund has had a citizen’s initiative petition approved by Elections Alberta.
Lund says his main concerns 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. We caught up with Corb, who’s in Las Vegas this week performing at the National Finals Rodeo.
He tells BCN he applied to get the petition in place as a final straw, adding that after the petition is initiated, he has 120 days, in other words four months, to obtain approximately 178,000 signatures for the petition – and he’s confident he will get much more than that.