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.  

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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