Ranchers are taking time out of their fields, farms and pastures to voice concern over a provincial government policy following public criticism from country stars Corb Lund and Paul Brandt .
December 29, 2020
There’s trouble brewing in the mountains and the foothills, as a recent policy change by Alberta’s government puts significant grazing land and water sources at risk, according to ranchers. In June, the Alberta government quietly rescinded a coal mining policy, shocking ranchers in southwestern Alberta.
Laura Laing and John Smith, who own Plateau Cattle Co., are directly affected by the elimination of the coal policy. Their grazing allotment is in the Mt. Livingstone range on the Oldman Watershed, just west of Nanton, Alta. It’s Category 2 land that has never been subject to open-pit mountain top removal coal mining but will be now. The policy was rescinded without any public or stakeholder consultation, the ranchers add.
Alberta is planning new mountaintop-removal coal mines. Here’s what that looks like
Debate has swirled as Alberta opens up a large swath of the Rocky Mountains’ eastern slopes to new coal mining. B.C.’s Elk Valley offers a preview of what may come next Share A mine in B.C. s Elk Valley. Teck Resources owns and operates a number of metallurgical coal mines in the region that provide coal for use in steelmaking. As Alberta moves to make more of the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains open to coal mining, more mountain-top-removal mines could operate in the province. Photo: Callum Gunn
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