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City council looking into controversial coal proposal Poll Would you support the Conservative Party of Canada’s carbon tax plan of consumer pricing with ‘green’ savings account? Yes Medicine Hat city council will consider lending its voice to opposition of a coal mining proposal near the headwaters of the South Saskatchewan river basin. The proposed Grassy Mountain coal mine would be located in the Crowsnest Pass, just north of the town of Blairmore. Mayor Ted Clugston said Monday that the issue has been raised by some residents and council discussed the matter in its closed session pri...

Meanwhile, signatures on two petitions on Facebook opposing the UPC government’s pro-coal mining moves surged past 100,000. Last March, at the beginning of the pandemic, the Jason Kenney government quietly revoked the province’s 44-year-old Coal Policy. The visionary policy, created by former premier Peter Lougheed after extensive public consultation, said most of the eastern slopes of the Rockies should remain off limits to mountain-top removal in order to protect water security, wildlife and the area’s beauty. Kenney’s axing of the policy immediately opened up 1.5 million hectares o...

Westslope cutthroat trout in Crowsnest Pass draw fly-fishers from around the world. Many fear the proposed coal mine at Grassy Mountain will cripple an already struggling population, though proponents of the mine say reclamation efforts will improve cutthroat habitat. Photo by John Launstein. Sean Oliver, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter     The joint review panel’s public hearings on Benga Mining Ltd.’s proposed Grassy Mountain project concluded Dec. 2 with interested parties arguing for and against the open-pit mine.   One of the concluding topics, which took up the las...

Williams-Whitney, an avid hunter and environmental student at the University of Lethbridge, wasn’t impressed with Rinehart’s plans, let alone the Alberta government’s red-carpet treatment for Australian coal miners. “The video was my way to express some of my frustration and refine my thinking about the issues,” said Williams-Whitney who has hunted for elk in the eastern slopes for years. So he drove an hour-and-a-half from his home in Lethbridge to the Crowsnest Pass, where underground coal mines, French coal barons and communist unions once dominated the region’s turbulent histo...