Corb Lund Is actually a snapping turtle

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Most of the actors, musicians and celebrities are very pampered with limited education and don’t have to worry about being unemployed or balancing a budget.
(Corb Lund could be the exception with a geology degree and mining experience but I doubt it.)

How much $ will the Alberta economy lose over this?

How can any farmer be against industry? Until now, farmers have been spoiled by a very low tax burden relative to the services we recieve, thanks to a much higher tax burden ( in all forms) on the resource extraction industry. Remove that revenue, and guess who will be left to pay for the bill? Not a hope in H*** that we could outvote the populace who will never accept a reduction in services. Kill the mining industry, kill the energy industry, kill forestry, and we can have the pleasure of paying all the tax bill, along with drastically higher prices for energy, inputs, and every other material we require.

[sumdumguy]

Alberta is being decimated, and celebrities continue to hammer away - they are wallowing in their undeserved power - and you know who is the next target of their wrath? Think people! We should all be unifying to quash this lunacy or every hope of developing anything in the West is doomed. There will always be someone who doesn’t like this, that or the other but he is a voice in the dark unless he is a “celebrity”.

[GDR]

I dont know all the details and so dont have a firm opinion, however The Mayor of Crowsnest Pass is in favour of the proposed mine and says the approval rating is between 70 and 80% locally. (main local employment is coal mines already, just across the border in bc) It's the locals that both reap the benefits and suffer the consequences of such a project, not sure it should be up to the rest of us to decide for them.

Dont know the accuracy of this statement but did hear that the Australian company would pay a 7% royalty on coal at home and this project is only 1% royalty. perhaps some adjustment required there.

[Blaithin]

You can take your marching orders from actors and singers of you like Blaithin, its a free world. Oh and as for my bad speeling, it is what it is.

Somehow I did manage to not support the idea of open pit mining in the eastern slopes BEFORE Corb said he also wasn’t a fan.

He’s also never told me to march anywhere before so I’m unable to take that order.

Am I not allowed to hold a different opinion without it being insinuated that I’m weak and being led by idiots who know no better than they should? (Corb grew up and lives in that area still btw so he’s much closer to the issue than you are. Being a musician should not remove him from being able to hold a valid opinion about something that will effect where he lives.)

You’re entitled to your view sumdumguy, but just because some of us don’t share that same view doesn’t mean we are wastes of space. That is not the place for coal mining.

[bucket]

The unfortunate part of this is...you can't put a coal mine where there is no coal...

[Guest]

I dont know all the details and so dont have a firm opinion, however The Mayor of Crowsnest Pass is in favour of the proposed mine and says the approval rating is between 70 and 80% locally. (main local employment is coal mines already, just across the border in bc) It's the locals that both reap the benefits and suffer the consequences of such a project, not sure it should be up to the rest of us to decide for them.

Dont know the accuracy of this statement but did hear that the Australian company would pay a 7% royalty on coal at home and this project is only 1% royalty. perhaps some adjustment required there.

Good post !
Yea way more important what celebrities think than people that live there *
Like some old hereditary “paid off” chiefs , actors and bloodsucking pricks stopping projects that would give northern native communities work and hope

[woodland]

I dont know all the details and so dont have a firm opinion, however The Mayor of Crowsnest Pass is in favour of the proposed mine and says the approval rating is between 70 and 80% locally. (main local employment is coal mines already, just across the border in bc) It's the locals that both reap the benefits and suffer the consequences of such a project, not sure it should be up to the rest of us to decide for them.

Dont know the accuracy of this statement but did hear that the Australian company would pay a 7% royalty on coal at home and this project is only 1% royalty. perhaps some adjustment required there.

That’s the strange part is royalties. Why give it away? They would need to hammer out the reclamation plan too. I’m surrounded by orphan wells and thousands of acres of unreclaimed coal mine ground so that may skew my viewpoint.

It’s gotta come from somewhere ................ why not here? BC does it and hail themselves as environmentally conscious. My wife’s uncle and aunt live just south of Golden and there is no shortage of unit trains of coal rolling by when we visit them.

[MBgrower]

Is country music still a thing?

[WiltonRanch]

That’s the strange part is royalties. Why give it away? They would need to hammer out the reclamation plan too. I’m surrounded by orphan wells and thousands of acres of unreclaimed coal mine ground so that may skew my viewpoint.

It’s gotta come from somewhere ................ why not here? BC does it and hail themselves as environmentally conscious. My wife’s uncle and aunt live just south of Golden and there is no shortage of unit trains of coal rolling by when we visit them.

That’s where I’m at with this issue too. Not enough royalty to justify it. Metallurgical coal will have a decent demand for years to come but don’t give it away. It’s inherent value is not being captured for 1%. I’d also would like to see some more info about selenium runoff into the rivers. If you depend on the north Saskatchewan river for water you’d probably want to question that. I’m not against mining. I’m against the sneaky way legislation deemed necessary by Peter Lougheed in 1976 was changed without much consultation nor debate. Sure the eco muffins will cry loud at anything but there’s more here at play that needs discussion before decisions are made.