On Nov. 25, 1,957 of the 6,007 eligible Crowsnest Pass residents voted in favour of Northback’s Grassy Mountain coal mining project in southwestern Alberta. This non-binding referendum excluded the 2,416 taxpayers who do not live there full-time. The result will be used by the Crowsnest Pass Municipal District to lobby in support of the mine, […] Read more
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Alta. coal battles keep returning
The persistence of Benga, now renamed Northback, an Australian mining company, is testament to never accepting “no” for an answer. Money has paved the way for an intensive lobbying effort with Alberta politicians and bureaucrats, only exceeded by the effort displayed by the petroleum industry. The Grassy Mountain coal mine proposal in Alberta’s eastern slopes […] Read more
