green light<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cI always tell people that I\u2019m not political about this, I don\u2019t have any affiliation to any of the parties, I don\u2019t particularly like any of them,\u201d Lund tells 660 NewsRadio.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut, what\u2019s going on is that there\u2019s a bunch of coal mining that they want to bring in in really sensitive areas where our water sheds are \u2014 the headwaters of our rivers, in the foothills of the mountains.\u201d<\/p>\n
A 2025 Leger poll shows only 23 per cent of Albertans support coal exploration for mining in the eastern slopes, and only 27 per cent believe the economic impacts outweigh the environmental risks.<\/p>\n
Lund says he did his homework before ever speaking out about this, speaking with the Canadian Coal lobby, provincial ministers, and coal company CEOs.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m completely convinced that this is a terrible, crooked idea and it\u2019s going to ruin our water, and the taxpayers are going to be on the bill for it in a couple of decades,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s going to cause hell with our water, as well as ruining the mountains in that area, but the biggest thing is the air quality and the water quality \u2014 especially the water.<\/p>\n
He says it\u2019s almost impossible to do this kind of coal mining without ruining the groundwater and contaminating it with selenium and other contaminants.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Lund needs at least 178,000 signatures by June 10. If he\u2019s successful, the\u00a0Alberta\u00a0legislature would then consider passing a coal mining ban or send the issue to a provincewide vote.<\/p>\n
After his stop in Calgary on Saturday, he\u2019ll be moving on to Edmonton on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Lund says he wants to \u201cknock this thing out of the park\u201d with far more signatures than required.<\/p>\n
Thousands of volunteers are already canvassing across the province.<\/p>\n
With files from LIsa Grant<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Country music artist Corb Lund is in Calgary Saturday to promote his citizen petition calling for a ban…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-490829","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-calgary","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-calgary","10":"tag-canada"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}