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Thanks for tagging me, @BartMLL.

I basically never use FB, but I'm on my (very old) laptop today.

Let's get some screen shots.

 "Today I decided to head up the Oldman to see what the coal companies have been getting up to. I forgot, however, that the forestry trunk road is closed at Dutch Creek each winter, ostensibly for wildlife protection. So I parked at the locked gate and started hiking."

#ableg
"Newly gouged test pit for coal wayyyy up on the mountain ridge. Note coal dust deposited downwind on the snow."

#ableg #DefendABParks
#FiretheUCP
"Same ridge, for scale. That whole mountain is meant to disappear, if Atrum gets the okay to mine this lease. Which they will if the UCP stay in charge of things. The new exploration pit is on the right. The rest of their work is out of sight from this angle."

#ableg #FiretheUCP
"The moose shared my opinion, evidently."

#ableg #DefendABParks
#WaterNotCoal #NoToCoalAB
"No traffic since earlier in the winter, but you can see the new road going up the hill in a perfect line to bring erosion back down to the creek with its hopeful little single strip of erosion fabric beside the undersized bridge."

#ableg #BoycottUCPdonors #WaterNotCoal
"Truck heading up-valley with more pipe for more new roads up the sides of more old mountains."

#ableg #BoycottUCPdonors
#WaterNotCoal #NoToCoalAB
"Public land. "No Trespassing"."

#WaterNotCoal
#ableg #BoycottUCPdonors
#FiretheUCP #NoToCoalAB
"Hope the work I and other volunteers did stands up to strip mining..."

#WaterNotCoal
#ableg #BoycottUCPdonors
#FiretheUCP #NoToCoalAB
Save the Old Man River

Stop Crowsnest Mines

#WaterNotCoal
#ableg #BoycottUCPdonors
#FiretheUCP #NoToCoalAB
That's the end of the Facebook thread.

Here's a direct link to that website mentioned at the end.

Stop Crowsnest Mines

#WaterNotCoal
#ableg #BoycottUCPdonors
#FiretheUCP #NoToCoalAB

https://t.co/iIHTPHCJE7
Here's their "Take Action" page with contact info.

"We need your help! Please print the petition off, sign it, and then take it to your work, home, school etc. and collect as many signatures as you can, and then contact us!"

#WaterNotCoal #ableg

https://t.co/Kpfg1IYNRx
Reminder, it was only a month ago that permits were issued for this project by the #UCP government.

#WaterNotCoal #ableg
#FiretheUCP
#BoycottUCPdonors

https://t.co/LyshhNBE7v
We can thank @cpawssab for warning about this project earlier. Please consider following them!

#WaterNotCoal
#DefendABParks
#FiretheUCP

https://t.co/TPmp7V7iP0
Here's a screen shot of the December 15th permit posting, which I first saw shared by @iturquhart. (Thank-you!)

#WaterNotCoal
#DefendABParks
#FiretheUCP
#ableg

https://t.co/kppE6svMFD
The Stop Crowsnest Mines folks have a facebook page.

If you're on FB hop over and give them a like and a share.

(And let me know if they start up on twitter.)

#WaterNotCoal
#DefendABParks
#FiretheUCP
#ableg

https://t.co/Dz9Ib0Zzes👀
Apparently @TUCanada1 had done a bunch of work on the Hidden Creek watershed area a few years back.

Is that work now threatened?

https://t.co/PMfijW7uAV
Here's a page that talks a bit about @TUCanada1's work on the Old Man River area. There's a little map that shows the (huge!) area of the river's watershed on their page. Check it out.

https://t.co/HgYlvMk8rG
Here's the Government of Canada page on the Grassy Mountain Coal Project.

The Joint Review Panel has closed the record on project and is no longer accepting submissions, however there's a bunch of documents there going back to 2016.

https://t.co/VZDZe23xtO👀
Initial environmental assessment from August 2016.

#DefendABparks
#ableg

https://t.co/R2u3ujfOLl👀
Agreement To Establish a Joint Review Panel for the Grassy Mountain Coal Project Between

The Minister of the Environment, Canada
- and -
The Alberta Energy Regulator, Alberta

Dated August 2018.

https://t.co/Yq3oGD6acQ👀
June 29, 2020: Public Notice: Grassy Mountain Coal Project – Notice of Hearing

Public hearing to begin Oct. 27th, 2020.

https://t.co/mCRbmrVFfO👀
And here's a video playlist of that public hearing, which met through 29 days

32 videos total.

#ableg #WaterNotCoal

https://t.co/nf3nhHydRC
Okay, getting into the details of the policy stuff here is beyond my skillset. I don't have the time right now to try to dig in and interpret everything.

I hope someone is able to review this stuff.

#ableg #DefendABparks
Here's a link back to Kevin Van Tighem's FB post, initially shared with me by @BartMLL.

Thanks again.

#ableg #WaterNotCoal

https://t.co/arlw84nnWl
Here’s a map of the area posted by @CBCFletch

https://t.co/Fu0I0FyI9r https://t.co/8rdUX8INms
And some more context by @CBCFletch

#ableg #WaterNotCoal

https://t.co/EakbdFR0aR https://t.co/EG9gAuhjvM

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