My partner was one of the petition signature gatherers........and I am proud to oppose coal mining on our eastern slopes. Those slopes are where every river on the Canadian plains rises, and they need intact trees and uncleared slopes to hold that water and release it gradually over the season. Otherwise, you get floods in the spring, and droughts by August. As climate change proceeds, having enough water for agriculture and people's needs is going to be tricky...........we don't need our watersheds stripped and degraded for a 1% royalty from Australia, or anywhere else.
We need forested eastern slopes, clean water and healthy trout streams going forward. Coal has to be history........its a dirty fossil fuel, not an economic opportunity for anyone.
Ingamarie is quite correct. A pristine Eastern Slopes is not a nice thing to have, it's a necessity. And I say this as someone who couldn't sign Corb's petition because I live in B.C., on Vancouver Island. The corporate types (often, but not always, foreign) and their Canadian sycophants need to be held in check and the people of Alberta need to tell their political 'masters' in Edmonton to get on with it!
My partner was one of the petition signature gatherers........and I am proud to oppose coal mining on our eastern slopes. Those slopes are where every river on the Canadian plains rises, and they need intact trees and uncleared slopes to hold that water and release it gradually over the season. Otherwise, you get floods in the spring, and droughts by August. As climate change proceeds, having enough water for agriculture and people's needs is going to be tricky...........we don't need our watersheds stripped and degraded for a 1% royalty from Australia, or anywhere else.
We need forested eastern slopes, clean water and healthy trout streams going forward. Coal has to be history........its a dirty fossil fuel, not an economic opportunity for anyone.
Ingamarie is quite correct. A pristine Eastern Slopes is not a nice thing to have, it's a necessity. And I say this as someone who couldn't sign Corb's petition because I live in B.C., on Vancouver Island. The corporate types (often, but not always, foreign) and their Canadian sycophants need to be held in check and the people of Alberta need to tell their political 'masters' in Edmonton to get on with it!