Grassy Mountain, Crowsnest Pass, Alberta
The Kenney government has fined an Alberta hunter $600 for making an anti-coal video, but the young man says he’s laughing.
Last October, Levi Williams-Whitney went for a gambol up Grassy Mountain just north of the town of Blairmore in Alberta’s historic Crowsnest Pass.
Much of the mountain is now owned by Benga Mining (Riversdale Resources), a firm purchased by Australian billionaire Gina Rinehart in 2019 for $700 million.
With the Kenney government’s blessings, Rinehart, an iron-ore magnate and Australia’s wealthiest woman, has proposed to reduce what is now the habitat of mountain sheep, trout and elk into a giant open-pit coal mine. (The mountain top removal project is under a joint federal-provincial review.)
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Source: Alberta Government Fines Hunter for Trespassing on Australian Coal Lease | The Tyee
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