‘One Hell of a Fight’: Coal Miners Again Target Alberta’s Ro

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‘One Hell of a Fight’: Coal Miners Again Target Alberta’s Rockies

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Ranchers and conservationists gear up to battle Australian magnate Gina Rinehart.

Andrew Nikiforuk The Tyee September 20, 2023

Gina Rinehart, Australia’s richest person who made a fortune selling iron ore to China and India, apparently doesn’t take no for answer.

The multi-billionaire right-wing climate change skeptic is back in the Canadian Rockies with a new company to resurrect old plans to develop an open pit metallurgical coal mine. It starts with new requests for drilling deep exploratory wells at Grassy Mountain in the headwaters of the Oldman River.

As a result conservationists and landowners are gearing up for another epic battle to keep coal mining out of the eastern slopes in the Rocky Mountains which serve as a critical watershed for bone-dry Alberta.

“It seemed like the Australian coal miners went away but I don’t think they ever stopped,” the president of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, Katie Morrison, told the Tyee.

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