Northback Holdings Corp., an Australian company, wants to mine the coal seams that stripe Grassy Mountain just north of Blairmore. Northback employees drive to the top of Grassy Mountain at the former coal mine north of Blairmore, Alta., on June 27.“We are a coal town,” declare signs propped in the windows and front yards of dozens of businesses and homes in Blairmore, a small Rocky Mountain town in Alberta’s south.
Northback has hosted various pub gatherings, a wine and cheese night and chats over coffee at a local café as it tries to clinch the “yes” vote. Volunteers and employees have pounded the streets, door-knocking with a vigour usually reserved for election campaigns. Monday used to be laundry day in the Pass, and “God help any mine manager who started up a tipple,” she recalled, sitting in The Rum Runner. “It was enough to incite a riot among all these irate housewives who had their nice white sheets on the line, and there would be all this coal dust coming over.”
“I would not be supporting them for one second if I thought that they were going to destroy my home. I’m very possessive when it comes to this place,” she said. The applications Northback has before the regulator are not for a working coal mine. The company is first redesigning its project to try and address concerns raised by the environmental panel that rejected the last plan. Citing worries about coal load-out, water, fish, air and noise, the panel declared that the mine
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