Thread by @a_bagainst

I took a drive down the 22 yesterday to check out a #monolith that popped up in the Crowsnest Pass area! Went to investigate, left realizing the @UCPCaucus is likely involved, in a bad way, as usual

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#monolithmystery
#FiretheUCP #ableg #WaterNotCoal #Alberta

If you haven't driven down the 22, it is gorgeous - rolling foothills, streams cutting through picturesque ranch land, and a rugged mountain landscape background. Near Maycroft provincial park, right near the Crowsnest pass is where this thing stands, approx. 12 feet tall.

It sounds like the Tin Man from Oz when you knock on it and looks to be made of shiny sheet metal. Seems to be mounted firmly into the ground, with no visible supports

Its similar to others I've seen, only in pictures, but has an additional feature: what appears to be an extra component that seems to indicate the monolith is 'pointing' to a larger swath of area, rather than strictly in the direction of the acute triangle shaped object's 'point'

If that is the case, it looks to point towards a chunk of the eastern slopes of Southern Alberta. A chunk that happens to be where the proposed Grassy Mountain Coal mine would be located.

I dont know who erected it (didn't look like the work of aliens to me, sadly) but as @bestbertwistle noted (and where i read about this first), maybe someone is trying to point out the environmentally destructive proposed coal mine project an Australian corporation is proposing?

The project, Grassy Mountain, has tons of serious impacts not just to the local environment, wildlife, and landscape, but significantly impacts the water supply for hundreds of thousands. Coal mining is a dirty operation.

How is this being allowed, you ask? The @UCPCaucus recisnded the 1976 land use policy for coal mining in the eastern slopes, and are facing court challenges for allegedly not legally consultation. Of course, announced Friday before May long weekend
cbc.ca/news/canada/ca…
#ableg

Anyone recall the price for HUGE amounts of provincial land leased to these foreign companies? Not even $36 bucks a hectare. Oh, thats for 15 years btw #UCPcorruption

The impacts are massive, the returns are little and not worth the nasty environmental impacts. This thread by @LaurieAdkin provides a fantastic overview of the impacts associated with strip mining

https://twitter.com/LaurieAdkin/status/1346913284939677697?s=19

Now, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe it was aliens who plunked this monolith down for reasons beyond our understanding. As awesome as that would be, I tend to speculate that this installation is a form of activism & protest against the proposed mine, set to damage the area beyond repair.

Want to help stop the Grassy Mountain coal project and send a message to the disastrous @UCPCaucus?

Free Postcard blitz: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Sign and share the HOC petition (Jan 15 deadline!): petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/De…

Submit comments to the IAAC:iaac-aeic.gc.ca/050/evaluation…

Sign this petition with over 50k signatures! change.org/p/alberta-gove…

@cpawssab has set up an easy way to email Jason Kenney and tell him to stop: cpawsnab.org/take-action/if

If i missed any other initiatives, please share them!

Please get involved and share. Thanks for reading

@DefendABParks @ED75Green @ryanjespersen @ElizabethMay @ClaireKraatz

Good list of media articles related to this

https://twitter.com/DrewPAnderson/status/1348047116975931392?s=19

Additional excellent article from the @thenarwhalca
thenarwhal.ca/alberta-ranche…

One last note - the actions I noted above that you can take against the Grassy Mountain project will take a grand total of 5 to 10 minutes - barely any time at all to help stop this from happening! I'm calling on all #Albertans and all of #Canada to please sign and share!

@youseepeeYYC @Crackmacs @colinmochrie @KikkiPlanet @danlevy @tomjacksonca @VancityReynolds @Realeugenelevy @RachelNotley @ryanjespersen

@Dave_Khan

UPDATE- DM came in with some credit to who created this. Not Aliens, but is an attempt to show the alien nature of the @UCPCaucus, and humans in general, to destroy beauty for profit. Thank you WildstoneStories, great work!

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