Thread by @LaurieAdkin

Of 853 individual comments on the Benga mine currently on the Impact Assessment Agency's registry, 97.9 % express strong opposition to the Grassy Mtn strip mine. You can read them for yourself, here: iaac-aeic.gc.ca/050/evaluation…
@TheNarwhal @CBCFletch @DrewPAnderson #StoptheBengaMine

I read or scanned all of them. The authors appear to be almost exclusively Albertans, and they are fiercely opposed to the approval of any further coal mining on the eastern slopes. @GeorgeMonbiot @Martin_Lukacs @guardianeco @HMcPhersonMP #abpoli #cdnpoli

The opponents are impressively well-informed about the environmental risks and socioeconomic arguments surrounding the proposed Grassy Mountain coal mine. @ABWilderness @cpawssab @TheTyee @AlbertaViews @ABlawg @ABEnvNet @APTNNews @CBCNews

Their grounds for opposition to coal mining on the eastern slopes cover the gamut, from the procedural (democratic) to the environmental and socio-economic, concerns for other species, and climate change. @abndpcaucus @GreenPartyAB @CanadianGreens

They are not, however, insensitive to the need for employment in the region. On the contrary, they make the case for environmentally sustainable forms of job creation as better alternatives to mining jobs. @ABFedLabour @GreenpeaceCA @Indigenous_ca @CJEdmonton @350Canada

835 Canadians (mostly Albertans) have taken the time to inform themselves about this proposal and write to the JRP to explain why they oppose it, and instead support ecologically sustainable development. @JonathanWNV @cathmckenna @s_guilbeault @ElizabethMay @AnnamiePaul

It is overwhelmingly evident that there is no strong public support for the Benga mine in Alberta. The Albertans who have become informed about the project fiercely oppose it, on multiple grounds. @RachelNotley @JonathanWNV #Yeg #Yyc @HighRiverTimes @Leth_Herald @SPhillipsAB

Albertans do not want coal mines. They do want secure, environmentally sustainable livelihoods that provide a good life. They do want to protect nature, landscapes, and other species. They do want alternatives to 'development' based on ecological destruction.

And they know that these alternatives are possible.
@TheLeap #JustRecovery #ClimateJustice #JustTransition