Does Lethbridge want Coal Mining in the Eastern Slopes? Protecting Alberta Water

Added: 2026-05-22

[00:00:00]They call you an environmentalist like it's a bad thing. It's controversial these days to care for anything other than how quickly we can extract things from places that have been restricted for ages.

[00:00:14]>> They say that it's silly to worry about water when there's money to be made. Not by us, but by others, of course. And they'll leave eventually, but their contamination will stay.

[00:00:26]Nowadays, they have methods to reduce pollution. They say they claim plans to reclaim places that were abandoned in the before days by others like them. But they're different. They say they did a name change after all. You can trust conglomerates these days.

[00:00:42]The people have been saying no for a while. And I'm sure if we asked the mountains if the lakes could speak, the birds, the bees, I'm sure they would scream. But they can't. So we will in hopes that a machine has ears and can hear. We take for granted how beautiful our province is sometimes. The water, the mountains, the lakes.