Globe and Mail shines national attention on Australian speculator's attempts to exhume zombie coal mine at Grassy Mountain
Monica Field serenades energy regulators with counterpoint to foreign speculator's squawky song and dance routine. Idiotic lust of Crowsnest Pass for neighbouring municipality draws national ridicule.
Songstress Monica Field, at home in the Rocky Mountains. David McIntyre photo
The Globe and Mail’s Emma Graney is following the Grassy Mountain saga with neutral reporting of both sides. That the national newspaper would be covering what would otherwise be an obscure regulatory hearing says much about the Canada-wide concern for Alberta’s relentless abuse of the Rocky Mountains watershed.
The town of Crowsnest Pass made itself a regional pariah with its ludicrous vote to support coal mining of the South Saskatchewan river system’s headwaters. Now it has become all of Canada’s village idiot with its Putinesque special moronic operation to annex the mine site from an unwilling neighbour.