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EUB Requires Environmental Impact Information for Revised Cheviot Mine Proposal

February 1, 2003

Wild Lands Advocate article, April 2004, by Philip Clement.

Since our last Cheviot update, the parent companies holding the coal leases for the proposed Cheviot mine, Luscar and Consol, have reached an agreement to merge with Fording River Coal, the largest coal company in Canada. Although the parent companies will now have more alternatives, the ramifications of the merger for the Cheviot mine are unclear.

Read the article: 200302_AR_CD.pdf

No public hearings are scheduled. Only one Alberta organization, the Alberta Wilderness Association, is independent enough that it continues championing public land and the people's right of access to it. So people must speak individually, as they have so many times before, directly to the premier, the minister of Sustainable Resource Development and their MLA, and remind them of what public land means to all of us, that none of it is surplus to our needs, that we do not want it sold.
- Bob Scammell, 2003
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