Opponents of Grassy Mountain coal project concerned about 'decapitating' mountain top

As a month-long online review hearing on a proposed $800-million coal mine was getting underway, landowners and conservation groups urged Albertans not to get lured by the promise of short-term jobs. “Having whole landscapes stripped open will be a slow moving natural disaster,” said Dr. Andrea Hull, spokesperson for the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE). She said CAPE Alberta is strongly opposed to open pit coal mining on the eastern slopes due to the sig