{"id":34323,"date":"2026-02-16T14:22:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T22:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/lunds-alberta-anti-coal-petition-given-go-ahead-to-start-collecting-signatures\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T14:22:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T22:22:19","slug":"lunds-alberta-anti-coal-petition-given-go-ahead-to-start-collecting-signatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/lunds-alberta-anti-coal-petition-given-go-ahead-to-start-collecting-signatures\/","title":{"rendered":"Lund&#8217;s Alberta anti-coal petition given go-ahead to start collecting signatures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>EDMONTON \u2014 Country singer <a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.coalpetition.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Corb Lund\u2019s petition effort to outlaw new coal mining<\/a> on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains has been given the official go-ahead to gather signatures.<\/p>\n<p>The petition calls for the government to introduce legislation prohibiting any new coal mining activity in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Lund will have four months \u2014 until June 10 \u2014 to collect just under 178,000 signatures.<\/p>\n<p>If he\u2019s successful, the Alberta legislature would then consider passing a coal mining ban or send the issue to a provincewide vote.<\/p>\n<p>Lund has been a vocal opponent of new coal mining exploration and development.<\/p>\n<p>He has said the majority of Albertans want to protect land and water in the area.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a92025 The Canadian Press<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada.constructconnect.com\/dcn\/news\/resource\/2026\/02\/lunds-alberta-anti-coal-petition-given-go-ahead-to-start-collecting-signatures\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] EDMONTON \u2014 Country singer Corb Lund\u2019s petition effort to outlaw new coal mining on the eastern slopes of the &#8230; <a title=\"Lund&#8217;s Alberta anti-coal petition given go-ahead to start collecting signatures\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/lunds-alberta-anti-coal-petition-given-go-ahead-to-start-collecting-signatures\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Lund&#8217;s Alberta anti-coal petition given go-ahead to start collecting signatures\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1037],"tags":[357,295],"class_list":["post-34323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-commercial-news","tag-blog","tag-technology","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}