Benga’s Grassy Mountain Coal Project has confronted my wife and I with

great challenges in our lives. We were forced out of our property on the

southern slopes Grassy Mountain four years ago, shortly after we discovered

that Benga had included our property as part of the mine pit proper in

their proposal to mine coal. This was done without our permission or

knowledge. We have now reestablished on the Eastern slopes of the

Livingston Range. As your constituent, I am writing to declare my profound

dissatisfaction with your government’s decision to remove previous

protections that restricted open pit coal mining in these crown of the

continent areas, including the sensitive headwaters of the watershed. Tens

of thousands of Albertans downstream depend on this water.