Published in The Lethbridge Herald on March 6, 2025 Kudos to Lethbridge City Council for unanimously reconfirming its commitment to protecting our water. The City of Lethbridge has joined a number of other communities in the region to express concerns about water quality being adversely affected by the impacts of coal mining in the headwaters…

You’re invited: Dry Horizons: Stewarding a Future for Southern Alberta’s Water Film Screening in Lethbridge on March 18 (7 – 9 p.m.) at McKillop United Church Southern Alberta Group for Environment and McKillop United Church are partnering with Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society Southern Alberta (CPAWS sAB) and the Alberta Chapter of Backcountry Hunters and…

Lethbridge Councillor Belinda Crowson will Move a Resolution on February 25th (12:30 p.m.) for Protecting the Oldman Watershed and Protecting Agriculture and Agri-food Businesses in the region. SAGE advocated for, and supports, this Resolution (https://www.sage-environment.org/grassy-mountain-coal-project-a-resolution/) The Resolution states: WHEREAS water is vital for human, animal and plant life; and WHEREAS Lethbridge and surrounding communities are…

Thank you for your email regarding Northback Holdings Corporation’s (Northback) applications to conduct test drilling on Grassy Mountain. As Minister of Energy and Minerals, I am pleased to respond on behalf of the Government of Alberta. Government is tasked with overseeing responsible resource development for the benefit of all Albertans. We cannot comment on this…

Letter to Mayor & Council, City of Lethbridge On October 19, 2020, City Council unanimously passed a resolution that acknowledged the headwaters on the eastern slopes as the source of our drinking water and that the surface mining of coal has the potential of adversely affecting water in the watershed.  The resolution indicated the risk…

The Grassy Mountain coal project presents an environmental threat to our region. As such, coal extraction in the headwaters is an economic threat to the agri-food industry. It is the reasonable concern of every person to have access to uncontaminated water: for our homes, for our businesses, and for growing our food. When the Grassy…

Lorne Fitch, Jeff Kneteman, Richard Quinlan, Kirby Smith, George Sterling Executive Summary: As former Provincial Fish and Wildlife biologists with extensive experience with land use, our observations, monitoring and research provide the following conclusions on coal development in the Eastern Slopes of Alberta’s Rockies: – Despite the scope and scale of coal exploration programs, they…

Southern Alberta Group for the Environment (SAGE), June 2021 Executive Summary:SAGE is a leading voice for a healthy and environmentally sustainable community in Lethbridge, and honours the traditional territory of the Blackfoot / Niitsítapi Confederacy. We are indebted to the Indigenous Peoples of the Canadian Plains for the stewardship of this land: past, present and…