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aemiron-main · 16 days ago

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watching the coal development moratorium get lifted in alberta & knowing that all of the water from the rockies to all of southern alberta is going to be completely fucked & toxic/filled with selenium (and we’ve already got issues with that & how it’s affecting the fish and bighorn populations) from coal-mining runoff & it’s going to cause absolute ecological disaster in this area and disaster for people re: safe water access & there’s ZERO new coal mining safety regulations in place (the only regulations are from 45 years ago and theyre barely anything/might as well not exist at all) and it’s just. A nightmare situation. The conservatives really are hellbent on fucking everything and everyone in this province over

#like lmao #the water where we live already isnt safe for humans to drink in large quantities #(because our landlord refuses to pay for a proper filter to deal with the water’s issues)#and its only going to get worse because of the groundwater system the wells in these rural areas use #(hence why you cant bury euthanized animals within a certain distance of your house/water system- because the chemicals used to euthanize #them might leak out as they decompose & get into your water via the ground)#and so then once the selenium starts flowing into the groundwater here #people are so fucked. its. insane #its ‘people not banning lead paint’ type of insane #like the sort of stuff people look back on like ‘HOW did they let this happen/it seems so obvious’#and its like #ive SEEN the consequences of selenium poisoning in animals firsthand #because we had issues with it when we lived further out in the foothills #and it’s. horrifying #especially with the birth defects it causes #like. ive held animals while they die from it right after they were born #the amount of suffering that lifting this moratorium is going to cause is staggering #and also i do wish that urban canadians would stop solely blaming rural albertans for the albertan conservative party #because the reality is that while yes tons of rural albertans are full on consvertaive morons #the majority of rural albertans actually opposed lifting the coal moratorium because they KNOW how vital the groundwater is to rural areas #but its the oil & coal guys who live in the suburbs of calgary and every other city & who buy up those weird subdivided ranch suburb things #and pretend to be cowboys while never having actually done any of that sort of work or cared for anh sort of animals #that support he conservatives & lifting the coal moratorium the most #THOSE people will not be affected by this in the same way that rural people will be #because they go and play pretend out in rural areas whenever the mood strikes then #and then they drive their stupid lifted truck back to their stupid huge mcmansion house in calgary #and they continue to fuck everyone over

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