Grassy Mountain coal mine has benefits, group says [Video]

A proposed coal mine — not tourism — is critical in revitalizing southwestern Alberta communities along the edge of the Rockies, a group in favour of a controversial project maintains.

Carmen and Troy Linderman of Citizens Supportive of Crowsnest Coal point to more commerce, new jobs that pay well and a diversified tax base as reasons to support the Grassy Mountain project proposed for an Eastern Slopes site just beyond their municipality.

The spouses envision jobs with little or no travel for working families and a taxbase less reliant on residential property, should Northback Holdings Corporation succeed in its reignited proposal to mine the type of coal used to make steel.