Eastern Slopes Coal Mining - Vista Mines Expansions

Selenium is a by product of mining and CANNOT be removed with current technology. Poisoned watersheds will absolutely occur WHEN (not if) tailing  ponds fail. AS Well selenium and arsenic and other contaminants are already in these watersheds ...... we need to be fixing the problem by PHASING OUT these mines ....NOT Expanding them!!!

These watersheds feed into the North Saskatchewan River system carrying this bio accumulating pollution and poisons ever eastward right through to Hudsons Bay.  This pollution must not get worse!!

Specises at risk use these areas as well as other flora and fauna. We must halt these ecology devastating industries and care for our biodiversity. 

This expansion will require much more water to wash this coal ..... we are already in a drought prone area .... why would we waste precious clean water washing coal ??? Our agriculture needs this water to FEED US !!! 

Surely with Canada signing the G7 commitments  for climate change and leading the 'moving past coal' initiatives we gave a golden opportunity to lead by example and stop this nonsense in our pristine Eastern Rockies.

Thank you for the opportunity to provide my input .Coal Mining in The Rockies must be phased out!!!