It's no secret to Crowsnest Pass residents that the
historic Greenhills mine site, located directly east of the
golf course in Blairmore, has been a tremendous mess for quite some time –– a haunt of local youth for parties and paintball, filled with crumbling buildings and scattered debris. What may be less well known is that the provincial government is currently taking steps to clean up some of that mess and make the property significantly less hazardous.
Parker Hogan, Director of Communications for
Alberta Culture and Community Spirit, says that the province is currently undertaking a $456,000 environmental cleanup project at the Greenhills site.
He says that this is part of ongoing work across the province, which also includes environmental cleanup projects at the
Turner Valley Gas Plant and at
Bitumount in Fort MacMurray. "These are three areas that are under the jurisdiction of our department as places of historic interest," he says.
