Abstract
At the 2010 awards ceremony of the Canadian Country music Association, altcountry artist Corb lund closed the evening’s show with a stirring rendition of “This is my prairie” (2009), a song that addresses the impact of Alberta’s everexpanding energy industry on small and familyowned ranching operations. inspired by his mother’s fight to keep coal bed methane projects from drilling into their family’s ranch in the foothills of southern Alberta, lund’s song relays a young man’s struggle to defend his family’s ranch from development and boldly warns the fossil fuel industry that he will protect his homeland at all costs:
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