HighRiverOnline12d
Corb Lund speaks out against coal mining in the foothills
The Provincial government made an announcement about coal mining last week, and it's not sitting well with everyone. Albertan ...
National Coal Mining Museum: ‘I went to visit Santa down pit before the underground closes’
Most people who go on a school trip in Yorkshire will at some point venture underground at the National Coal Mining Museum of ...
Lethbridge Herald2d
Group asking for Piikani chief to take firmer stance on coal mine
A group of Piikani Nation members are against the proposition of Grassy Mountain Coal Mine reopening and are asking their ...
Calgary Herald15d
New open-pit mines banned, steelmaking mines allowed under revised Alberta policies
New open-pit coal mines in the foothills will be banned and steelmaking coal mines permitted under policies the Alberta ...
Mining13d
Alberta to introduce ‘modern’ coal policy, including ban on new open-pit projects
Alberta has announced plans to draft new rules that will see mountaintop removal mining and open-pit coal developments prohibited on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains. In a statement on ...
CBC.ca15d
Alberta says 'modernized' coal policy coming by late 2025
No new open-pit coal mining would be allowed in the Eastern Slopes, relating to all 4 categories of the 1976 Coal Development Policy, "subject to any further regulations flowing from land use ...
CBC.ca25d
Alberta thermal coal mine expansion gets green light without federal impact assessment
"Instead, Canada is now doubling down on the mining and the export of one of the world's dirtiest fossil fuels. "By refusing to designate the Vista coal mine for an impact assessment, the federal ...