The Government of Alberta says it has an obligation to some coal companies to allow open-pit mining despite the practice being banned under the province's new coal policy, but these ...

According to them, coal is good, except where it is bad. Where it is bad, no one will be allowed to blow the tops off ...

Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The UCP government’s plan regarding coal mining in Alberta has sparked concerns ...

The move ensures environmental safeguards and protects the province's water from mining pollutants such as selenium.

New open-pit coal mines in the foothills will be banned and steelmaking coal mines permitted under policies the Alberta ...

Alberta Energy and Minerals Minister Brian Jean says the province's new coal mining policy will include a ban on new open pit mines in the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains.

“It’s a big day,” said Jean, who has been lobbied relentlessly by the Coal Association of Canada and Australian billionaire ...

The Alberta government says it is developing rules that will shape the future of coal mining in the province, but certain notable projects remain exempt from the new plan. In 2020, the province ...

Alberta Energy Regulator hearings into that project are to continue in January. Concerns over coal mining blew up in spring 2020, when the province announced it would remove rules that had ...

"By refusing to designate the Vista coal mine for an impact assessment ... endangered Athabasca rainbow trout and the bull trout, Alberta's provincial fish. A provincial assessment will take ...