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 ...

Alberta’s government is announcing new coal mining regulations, expected by the end of 2025, along with a round of consultations with industry players on how to implement them.

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 ...

New open-pit coal mines in the foothills will be banned and steelmaking coal mines permitted under policies the Alberta government unveiled Friday. But the Alberta Coal Industry Modernization ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 moved ...

Alberta is developing a new coal policy nearly three years after it instituted a moratorium on coal exploration in the wake of a furious public backlash against mining. The proposed changes are ...