Alberta Coal Mines

• Federal officials say Alberta coal mine moving ahead without permits

  Environmental groups want Ottawa to enforce its rules on an Alberta coal site that has started building an underground test mine without the proper permits. 

  Canada

  Mar 7, 2024
  
• Contamination from old Alberta coal mines raises cleanup questions

  The findings raise questions about who is responsible for cleaning up legacy industrial sites.

  Environment

  Jan 30, 2024
  
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• Environment minister restores federal assessment of Hinton coal mine

  Federal Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson has reinstated his decision to subject a thermal coal mine expansion in Alberta to a federal review.

  Environment

  Oct 1, 2021
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• ‘Sacred country’: Singer-songwriter Corb Lund holds coal mining protest concert

  About 30 landowners on horseback rode onto a private property for what was billed as a "Tribute to the Mountains Concert" with musicians, including country star Corb Lund.

  Economy

  Jun 16, 2021
• Auditor scolds Alberta over mine cleanup fund, how province handles polluted sites

  "There is an impact beyond accounting and process issues," Wylie said in a briefing before his report was tabled in the legislature Thursday.

  Environment

  Jun 10, 2021
• Community involvement key to safe, reclaimable coal mines: industry scientists

  Calgary-based geotechnical engineer Gord McKenna said mines can become attractive and useful landscapes — as long as people don't expect them to look the same as they did before.

  Environment

  May 23, 2021
• Saskatchewan environmental groups welcome reinstatement of Alberta coal policy

  Water stewardship groups were concerned about downstream contamination in Saskatchewan resulting from coal mining in the Rocky Mountains.

  Canada

  Feb 9, 2021
• Alberta to reinstate 1976 coal policy revoked last spring after public outcry

  The province said Monday morning this move includes reinstating the four coal categories which dictated where and how coal leasing, exploration and development could occur.

  Politics

  Feb 8, 2021
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• Alberta promises close watch on new mines but cuts oversight of coal polluted rivers

  The province's 2019 five-year monitoring plan shows stations on two rivers and a creek polluted with selenium from coal mines were mothballed.

  Politics

  Feb 1, 2021
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• ‘Stories the numbers tell’: Critics ask why Alberta sat on coal contamination data

  Alberta Environment has pointed out that the raw data has always been public.

  Environment

  Jan 26, 2021