Open-pit Coal Mines

• Ottawa to conduct environmental review of new steelmaking coal projects over selenium concerns

  The decision will capture any proposals that emerge from the eight steelmaking coal exploration projects in Alberta's Rocky Mountain foothills.

  Environment

  Jun 16, 2021
  
• Opposition bill against coal mining in Rockies can proceed to legislature: committee

  Committee clerk Warren Huffman confirmed it's the first Opposition-sponsored private member's bill the committee hasn't rejected since the UCP came to power.

  Environment

  Apr 13, 2021
  
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• Alberta musician Corb Lund on proposed coal mines in Rockies: ‘I 100% oppose these policy changes’

  Alberta's United Conservative government has revoked a 1976 policy that kept coal mines out of the mountains and eastern slopes of the Rockies.

  Environment

  Jan 13, 2021