Amid the ongoing controversy over the Grassy Mountain Coal Mine project, the Alberta government has introduced its Coal Industry Modernization Initiative, which will ban open-pit coal mining in foothi ...

I interrupted my Christmas shopping to listen with rapt attention to Energy Minister Brian Jean and Environment and Protected ...

Canada's Alberta Government is poised to introduce stringent regulations on coal mining, including a ban on mountaintop ...

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 ...

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 ...

Evolve’s Peter Doyle says the provincial government is undermining the economy by failing to develop new coal development ...

Alberta coal mine moves ahead without permits federal officials say are needed But by then the Department of Fisheries and Oceans had reviewed plans for both projects and decided they required ...

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 ...

Government officials said Friday that mountaintop removal coal mining has not occurred in Alberta. The new bans wouldn’t apply to what are considered advanced proposals, including the proposed ...

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 ...

"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 ...

A large expansion of a massive thermal coal mine near Hinton, Alta., has been given the go-ahead by the federal government, without a federal impact assessment. The Impact Assessment Agency of Canada ...