the Alberta government has introduced its Coal Industry Modernization Initiative, which will ban open-pit coal mining in foothills and allow metallurgical coal mining. Unveiled Dec. 20 in a joint ...

To be clear, Maria Fitzpatrick is not opposed to coal. She is opposed to open pit coal mining – a type of mining which is catastrophic for the environment. There were indeed coal mines in ...

The proposed megaproject, located on Category 4 lands, is not subject to the 1976 Coal Policy. That policy largely banned open-pit coal mining in the eastern slopes. May 2019: Billionaire Rinehart ...

A survivor of a coal mine disaster in India has shared a harrowing account of the moments after the tunnel was suddenly engulfed by water. Ravi Rai was working in the mine in the north-eastern ...

China’s top coal-producing region of Inner Mongolia produced 1.3bn tonnes in 2024, much of it from the Haerwusu open-pit coal mine, the world’s largest, owned by Shenhua Group. Haerwusu is the ...

A Piikani First Nation environmental group lobbying against a proposed open pit coal mine isn’t happy with the Alberta Government lifting a moratorium on new development and exploration in their ...

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Rinehart has long lobbied for open pit coal mines in western Alberta – something that 70 percent of Albertans oppose. Well-founded fears of selenium contamination of local rivers, and of despoiling ...

The Charlotte company has been addressing the smell stirred up by its removing water from a dormant lithium pit mine.

The mine was exempted from Alberta’s recent decision to ban mountaintop removal and open-pit coal developments, as the province deemed it an advanced proposal. Chris Spearman, the former mayor ...