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With moratorium on open pit mining in Alberta lifted, Piikani First Nation environmental group plans to keep fighting
The Mountain Valley Child Society from Piikani First Nation is not happy the Alberta government quietly rescinded a ...
Government ‘must draw out lessons from Thatcher-era coal pit closures’
Tory MP David Simmonds urged the Government to learn ‘some of the lessons that we need to draw out’ of coal pit closures for ...
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Underground opportunities emerge as open pits mature
With many open pit mines in Southern Africa reaching maturity, the scope for underground mining promises to create new opportunities for shaft sinking and underground mining specialists. As a leader ...
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Alberta lifts ban on new coal exploration and development
The Alberta Government has lifted its moratorium on new coal exploration and development in the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains, a move that has drawn mixed reactions. Energy Minister Brian Jean ...
The coal-burning country killing the case for net zero
Miliband’s green energy ambitions are only helping to stoke Beijing’s chimneys ...
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Danielle Smith’s Capitulation to Big Coal Echoes Her Fawning Interactions with Donald Trump
Eliminating the moratorium on coal mining in the Eastern Rockies shows the premier puts the interests of coal barons and ...
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Alberta government lifts coal mining moratorium, critics say it’s ’open season’
EDMONTON — Alberta’s government has quietly rescinded its moratorium on new coal exploration and development in the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains. It’s a move critics say means the province ...
Utah’s coal mines can’t find enough workers, as the industry changes
In Emery County, fourth-generation coal miner Jared Simms says, “This whole area was raised on coal mining." But at 49, he ...