Coal Mines

Simmering internal discontent within Alberta Premier Jason Kenney’s United Conservative caucus has now boiled over into an open challenge to his leadership.

Alberta's environment minister said on Thursday, March 18, 2021, there's no plan to change water allocations in the province's arid southwest.

Alberta's environment minister is reassuring rural municipalities in the province's dry south that their water supply isn't threatened by industrial development such as coal mines.

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says Albertans have no cause to worry over his government quietly throwing out a coal policy that protected the Rocky Mountains for more than four decades.

The federal government has announced more than $50 million for research into marine and freshwater ecosystems across Canada.

The new rule limits public input on infrastructure projects and allows federal agencies to ignore climate change when reviewing projects.

Canada's export development bank is getting entirely out of the coal game but will continue to fund the oil and gas sector as the world transitions towards cleaner sources of energy.

Federal scientists are warning that burning fossil fuels is already driving a steep increase in the United States of heat waves, droughts and floods.

As many Australians grapple with how to save their Great Barrier Reef from global warming, others are preoccupied with building one of the world's biggest coal mines nearby.

For Grande Cache, Alta., the closure of its coal mine last year and the looming final shutdown of Maxim Power’s Milner coal−fired power plant has put the very future of the town itself in question.

A spokeswoman for the activists said they were protesting state−owned utility Vattenfall’s plans to sell its coal mines and power plants in Germany. They wanted the plants dismantled instead.