coal mining

Official plans call for boosting coal production capacity by 300 million tons this year, according to news reports. That is equal to 7% of last year’s output of 4.1 billion tons, which was an increase of 5.7% over 2020.

Montem Resources is one of the companies considering the Alberta government's decision last month to extend a pause on coal development on the summits and eastern slopes of the Rockies.

Health risks come from chronic exposure to coal dust particles over many years.

"Environment Canada got pushback," said Bill Donahue, an environmental scientific consultant and former head of monitoring for the Alberta government. "It dramatically reduced the proposed standards in terms of their stringency."

Extractive industry laid the infrastructure for the suburban sprawl that fuelled Colorado’s destructive Marshall Fire.

Alberta's energy minister says she has received two reports that will determine the future of coal mining in the province's Rocky Mountain foothills and eastern slopes.

The Opposition in Alberta hopes to build on a buoyant 2021 during which the New Democrats outpaced Premier Jason Kenney’s United Conservatives in popularity polls and fundraising.

Coal-based energy and fossil fuel subsidies are singled out in the Glasgow Climate Pact, but they are surrounded by weasel words that water down any impact, writes Owen Leggatt Stewart.

Coal mining on environmentally sensitive slopes of Alberta's Rocky Mountains wouldn't be an overall benefit to the province, a wide-ranging analysis from the University of Calgary has concluded.

About 2,500 people in western Germany demonstrated on Saturday, August 7, 2021, for a quick halt to coal mining in the region, where a village could be bulldozed to make way for a mine.

As the Poplar River mine prepares to wind down, area residents are fighting for the future of Coronach and other area towns where livelihoods will vanish when coal leaves town

Lack of adequate conservation measures by provinces and territories is to blame for Canada failing to meet its international conservation target, according to a new report by the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS).

In its 680-page report released Thursday, the joint federal-provincial panel questioned the ability of Benga Mining, owned by Riversdale Resources, to control the release of selenium from its proposed Grassy Mountain mine. 

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