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The federal government is committing $14.7 million to fight aquatic invasive species in five mountain national parks in Alberta and British Columbia, Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault announced on Saturday, December 4, 2021.

The federal government says the proposed Grassy Mountain coal project in southwestern Alberta cannot proceed.

Opposition to Alberta's attempt to expand coal mining in the Rocky Mountains is growing with two more towns expressing concerns and a legislature member with the governing United Conservatives backing them up.

The federal government will join an environmental assessment of a major expansion to a proposed southern British Columbia coal mine.

Teck Resources says it's baffled over the virtual disappearance of a rare fish from a lengthy stretch of a long-contaminated river downstream from the company's coal-mining operations in southeastern British Columbia.