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Hanna, Alta., a community northeast of Calgary, is home to Westmoreland's Sheerness coal mine. The mine employs about 100 people, while the the coal-fired electricity plant, ...
Alberta power producer TransAlta Corp. says it will end operations at its Highvale thermal coal mine west of Edmonton by the end of 2021 as it switches to natural gas at all of its operated coal ...
TransAlta also owns a 50 per cent stake in the Sheerness power plant in southern Alberta, which is operated by American firm Heartland Generation Ltd., and continues to burn coal although it has ...
And then Westmoreland Coal Co., which runs the mine that feeds Sheerness with coal, entered bankruptcy protection in 2018. Housing prices collapsed to the point where detached three-bedroom homes — ...
Since 2019, TransAlta says it has invested $295 million into its coal-to-gas program, which also included the conversion of Sundance Unit 6 and Keephills Unit 2 near Wabuman, Alta., and Sheerness ...
CALGARY, AB, Dec. 29, 2021 /PRNewswire/ - TransAlta Corporation (TSX: TA) (NYSE: TAC) ('TransAlta' or the 'Company') announced today that it has c ...
Sheerness Generating Station hosts, Unit 1 and 2, which are both 400-MW twin-furnace tangentially fired boilers originally commissioned in 1986 and 1990, respectively.
ATCO Ltd's <ACOx.TO> 378-megawatt Unit 1 at the Sheerness coal-fired power plant in Alberta, Canada, was back online early on Monday after entering an outage on Saturday, the Alberta Electric ...