Communities and businesses affected by Alberta's coal phase out will be watching election results closely Tuesday, wondering what the results will mean for an industry already in transition.

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 ...

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 ...

For example, in the immediate aftermath of Alberta’s accelerated coal phase-out, real-estate prices in Hanna, home to most of the 200 workers at the Sheerness power plant and coal mine, collapsed. The ...

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.

TransAlta chief executive Dawn Farrell says the closing will come four years ahead of its original off-coal schedule for the mine near Edmonton.

TransAlta says the conversion of the Keephills Unit 3 power plant west of Edmonton to natural gas is the last of three plant conversions from coal the company has undertaken.