Days after the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) approved a controversial exploratory coal mining project in the Rocky Mountains, concerned residents protested in the Crowsnest Pass to voice their ...

The Grassy Mountain area hosted at least four coal mines in the past, the last of which closed in 1983. The report noted that in 2021 the federal government rejected on environmental grounds ...

The Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) released on Friday its decision to approve an exploration program, a deep drill permit and a temporary diversion licence for the Grassy Mountain coal project in ...

Her government actively supports new coal mining projects in the Rockies, including reviving the controversial open-pit Grassy Mountain project even though a majority of Alberta’s population ...

Amid ongoing debate over proposed coal mining at Grassy Mountain and the potential for selenium contamination in regional waterways, the Municipal District of Pincher Creek continues to ...

Alberta’s top court has dismissed appeals made by an Australia-based mining company and two ... Northback’s request to explore for coal at Grassy Mountain, a ruling that critics found ...

Premier Danielle Smith, three United Conservative Party cabinet ministers and the local MLA are hosting a coal town hall Wednesday evening in Fort Macleod to “address concerns” about the ...

"This is your wonderful landscape and it's about to be compromised from Grassy Mountain to Grande Cache with open pit coal mines and it will ruin forever your watersheds." However, not everyone is ...

Alberta’s top court has dismissed appeals made by an Australia-based mining company and two First Nations ... On May 15, the AER approved Northback’s request to explore for coal at Grassy Mountain, a ...

Tent Mountain ... the 1976 Coal Policy that effectively protected the Rockies from open-pit mining, Montem then joined in a coal rush, largely led by Australian speculators. Map showing Montem ...

The Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) has rendered its decision allowing Northback Holdings to proceed with more coal exploration on Grassy Mountain — the zombie-like coal mine proposal that will ...