A report detailing how Albertans feel about open-pit coal mining in the Rockies will be delayed by a month, says the head of the committee preparing the document.

At the heart of the controversy is Alberta’s 1976 Coal Policy, which largely banned open-pit mining in the Rockies to protect watersheds, wildlife and the province’s heritage.

Tent Mountain was the site of an open-pit mine, 16 kilometres west of Coleman in the Crowsnest Pass close to the Alberta-British Columbia border, which ceased operations in 1983.

A new study by Alberta government scientists says the province’s regulations for cleaning up old coal mines are failing to ...

Alberta regulations meant to keep old coal mines from polluting streams and lakes are failing, a new study suggests. Authors of the report found high concentrations of several pollutants in rivers ...

Earlier this year, the Alberta Energy Regulator granted an Australia-based coal company permission to start a controversial ...

open-pit coal mines videos and latest news articles; GlobalNews.ca your source for the latest news on open-pit coal mines .

CST Canada Coal operates open-pit coal mines in Grande Cache, about 430 kilometres northwest of Edmonton. In October, it applied for permits to deepen two of its pits by 155 and 210 metres.

In a brief news conference, Savage said the province would reinstate the 1976 Coal Policy, which prohibited open-pit mining on 1.5 million hectares of “Category 2” lands in the eastern slopes ...

CALGARY - The company behind a proposed open-pit coal mine in Alberta’s Rocky Mountains has filed a request to appeal a decision by a review panel that rejected the project as being not in the ...

The pit they were working on was around 3 meters deep, with two men in charge of digging accessing the hole using a hand-made wooden ladder. Grzegorz was filling the sacks with the coal to be ...

The federal government is blocking development of Glencore’s Sukunka open-pit metallurgical coal mine project located near Tumbler Ridge, B.C. Adrian Wyld / THE CANADIAN PRESS By The Canadian Press ...