Donkin has soft metallurgical coal and some thermal coal, but because it's dug from tunnels under the ocean, it's more costly ... 21 covering Cape Breton and Nova Scotia stories.

Mines need their own power plants and transportation facilities such as runways, roads, power plants and port facilities. Greenland, with a population of just under 57,000 and a workforce of only ...

The 'Titanic' sinking became the most infamous shipwreck in history—but what really happened on that unusually calm night in ...

The Houston government has been talking about making it easier to mine in Nova Scotia as a way to make the province more self-reliant. But as Taryn Grant reports, there's only so much that can be done ...

It’s a move critics say means the province has declared open season on renewed coal mining.

The Alberta government’s newly announced Coal Industry Modernization Initiative has intensified the debate over coal mining in the province, particularly in southwestern Alberta, where concerns ...

One of the oldest power plants in the United States, perched on the edge of the nation’s largest coal mine, was slated to close in 2027. But the plant’s operator recently cancelled the ...

Nova Scotia has launched a 1-800 hotline and survey to better gauge how U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff threat is affecting businesses in the province — and to shape its “tariff ...

Northback has maintained the environmental regulations it would be forced to operate under are amongst the strictest in the world and that modern coal mining practices are very different than ...

The drive is in connection with the flooding of a 90-metre-deep rat-hole coal mine on January 6, trapping nine miners. The bodies of four miners were retrieved by January 10 but five others remain ...

The sudden freeze on coal exploration and development meant companies that took heed of the government’s policy direction and purchased new leases for potential mining found themselves stuck ...

The Assam government has detected 220 rat-hole coal mines in the Dima Hasao district’s Umrangso area, including the ill-fated one where nine miners were trapped on January 6. The State ...