Amid the ongoing controversy over the Grassy Mountain Coal Mine project, the Alberta government has introduced its Coal Industry Modernization Initiative, which will ban open-pit coal mining in ...

The Government of Alberta says it has an obligation to some coal companies to allow open-pit mining despite the practice being banned under the province’s new coal policy, but these ...

The project includes the construction of “a new satellite open-cut pit” within the facility of the existing mining operation. It is, in all but name, a new coal mine. The approval of the three ...