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Share As backlash erupted last year in response to the Alberta government's plans to open up large swaths of the Rocky Mountain region to metallurgical coal mines, alternative plans were already afoot in the global steel-making industry. Companies have introduced technologies that could eliminate their centuries-old reliance on metallurgical coal, including plans to be entirely free of fossil fuels in just over 20 years. Photo: Shutterstock “We’re going down to zero.”  That’s what Thomas Hörnfeldt, vice president of sustainable business ...

Share According to the Alberta government, mines like this one in the southwestern corner of the province wouldn’t be classified as mountaintop-removal mines because they don't “completely” remove the top of the mountain. Photo: Callum Gunn In-Depth Here’s why Alberta’s ban on mountaintop-removal mining won’t affect proposed coal mines in the Rockies When the government said it would put an ‘outright ban on mountaintop mining,’ many Albertans rejoiced. But Alberta’s energy regulator says that only applies if the top of a...

Share Alberta reversed course on its plans to allow for surface coal mining in the eastern slopes of the Rockies earlier this week, but that doesn't mean the region won't face any pressure from coal developments. Photo: Shutterstock Explainer 9 things that haven’t changed since Alberta’s about-face on coal mining policy The United Conservative Party was backed into a corner on its decision to open up the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains to open-pit mines. But it hasn't completely abandoned its push to allow more coal projects in ...

Share An aerial view of a Rocky Mountain coal mine in B.C.'s Elk Valley near the B.C.-Alberta border. This past summer the Alberta government opened up much of the eastern slopes of the Rockies to similar coal mines but reversed course after significant public backlash. Photo: Callum Gunn In-Depth How a public uprising caused a province built on fossil fuels to reverse course on coal mining Country music stars, conservationists and tens of thousands of Albertans came together to roll back plans for mountaintop-removal mining in the Rockie...