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Brandon Sun By: The Canadian Press Last Modified: 5:14 PM CDT Friday, Jul. 16, 2021 Save to Read Later 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 public interest. A sign opposing coal development is shown in the eastern slopes of the Livingston range southwest of Longview, Alta., Wednesday, June 16, 2021.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh CALGARY - The company behind a proposed ...

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 public interest. Benga Mining Limited filed the request Friday with the Court of Appeal of Alberta in regard to its Grassy Mountain Coal Project. In the court filing, Benga says a June 17 decision by a joint federal-provincial review panel, including the Alberta Energy Regulator, contains errors of law and procedural fairness that warrant the granting of permission to appeal. In the June decision, t...

In the court filing, Benga says a June 17 decision by a joint federal-provincial review panel, including the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER), contains errors of law and procedural fairness that warrant the granting of permission to appeal. In the June decision, the review panel said the significant adverse environmental effects on westslope cutthroat trout and surface water quality likely to be caused by the mine outweigh the low to moderate positive economic impacts of the project. Benga says the metallurgical coal mine in the Crowsnest Pass area of southwestern Alberta would create hundred...

  LETHBRIDGE -- The Alberta government is being asked to explain why Benga Mining is possibly moving ahead with exploratory work on a Crowsnest Pass coal project, even though its application was rejected by a joint provincial-federal review panel. New documents show Benga Mining — operating as Riversdale Resources — has been granted licences to divert water for drilling and dust suppression for exploratory boreholes for the Grassy Mountain project, seven kilometers north of Blairmore. The approval was granted June 30, less than two weeks after the Joint Review Panel ruled the project...

A joint federal-provincial review has denied an application for an open-pit coal mine in Alberta's Rocky Mountains.