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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...

Lost in the news and noise of the federal government's newly announced $170-per-tonne carbon tax was a single, critical sentence in Canada's updated climate plan, one that signals a strategy that could serve as the cornerstone for a future free of greenho

Here’s what’s coming to this central Pa. shopping center with T.J. Maxx, Five Below, Big Lots, Chipotle and Planet Fitness Updated Jan 08, 2021; Facebook Share Big changes are coming to the Hershey Square Shopping Center in Derry Township. Planet Fitness will open on February 17. And other new tenants include T.J. Maxx, Five Below, Big Lots, Chipotle and Where the Wild Things Play. Many of them are expected to open in the spring. And on Thursday, officials from Comcast confirmed that an Xfinity store is expected to open in the second quarter of the year at Hershey Square. It will be loca...

Posted: Dec 22, 2020 5:00 AM MT | Last Updated: December 27, 2020 A recent study on the feasibility of the Site C dam in northern B.C. has concluded the project could make economic sense if new transmission lines were built to move electricity between B.C. and Alberta. Such a move could also help Canada reach its climate goals, according to Mark Jaccard and Blake Shaffer.(Christer Waara/CBC)