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'I feel the government is trying to trick Albertans': Former civil servant on sudden coal lease cancellations David Luff, who helped implement Alberta's Coal Development Policy in 1976, says the UCP government isn't being forthright about what it's now doing with coal in the province. Social Sharing CBC News · Posted: Jan 19, 2021 1:07 PM MT | Last Updated: January 19 File photos of coal mining operations in Wyoming, at left, British Columbia, at right. Alberta has cancelled a policy that had been in place since 1976 restricting open-pit coal mining in wide swaths the Rockies and Foothills...

Posted: Jan 16, 2021 9:20 AM MT | Last Updated: January 16 More voices join Corb Lund's call to rethink Alberta's new direction on coal 3 months ago 3:12Opposition to open-pit mining is starting to gain traction months after the Alberta government cancelled a decades old coal policy preventing development of land on the eastern slopes of the Rockies. Ranchers, municipalities and well-known Albertan musicians are sounding the alarm, asking the government to reconsider.3:12

Ranchers are taking time out of their fields, farms and pastures to voice concern over a provincial government policy following public criticism from country stars Corb Lund and Paul Brandt .

Teck corporation open pit mine in Canada. | People’s Voice Australian mining corporations are already preparing to open-pit mine in the Bighorn area of the Rocky Mountains. Since 1976 Alberta’s Coal Development Policy has guided land use over many aspects of coal development, including open-pit coal mining and coal exploration in some of Alberta’s most environmentally sensitive areas. This policy was developed with extensive public consultation, to create a fair balance between environmental protection, economic development, and the social needs of all Albertans. But on June 5, Jason Ke...

Adjust font size: JAKARTA, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia's Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources will take over all mining permits managed by the provincial administrations beginning Friday. "According to Law Number 3 of 2020 about Minerals and Coal, the licensing authority will shift to the central government, namely the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, six months after the law was enacted," the ministry's Director of Coal Development and Business Sujatmiko said Thursday. The ministry has sent letters to provincial governors asking them to hand over all local mining permits. On ...