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Article content Two coal companies planning to develop mines in Alberta’s Rocky Mountains say they hope to move forward despite new regulatory and political roadblocks. “We feel that our mine plan that we are going to present is unique to the situation we’re in,” said Peter Doyle, head of Montem Resources, which hopes to build a new open-pit mine in southern Alberta on a previously worked deposit. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Coal companies hope to move forward with mines in Alberta despite roadblocks Back to video Riversdale Resou...

EDMONTON — Alberta's auditor general is criticizing the government for failing to fix problems pointed out six years ago in a program that's supposed to guarantee coal and oilsands mines clean up . . .

Two newly-released reports from Alberta's auditor general are calling on the province to address issues around its environmental liabilities and processes around criminal bail hearings and case management.

Auditor scolds Alberta over mine cleanup fund, how province handles polluted sites by Bob Weber, The Canadian Press Posted Jun 10, 2021 6:25 pm EDT Last Updated Jun 10, 2021 at 6:28 pm EDT EDMONTON — Alberta’s auditor general is criticizing the government for failing to fix problems pointed out six years ago in a program that’s supposed to guarantee coal and oilsands mines clean up after themselves. Doug Wylie says there’s so much confusion over who’s responsible for the government’s own contaminated sites that there’s no stable funding to ensure that an abandoned coal mine in ...

Alberta’s oil and gas industry is talking the talk on ESG metrics — now it needs to walk the walk, writes columnist Max Fawcett. File photo by the Government of Alberta / Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) When it comes to the growing global focus on so-called ESG (environment, social and governance) metrics, Alberta’s oil and gas industry is talking the talk. Slides have been added to investor presentation decks, committees have been struck and key messages have been developed. The UCP government is even in the midst of its own conversion on the road to climate Damascus here, one that was highl...