Mining company ponders impact of restoration of coal protection policy in Alberta

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On Monday, Energy Minister Sonya Savage bowed to intense public pressure and reinstated a policy that has protected the mountains and foothills from surface coal-mining since 1976

Savage said exploration permit holders will be able to go ahead with activity such as drill sites and roads. But she also said the province’s energy regulator has been told that “mountaintop removal” is not allowed.

He said he’s not sure his company will go ahead withexploration work for which it already has permits. The pushback was fierce and came from small-town mayors, the city of Lethbridge, environmentalists, ranchers and country singers. More than 100,000 signatures were collected on petitions. He knows Albertans have questions. “Some of these questions are very legitimate, but that’s something that’s the outcome of the work we’re going to do. The outcome of that work will answer those kinds of questions.”He said the company won’t have a preliminary economic assessment until June. It might be two years before Cabin Ridge knows how it wants to proceed.

 

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Shut it down.

Find another area. Just leave our Rockies alone.

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