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The Fate of the Canadian Rockies May Rest on This Decision
The Fate of the Canadian Rockies May Rest on This Decision Approving the Grassy Mountain Coal Project could enable industrializing Alberta’s sensitive and vital eastern slopes. Ranching on the eastern slopes of the Canadian Rockies in southern Alberta near the proposed Grassy Mountain Coal Project. Locals told a joint panel they fear the mine will […]
Months Before Albertans Were Told, Australian Miners Knew Plans to Axe Coal Policy
Months Before Albertans Were Told, Australian Miners Knew Plans to Axe Coal Policy Investor presentations signalled the Kenney government aimed to open protected lands to open-pit mining. Documents show Australian firms seeking open-pit coal mining leases in Alberta got signals protections to sensitive lands would be lifted, clearing the way. The public only found out […]
Threatened by Coal, Ranchers Take the Kenney Government to Court
Threatened by Coal, Ranchers Take the Kenney Government to Court Alberta is poised to let miners destroy mountaintops and vital watersheds grazed for a century. Mac Blades (foreground) carries on his family’s 100-year ranching tradition on the slopes of Alberta’s Rockies. He and his wife Renie joined a lawsuit to stop open-pit coal mining in […]
Alberta’s Environment Minister Cheered on Coal Mining in New Areas before Restrictions Were Dropped
Alberta’s Environment Minister Cheered on Coal Mining in New Areas before Restrictions Were Dropped Months before ending the Coal Policy, the Kenney government issued letters of support for open-pit projects. Coal mining along Alberta’s Rockies. Months before a large zone along the eastern slopes was opened to coal strip mining, two Alberta ministers endorsed an […]
Indonesian Coal Mining Boom Is Leaving Trail of Destruction
Indonesian Coal Mining Boom Is Leaving Trail of Destruction Since 2000, Indonesian coal production has increased five-fold to meet growing domestic demand for electricity and feed export markets in Asia. The intensive mining is leading to the clearing of rainforest and the pollution of rivers and rice paddies. Standing on a hilltop in Kerta Buena, an […]
Not on This Land: A Western Tribe Takes a Stand and Says No to Big Coal
Not on This Land: A Western Tribe Takes a Stand and Says No to Big Coal The Northern Cheyenne are opposing a proposed railroad that would cut through their ancestral lands to haul Montana coal to the Pacific coast for export. An e360 video reports on the Cheyenne’s fight against the railroad and the extraordinary coalition […]
A Bad Week For Coal Mining Industry, Even Worse for Peabody Energy
A Bad Week For Coal Mining Industry, Even Worse for Peabody Energy It’s been a really bad week for major U.S. coal companies as we head into the July 4th holiday weekend. St. Louis-based Peabody Energy (NYSE: BTU) closed today at $1.87 a share, down from a high of $84 per share in mid-2008. The company’s chief financial officer Michael C. Crews […]
The senility of elites: coal mining must continue, no matter what the human costs
The senility of elites: coal mining must continue, no matter what the human costs The coal mine of Bihar, India. Photo by Nitin Kirloskar This post was inspired by a recent article about coal mining in India by David Rose in the Guardian about coal mining. In India, people are dying in the streets because of excessive heat […]
Environmentalists Win Federal Lawsuit Over Colorado Coal Mines
Environmentalists Win Federal Lawsuit Over Colorado Coal Mines Environmentalists won big May 8 in a lawsuit brought against the federal government over two coal mines near the northern Colorado town of Craig. The nonprofit environmental group WildEarth Guardians sued the U.S. Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM), a bureau within the U.S.Department of the Interior, over permits granted in […]
Lord Ridley: Make Mine A Large One!
Lord Ridley: Make Mine A Large One! Lord Ridley, the landed aristocrat and prominent climate denier, will start work this year on two new profitable opencast coal mines close to his Grade I listed stately home and acres of beautiful national park that make up his 8,500-acre estate. The Ridley-White family has owned the stunning Blagdon Estate in Northumbria since 1700, where […]
A Scourge for Coal Miners Stages a Brutal Comeback by Ken Ward Jr.: Yale Environment 360
A Scourge for Coal Miners Stages a Brutal Comeback by Ken Ward Jr.: Yale Environment 360. Black lung — a debilitating disease caused by inhaling coal dust — was supposed to be wiped out by a landmark 1969 U.S. mine safety law. But a recent study shows that the worst form of the disease now […]
