A $9,000 fine levied against a coal company for releasing mine-contaminated wastewater into a northwestern Alberta river is a weak reprimand for the toxic leak, critics say. CST Canada Coal ...

A large expansion of a massive thermal coal mine near Hinton ... for the endangered Athabasca rainbow trout and the bull trout, Alberta's provincial fish. A provincial assessment will take ...

Alberta’s premier at the time ... including toxic coal dust, water contamination, strip mining, landscape destruction and toxic selenium pollution,” the Tyee reports. It’s somewhat understandable, ...

In January, Alberta’s government cited the threat ... as the decision still allows other forms of coal mining such as strip-mining. “I don’t know why the Australians are so interested ...

At coal mines, it escapes into groundwater and out of the pond effluent. High winds blow toxic coal particulate from extraction equipment, stockpiles, conveyors and railway cars. One Alberta ...