Alberta is planning new mountaintop-removal coal mines. Here’s what that looks like
Debate has swirled as Alberta opens up a large swath of the Rocky Mountains' eastern...
Canada is home to some of the world’s largest mining companies and major mining operations. The top five minerals mined in 2016 in Canada were gold, copper, potash, iron ore and coal. Mining contributed greatly to the economic development of Canada over the last century. However in more recent years the high environmental and social impacts of mining has cast the industry in a new light. While scientific and public understanding of the impacts of mining has changed dramatically in recent years, regulations have been slow to keep pace.
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Debate has swirled as Alberta opens up a large swath of the Rocky Mountains' eastern...
The Yukon Water Board is asking the public to weigh in as the territory considers...
The First Nation of Na-Cho Nyäk Dun said the controversial all-seasons road would have ‘fundamentally...
The destructive impacts of three coal mines on critical caribou habitat were justified by promised...
The proposed access route, controversially approved without a land use plan, would have opened up...
Canada and the U.S. are bound together by waterways that transcend political borders. But what...
Demand for certain mined minerals is projected to increase exponentially in the coming decades. Experts...
'People are generally unsatisfied with the status quo'
Valuable, roadless wilderness in the Dawson region could become protected under a new land use...
On Valentine’s Day, a small group of Wet’suwet’en people gathered outside a Coastal GasLink pipeline work camp in northwest B.C. to hold a ceremony to...
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