At least two members of the group that advisable a pause on coal mining in Alberta’s Rocky Mountains are involved the province’s regulator seems to have accepted purposes to resume a undertaking that has already been denied.
Last week, the Australia-based firm Northback Holdings — previously often called Benga Mining Limited and a part of Australian guardian firm Hancock Prospecting — resurrected a proposal for the Grassy Mountain steelmaking coal mine in southern Alberta, making use of for 3 licences from the Alberta Energy Regulator.
That’s regardless of the undertaking being denied by each Alberta and Ottawa, in addition to a provincial order that forbids any coal exercise on these lands.
For years, the corporate has been making an attempt to assemble and function an open-pit metallurgical coal mine close to the Crowsnest Pass, roughly seven kilometres north of the neighborhood of Blairmore in southwest Alberta.
Ron Wallace and Bill Trafford, each members of the committee that advisable the pause to the federal government, are involved the latest purposes violate each the spirit and letter of the order that enacted that moratorium.
Trafford says he can’t see how the regulator can settle for the purposes and transfer ahead on them with out violating authorities coverage.
Wallace, who headed the fee in to coal mining, calls the purposes very regarding.
Spokespeople from Northback, the regulator or the provincial authorities weren’t instantly obtainable.
