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Two coal companies planning to develop mines in Alberta’s Rocky Mountains say they hope to move forward despite new regulatory and political roadblocks.
“We feel that our mine plan that we are going to present is unique to the situation we’re in,” said Peter Doyle, head of Montem Resources, which hopes to build a new open-pit mine in southern Alberta on a previously worked deposit.
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Riversdale Resources, which had its proposed Benga Mine denied last week by regulators, said in a statement it will study the decision to ensure it was fair.
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A fourth request has been made to the federal government to get involved in the environmental review of a coal mine proposed for Alberta’s Rocky Mountains.
Landowners, Indigenous people and environmental groups have sent a letter to Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson asking for a joint federal-provincial review of Montem Resource’s Tent Mountain project.
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“It’s important for the minister to understand that the concern is quite widespread,” said Bobbi Lambright of the Livingstone Landowners Group, one of the signatories to the letter.
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