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Residents of Field, B.C., had their power fully restored Wednesday morning after the supply was cut due to a Tuesday CP Rail grain train derailment west of the village.
Just before 2 a.m. Tuesday, 34 cars and one locomotive from a grain train left the tracks around 6.5 kilometres outside of Field in Yoho National Park. No injuries were reported and there was no immediate threat to public safety.
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CP Rail said that following track repairs and the completion of safety inspections, they were able to open the rail line to freight traffic early Wednesday morning.
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The Canadian Press January 22, 2021
EDMONTON Coal mining is already having an impact in Alberta’s Rocky Mountains even as debate intensifies over the industry’s presence in one of the province’s most beloved landscapes.
“They’ve been very active up there,” said Kevin Van Tighem, who lives near one of the areas now heavily leased for coal exploration.
The United Conservative government’s decision to revoke a policy that had protected the eastern slopes of the Rockies from open-pit coal mining since 1976 has convulsed the province.
Petitions opposing the move have gathered more than 100,000 signatures. Popular Alberta entertainment figures have come out against it and area ranchers and First Nations are trying to force a judicial review of the decision.
Coal mining is already having an impact in Alberta's Rocky Mountains even as debate intensifies over the industry's presence in one of the province's most beloved landscapes.
Coal mining is already having an impact in Alberta s Rocky Mountains even as debateintensifies over the industry s presence in one of the province s most beloved landscapes."They ve been very active . . .