No employees were underground during Sunday night's fire at Cape Breton’s Donkin coal mine, and the Nova Scotia Department of Labour is currently investigating the cause.
On Friday, the Donkin coal mine in Cape Breton got the green light to continue running until 2029 from the provincial government’s Environment and Climate Change department.
Nova Scotia's Donkin coal mine reopened this week. But it won't be required to follow federal cap-and-trade rules, meaning greenhouse gas emissions from the site will continue unchecked.
More than a dozen roof cave-ins, 152 warnings, 119 compliance orders, 37 administrative penalties and a series of provincial stop-work orders. Nova Scotia's Donkin coal mine reopened this week, begging the question: what has changed?