How can an Australian open-pit coal mining project unequivocally denied by a joint review panel as well as two courts of appeal still be regarded as an “advanced coal project” by Alberta regulators?
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Northback, formerly known as Benga Mining, appears to be attempting to resurrect the Grassy Mountain project, a proposed coal mine rejected by the provincial and federal governments.
The province's regulator appears to have accepted coal mining applications to renew a project that has already been denied say members of a group that recommended a pause on coal mining in Alberta's Rocky Mountains.