The Alberta government is renewing and expanding its restrictions on coal mining in the province’s Rocky Mountains.
Energy Minister Sonya Savage says a ministerial order banning coal exploration and development on the most sensitive of those lands will continue.
And she says it will be extended to cover a much wider swath of the province’s summits and foothills.
That order will remain in effect until land-use planning for the affected areas is complete.
More to come …
