Alberta regulator accepts Rockies coal mine application, will call public hearing
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CROWSNEST PASS, AB – Alberta’s energy regulator says it will accept an application and open hearings into a controversial open-pit coal mine on the southern slopes of the province’s Rocky Mountains.
In a letter dated Thursday, the Alberta Energy Regulator says it has decided the Grassy Mountain proposal should be considered an advanced project and be exempt from a ministerial order banning coal development along the province’s eastern slopes.
The letter says the regulator reached the decision after receiving a note from Energy Minister Brian Jean suggesting the project falls into the exempt category.
It says the application will go before a public hearing, although it doesn’t set out the rules for that hearing or who will be eligible to appear before it.
