New Horizons: Oilsands mine closure inspired by Mother Nature
Mine closure plans in Alberta’s oilsands are being made with a new advisor in mind: Mother Nature.
Environment
Northwest Transmission Line gets environmental approvals
Vancouver – Mining projects in British Columbia’s northwest are another step closer to tapping into the provincial grid after the federal government gave the environmental go-ahead for the Northwest Transmission Line.
Commentary: Five perspectives on oilsands closure
Much of the discussion these days around oilsands extraction in Alberta has focused on what the area can and should look like after closure.
Commentary: Another view of doing business in the Congo
For the past six and a half years, our company, Banro (BAA-T, BAA-X), has been engaged in intensive mineral exploration in what many consider to be one of the less fashionable addresses on Earth: the Democratic Republic of the Congo…
MAC: Environmental group’s report is flawed
The following was released by the Ottawa-based Mining Association of Canada (MAC) in response to the PEW Environmental Group’s report “A forest of blue – Canada’s boreal forest, the world’s water keeper.” For more information visit…
Editorial: Grim time for US coal miners
As we go to press, the worst mining disaster in the U.S. or Canada in more than two decades has just occurred at Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch underground metallurgical coal mine in Montcoal, W. Va…
Syncrude Works At Reclamation In The Oilsands
Having been one of the earlier entrants into the oilsands in the 1970s, Syncrude, one of the largest oilsands operators, has had some practice with reclamation.
Teck Ordered To Pay US Natives $1M For Trail Smelter Pollution
VANCOUVER– After exhausting its appeal options, Teck (TCK. B-T, TCK-N) has been ordered to pay more than US$1 million to an American Indian tribe to reimburse legal expenses it incurred trying to for…
Commentary: Asbestos mortality: a Canadian export
— The following is an edited version of an editorial that appeared in the Oct. 21, 2008, edition of the Canadian Medical Association Journal. The footnotes have been removed, but are available in the…
Commentary: Climate change’s ‘consensus?’
The adage “history repeats itself” could have been invented to describe the science of geology. As it is axiomatic that present geological processes are for the most part, replays of past events, deci…
Letter to the editor: Watch out
—The following is an edited version of an open letter dated June 27, 2007, addressed to Joan Kuyek, National Co-ordinator of Mining Watch Canada, an anti-mining, non-governmental organization based in…