Coal’s revival is creating divisions in Canada’s energy heartland
Financial Post ·
About 70 per cent of the world’s steel supply depends on metallurgical coal and Canada is the fifth-largest global supplier
At the top of Grassy Mountain, some 6,700 feet above sea level, seams of coal are baked into the mountainside, visible through mining in this stretch of the Rocky Mountains in southwestern Alberta from the early to mid-1900s. This and other former mines dot the picturesque mountain towns on the eastern side of the continental divide, the industry having moved out of the region decades ago after plummeting prices and demand made mining here unprofitable. Read More