Coal

Coal - Overview
Thursday, June 4, 2009

Coal is generally obtained through open pit mining. Major coal reserves are found in China, the United States, India, Australia, Russia, Poland, Indonesia and Japan. Coal is mainly used for the production of electricity and heat. When used in a power plant, coal emits sulphur gas (containing sulphur dioxide, sulphur trioxide and sulphuric acid mist). This sulphur gas contributes to the formation of acid rain.

Coal
State of Mine: The Dominion Newspaper's Special Issue on Mining
Monday, November 17, 2008

The Dominion Newspaper is a cooperative, independent, grass roots publication. A special edition, State of Mine: An Investigation of Canada's Extractive Industries was published in November 2008 and is available online at: www.dominionpaper.ca/issue/55. The online edition features 37 articles on mining issues in Canada and internationally, including articles by MiningWatch Canada's Ramsey Hart and former National Coordinator Joan Kuyek.

Argentina, Asbestos in Québec, Congo - Democratic Republic, Labrador, Udon Thani - Asia Pacific Resources, British Columbia, Nevada, Newfoundland & Labrador, Tanzania, Coal, New Caledonia, Ecuador, Papua New Guinea, El Salvador, Ontario, Guatemala, Economics & Taxation, Mexico, Suriname, Impact on Communities, Tar Sands, Uranium, World Bank/International Financial Institutions
Book Review: The Profits of Extermination: How U.S. Corporate Power is Destroying Colombia by Francisco Ramírez Cuellar
Wednesday, September 7, 2005

The Profits of Extermination looks at the links between foreign corporations and human rights violations in Colombia. Where corporations have sought access to Colombia's resources - oil, coal, gold, emeralds - they have used paramilitary violence, forced displacement, massacres, and disappearance as tactics to remove populations and secure their investments.

Corporate Accountability, Colombia, Coal, Newsletter 19: Summer 2005
BACKGROUNDER: Cheviot Mine
Tuesday, April 13, 2004

Sierra Club of Canada/MiningWatch Canada

First proposed in 1996 and reviewed by federal-provincial hearings in 1997 and 2000, Cheviot was not developed due its poor economics and public opposition. Now the company has commenced a different and potentially more destructive mine project. In 1997, Ottawa papers reported that the federal government had delayed their decision on Cheviot while they "worked on a strategy to sell the controversial project to the public."?

Alberta, Coal, Parks and Protected Areas, Sherritt Gordon
Conservation Groups Call On Federal Government and Teachers to Act Quickly Over Cheviot Coal Mine
Monday, April 12, 2004

[Joint news release] Sierra Club of Canada (SCC) and MiningWatch Canada have launched a three-pronged campaign of action to stop the massive and highly controversial Cheviot open-pit coal mine. Spanning a width equivalent to that of Alberta's capitol, Edmonton, Cheviot would strip the heart out of a nationally significant wildland, located adjacent to Jasper National Park.

Alberta, Coal, Parks and Protected Areas, Sherritt Gordon, Teck
Cheviot Mine Proposal on Hold: Action Alert!
Tuesday, June 3, 2003

On April 2, 2003, after six years of saying the Cheviot mine would be developed despite public opposition, owners of the Fording Coal Partnership announced they will not develop the mine after all and have shelved it for an indefinite period. They’ve pulled the plug on what was to be a massive open-pit coal mine located on critical wildlife habitat adjacent to Jasper National Park and in the core of the proposed Mountain Park.

Alberta, Coal, Newsletter 12: Spring 2003, Parks and Protected Areas

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