What happens when the tax gets axed?
Canada’s major political parties have all tabled plans to chop the carbon tax but there’s been little discussion on reforming the emissions levies applied to industry, which has fomented uncertainty…
Environment
JV Q&A: How Dundee Sustainable Technologies’ eco-friendly advances boost ESG credentials
Dundee Sustainable Technologies (CSE: DST) has developed two innovative metallurgical processes that offer significant environmental benefits for the mining industry. The recent tailings dam breach in the Yukon is a…
Mining Indaba: ESG costs could derail African projects, study finds
Some African mining projects could be shelved by the high cost of meeting Western environmental, social and governance criteria, according to a recent study from South African bank Absa. African…
Chile orders Lundin mine near sinkhole shut for good
Chile’s environmental authority SMA ordered on Thursday the “total and definitive” closure of Lundin Mining’s (TSX: LUN) Alcaparrosa mine after an almost three-year probe into a massive sinkhole near the operation. The…
Opinion: Trump drops a bomb on green energy
President Donald Trump has long been a supporter of traditional energy. During his campaign, he spoke negatively about electric vehicles, wind and other renewable energy sources. But in his first…
Energy Fuels, Navajo OK uranium ore transport
Energy Fuels (TSX: EFR; NYSE: UUUU), one of America’s largest uranium producers, has reached an agreement with the Navajo Nation to resume radioactive ore transport across the Indigenous community’s lands….
Ontario OKs $90M to upgrade Ring of Fire region
Queen’s Park and Aroland First Nation have signed a multi-million-dollar agreement to plan a transmission line in the remote Ring of Fire area in the province’s north. The deal also…
NGOs expose global surge in met coal mines
German non-profit Urgewald, in collaboration with 10 partner organizations, launched on Thursday the first-ever Metallurgical Coal Exit List (MCEL), which identifies the main companies driving hundreds of new metallurgical coal…
Sodium-ion batteries could rival lithium-ion in cost, Stanford study finds
Sodium-ion batteries could rival lithium-ion batteries in cost by the 2030s, according to a new Stanford study. The study by Sustainability’s Precourt Institute for Energy and the SLAC-Stanford Battery Center evaluated…
Panama seeks public input on re-opening First Quantum copper mine
Panama’s government has kicked off a public consultation on an environmental audit of First Quantum Minerals’ (TSX: FM) Cobre Panama copper mine. The Ministry of Environment (MiAmbiente) this week invited…
Sandfire America wins water rights ruling in Montana
Sandfire Resources America (TSXV: SFR) has received another positive court ruling in Montana regarding its leasing of mitigation water rights for the Black Butte copper project, which has been challenged…
Hudbay gains all permits for Copper World in Arizona
Hudbay Minerals‘ (TSX, NYSE: HBM) proposed 85,000-tonne-per-year Copper World project in Arizona is now fully permitted for development after receiving all three key state-level approvals. The Arizona Department of Environmental…