“Increasingly urgent, increasingly hopeless.” Australian coal companies were given free rein over some parts of Alberta’s iconic Rockies. Now they’ve been abandoned. Groundwater oozes, weeds flourish, equipment is left and scattered. Clayton Keim reports. Clayton is a Calgary-based freelance journalist with an interest in the economy, social issues and Alberta politics. Published Friday, Sept. 8, 2023.

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