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Steel builds the modern world: bridges, hospitals, railways, even wind turbines. But steel doesn’t just appear out of thin air.
It starts with metallurgical coal, and Alberta happens to have some of the best deposits of it anywhere on Earth.
So, when activists say Alberta shouldn’t develop it… I have to say something pretty simple. Alberta digs coal, and we’re proud of it.
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First, not all coal is the same. The coal being discussed in Alberta’s eastern slopes isn’t coal for power plants — it’s metallurgical coal, essential for producing steel.
And steel, at any meaningful industrial scale, cannot be produced without metallurgical coal. Countries around the world understand this.
The United States, the European Union, South Africa, and New Zealand have all recognized metallurgical coal as a strategic resource tied directly to infrastructure and national security.
Because if you don’t control the materials needed to make steel, you don’t control your industrial future, and Alberta happens to have some of the best undeveloped metallurgical coal deposits in the world.
That’s an opportunity.
But the conversation around coal mining in Alberta has been flooded with misinformation about a lack of oversight and polluted water.
It starts with metallurgical coal, and Alberta happens to have some of the best deposits of it anywhere on Earth.
So, when activists say Alberta shouldn’t develop it… I have to say something pretty simple. Alberta digs coal, and we’re proud of it.
…
First, not all coal is the same. The coal being discussed in Alberta’s eastern slopes isn’t coal for power plants — it’s metallurgical coal, essential for producing steel.
And steel, at any meaningful industrial scale, cannot be produced without metallurgical coal. Countries around the world understand this.
The United States, the European Union, South Africa, and New Zealand have all recognized metallurgical coal as a strategic resource tied directly to infrastructure and national security.
Because if you don’t control the materials needed to make steel, you don’t control your industrial future, and Alberta happens to have some of the best undeveloped metallurgical coal deposits in the world.
That’s an opportunity.
But the conversation around coal mining in Alberta has been flooded with misinformation about a lack of oversight and polluted water.
