Woman swims across reservoir that supplies her city’s water to protest coal mines that could put it at risk: In B.C., open pit mines have leached selenium into rivers in the Elk
Valley area for years. Selenium is a metal that is safe in water in low
levels, but in high levels can cause nausea or even neurological
problems from long-term exposure.

“The way the province rescinded the coal policy from the ’70s, they
did it with no public consultation and it happened really quietly,” she
said.

“I get that we need jobs and I get that we’re struggling, but I think
that even in a desperate time we need to think long term and not forget
that what we do today will impact 50 to 100 years down the road and
it’s not just about the next 10 to 20 years.”

Woman swims across reservoir that supplies her city’s water to protest coal mines that could put it at risk: In B.C., open pit mines have leached selenium into rivers in the Elk
Valley area for years. Selenium is a metal that is safe in water in low
levels, but in high levels can cause nausea or even neurological
problems from long-term exposure.“The way the province rescinded the coal policy from the ’70s, they
did it with no public consultation and it happened really quietly,” she
said.“I get that we need jobs and I get that we’re struggling, but I think
that even in a desperate time we need to think long term and not forget
that what we do today will impact 50 to 100 years down the road and
it’s not just about the next 10 to 20 years.”Read More

First grid-scale battery storage project in Alberta, Canada, comes online this month: The first grid-scale battery energy storage project in the Canadian province of Alberta is on-track to go into operation this month, while TransAlta, the company behind the project, has expedited plans to retire a coal plant citing “future market conditions”.

TransAlta Corporation, which generates and is engaged in wholesale marketing of electricity, is building the WindCharger 10MW / 20MWh lithium-ion battery storage project in the municipal district of Pincher Creek, through its subsidiary Western Sustainable Power Corporation.

The company is targeting 100% clean electricity by 2025 and just before the end of July announced that it is retiring its mothballed 368MW Sundance 3 coal power plant with immediate effect. In its financial results, TransAlta said that it had roughly equalled its performance for the first half of this year with last year’s results, driven in part by good performance of wind and solar production from its utility-scale projects, although was also somewhat reliant on favourable gross margins in the US coal segment.

First grid-scale battery storage project in Alberta, Canada, comes online this month: The first grid-scale battery energy storage project in the Canadian province of Alberta is on-track to go into operation this month, while TransAlta, the company behind the project, has expedited plans to retire a coal plant citing “future market conditions”.TransAlta Corporation, which generates and is engaged in wholesale marketing of electricity, is building the WindCharger 10MW / 20MWh lithium-ion battery storage project in the municipal district of Pincher Creek, through its subsidiary Western Sustainable Power Corporation.The company is targeting 100% clean electricity by 2025 and just before the end of July announced that it is retiring its mothballed 368MW Sundance 3 coal power plant with immediate effect. In its financial results, TransAlta said that it had roughly equalled its performance for the first half of this year with last year’s results, driven in part by good performance of wind and solar production from its utility-scale projects, although was also somewhat reliant on favourable gross margins in the US coal segment.Read More