The Livingstone Landowners group is generally pleased with the coal policy announcement made Friday.

Bobbi Lambright says one concern they still have is the stop work command is still only a Ministerial Order and is not legislated.

"I guess the outstanding concern would be that it's only a Ministerial Order, it is not permanent protection and it's subject to a number of caveats, including that there needs to be some land use planning, and we support that, I mean we think the land use planning is essential we are looking  for some permanent legislated commitment to avoid further development," said Lambright.

There are still a number of projects on the goal that are not affected by the Ministerial Order so Lambright sees a lot of work ahead to make sure they don't proceed.

Lambright says there was also no mention about reclaiming areas already torn up after the 1976 coal policy was rescinded and crews began preliminary work.

"The minister said several times that it was a mistake to rescind the 1976 coal policy but the reality is when it was rescinded it opened the door to some very significant exploration in lands that were previously protected and there's been a lot of linear disturbance as a result and there was no discussion about how and when those areas are going to be reclaimed," she says.

There's concern that as long as those areas remain the way they are there are risks to the watershed and runoff.

Lambright says there are some positive steps forward but there still isn't the permanent protections for the area they were after.

She does give a great deal of credit to the Coal Policy Committee chaired by Ran Wallace for its work pulling together a huge magnitude of information and putting it forward in a clear and understandable way showing Albertans don't want coal mining on the eastern slopes.