Semirara Mining Corporation, the country’s largest coal producer, expects its net profit to rise more than 20 percent this year and coal revenues to jump as much as 56 percent mainly due to higher coal prices and increased exports, the company’s chief executive said Tuesday.
Semirara hopes to sustain its double-digit profit and coal revenue growth […]
Coal companies are right in the mix in the quest for environmental sustainability, one mine official says.
Twentymile Coal Co. has worked to reduce its effect on the earth from the start, Environmental Manager Jerry Nettleton said. The mine recently joined Steamboat Springs’ Sustainable Business Program to improve its practices, he said.
“It’s interesting because I get […]
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the increasing of request of coal is applied to fulfill requirement of public electric energy. In some states, improvement of exploration and supply of coal makes state […]
A push by China to reopen thousands of small coal mines exploration is failing, deepening its worst power crisis in years as local officials still fear Beijing’s wrath if they suffer high-profile disasters.
Weeks after the central government urged miners to reopen the mines, effectively reversing a years-old policy of shutting them in order to improve […]
Eleven coal miners were killed in central China’s Henan province on Thursday when a mine shaft elevator they were riding plunged 30 metres due to a mechanical failure, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
The miners were travelling up a 260 metre shaft in the elevator when a bolt broke, plunging them to their deaths, the […]
Thelon Ventures Ltd. is pleased to announce it has entered into a standstill agreement with a private USA Company, Utah Coal Properties LLC.
The terms are that UPC owns certain Coal rights and real Property in the state of Utah and Thelon has 30 days to complete its due diligence on the project. This term […]
The Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) has signed an agreement to buy a portion of the electricity from a generation plant near Waco that will burn crushed coal.
LCRA has reached a deal with Sandy Creek Energy Associates (SCEA) for a combined 22.28 percent of the total plant output from the Sandy Creek Energy Station, a […]
State regulators approved Duke Energy Corp. plans to build two new natural gas plants — operations the utility says it needs to meet growing power demand in the Carolinas.
The plants, which could produce a combined 1,240 megawatts, would be located at the Dan River coal-fired plant in Rockingham and the Buck coal-fired site in Rowan […]
Environmental activist and climate change educator Peter Sinclair and coal plant project development manager Janet Vanderpool can agree on a few things: both are seeking low-cost energy, and the U.S. government needs federal regulations to control carbon dioxide emissions.
But they don’t agree on what the role of coal should be in the future, and they […]
For the third time, Gov. Kathleen Sebelius on Friday vetoed a bill that would have authorized construction of two coal-fired power plants in western Kansas.
The bill was the Legislature’s final attempt before adjournment to strip a state regulator of the discretion he used last year to reject — because of concerns about climate change — […]