Search Results
Coal Mining Permit Expasion in Northern Arizona Approved
A controversy over coal mining in northern Arizona reached a milestone Dec. 22 when a federal agency gave the go-ahead for Peabody Western Coal Co. to expand an existing long-term permit on Black Mesa, home to Navajo and Hopi villages.
Rusian Mining Exploration Company, Russia’s Norilsk Nickel Stretches From Arctic to SA, US to Australia
In July 2007, a Canada-domiciled mining company was acquired by a Russian group for $5,2-billion. That company was LionOre, and it had assets in Southern Africa – an 85% share in Tati Nickel, in Botswana, and a 50% stake in Nkomati Nickel, in South Africa.
LionOre’s buyer was the giant Russian mining and metallurgical group, OJSC [...]
High oil prices fuel winter heat fears
Nowhere in America, it seems, are people more apprehensive about the prospect of a $3-a-gallon winter than in Maine.
Motorists nationwide may grumble about gasoline prices now hovering around $3 for a gallon of regular, but home heating oil that soared this month to $3.09 a gallon — breaking the $3 barrier for the first time [...]
Alberta starts taxing worst air polluters next week; deadline to pay is next March
Alberta’s new tax on emissions starts July 1 and will cost dozens of industrial giants roughly $175 million a year as the province cracks down on the growing belch of greenhouse gases.
But some of these extra costs will end up on consumer power bills as utilities look to share the pain of this $15 per [...]
Ghanaians express fear over oil discovery
FEARS HAVE been expressed by some Ghanaians that the discovery of oil in Ghana might be a resource curse rather than a blessing, citing the example of Nigeria and the poor state of Tarkwa and Obuasi after several years of gold mining gold.
A cross-section of Ghanaians the Business Chronicle spoke to expressed the fear because [...]
BRAZIL’S NEWEST BOOM TOWN BRINGS QUICK RICHES ALONG WITH CRIME, HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS
It’s a gold rush in the jungle, driven by the Internet.
Speeding past unbroken walls of foliage, a motorboat packed with gritty prospectors veers toward the shore of the Juma river. Rising up along the steep, muddy banks, a city of black plastic lean-tos appears veiled by greasy smoke.
All around them are newly dug pits, felled [...]
Big Oil cautious about clean-energy spending
Critics want more from firms earning billions
To most people, a half-billion-dollar investment in biofuel research looks like serious money.
That’s the amount oil giant BP said last week it will spend to create an alternative energy research center with UC Berkeley, the University of Illinois and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
The research center represents the latest example [...]
Northern Michigan investing time into energy
Michael and Tammy Buttigieg live the rustic Northern Michigan life.
Their log cabin home overlooks God’s country, where acres of trees nestle along a flowing creek.
On a recent afternoon, Michael hears the humming.
“It’s music to my ears,” Buttigieg said. “When you do hear it, it’s soothing.”
When the Buttigiegs made the move to Northern Michigan in 1998, [...]
Sherritt’s plans for $1.5B coal strip mine raise questions
Residents of East Central Alberta are about to see their landscape drastically change in the next five years.
On Monday, Sherritt announced the final Terms of Reference and made available their Public Disclosure Document for the Dodds – Round Hill Coal Gasification project.
This Project will be located approximately 80 kilometres southeast of Edmonton just south of [...]
