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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.
Boom in US Production Drives Down Natural Gas Prices
Natural gas prices have fallen dramatically this year much like crude prices, but shrinking demand is only one culprit. The other is a gas glut from a boom in U.S. production.
Two Biggest Mining Companies After Merge, An Ambition Becomes The Biggest Mine Company In World
Marius Kloppers is determined to win his $127bn battle to merge BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto, but must beat regulatory hurdles – and Rio’s opposition. Ruth Sunderland met a late starter who could become one of the globe’s most powerful men.
Marius Kloppers, chief executive of mining giant BHP Billiton, could be the patron saint of [...]
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 [...]
Coal Price In World Market and Trade Higher
As consumers struggle to get used to $4-a-gallon gasoline, there’s another source of energy that is becoming more expensive: coal.
The price of a ton of Central Appalachian coal on the futures market was $42.65 a year ago and has risen to around $96, according to figures from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. That increase comes [...]
Grants looks to reclaim title of “Uranium Capital of the World”
It might have been the tombstone for an industry.
The neatly inscribed chunk of rock 25 miles north of Grants marks the final resting place of about 7 million dry tons of tailings – the finely crushed radioactive leftovers of extracting uranium from rock – from the mill site at Ambrosia Lake.
It’s meant as a warning [...]
Utah Oil Promising Alternative Oilfield Source
Years of rising energy demands have significantly depleted traditional and easily-acquired energy resources, even as large deposits of unconventional resources have remained undeveloped due to the high expense and complicated technology involved in extracting them. But with the price of crude oil and gasoline up and supply shrinking, nontraditional resources are being seriously considered as [...]
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 [...]
