DURANT — Senator Jay Paul Gumm, and the Citizens Organizing for Resources and Environment, spoke out against the construction of the coal-fired power plant that TXU purposes to build in Fannin County. Experts in several scientific and health fields spoke to approximately 60 people in the Fine Arts Building at Southeastern Oklahoma State University [...]

Global Alumina Corporation announced that the Company has been informed that the proposed joint venture with an affiliate of BHP Billiton, Dubai Aluminium Company Limited (”DUBAL”) and Mubadala Development Company PJSC (”Mubadala”) to develop and operate the Company’s alumina refinery project in the Republic of Guinea has received board approvals from two joint venture partners, [...]

India’s leading steel-maker Essar Steel has won the prospecting licence for Chhattisgarh’s Bailadila deposits, which has one of the world’s finest quality iron ore stocks. This happened after a state-run firm’s lease expired unutilised.
The central government has approved the Chhattisgarh government’s proposal to award the prospecting license to Essar Steel for a 2,285-hectare stretch in [...]

Kenartha Oil & Gas Company Limited, an explorer and developer of natural gas resources, is pleased to announce that the company is in the process of raising CDN $2,200,000 for the drilling of the next 15 wells in the expansion program in southern Ontario, Canada.
The Offering consists of 400,000 units in the capital stock of [...]

When the soil in Roger Muggli’s fields turned bad last year, damaging more than 300 acres of alfalfa, the third-generation farmer quickly named a culprit: coal-bed methane drilling along the nearby Tongue River.
Muggli’s finger-pointing has made him few friends in a region where economic development is desperately needed and future coal-bed methane production could mean [...]

JACKSON - The Jackson Hole Chamber of Commerce says it opposes oil and gas development in the Bridger-Teton National Forest.
The chamber on Wednesday wrote to forest Supervisor Kniffy Hamilton stating that energy development on forest lands would hurt recreation and the regional economy.
More than half of the 3.4 million acre forest is open to [...]

Natural gas drilling in the Southern Tier, once heavily weighted in favor of the drilling companies, is now shifting toward the landowners’ interests.
Two factors are pushing the pendulum. One is a new policy, implemented in August 2005, which allows parties with land in a well unit to buy their way into the drilling of that [...]

GILLETTE - After reaching record numbers in 2006, the number of rigs drilling for natural gas and oil has dropped dramatically in Wyoming, with the state falling behind Colorado in active drilling rigs for the first time in nine years.
“A lot of people are having to go somewhere else with the rigs,” Wyoming Oil and [...]

MILES CITY, Mont. — When the soil in Roger Muggli’s fields turned bad last year, damaging more than 300 acres of alfalfa, the third-generation farmer quickly named a culprit: coal-bed methane drilling along the nearby Tongue River.
Muggli’s finger-pointing has made him few friends in a region where economic development is desperately needed and future coal-bed [...]

ANSTED — A few years ago, residents watched as racers slid down a steep road in this Fayette County town in a fast-moving street luge event.
However, a plan to use that same road as a coal truck route from a new mine has some residents worried, particularly because of the tiny Head Start school that [...]