The Bush administration is challenging a coal mine proposed in British Columbia, saying it poses an environmental threat that could extend south of the border.
The mine that Cline Mining Co. proposed just north of Glacier National Park could cause “significant adverse environmental effects” the United States, the U.S. State Department said in a letter to [...]

Irked by the hike in export duties, China’s second largest iron ore importer Sinosteel Corporation has halted imports from India.
The company made the announcement a week after India imposed a levy of Rs 300 ($7) per tonne of iron ore exported from March 1.
Management of the company were unavailable for comments.
India’s move to hike duties [...]

Allowing oil and gas drilling off Florida’s coast could be a matter of life or death for residents of Lafourche Parish if the federal government doesn’t take steps to improve the highway leading to Port Fourchon, residents told the federal Minerals Management Service on Wednesday night.
The planning meeting held in Larose was designed to gather [...]

Medoro Resources announced Friday initial diamond drilling results from its Lo Increible gold properties in Venezuela where it confirmed the historical data in La Cruz where two sub-parallel shear-hosted mineralized bodies have been better defined.
The Lo Increible properties are located in the El Callao mining district, a major gold production district in the Guyana Shield.
In [...]

Duffy and McGovern is continuing its rapid growth in the Caspian region after signing a new deal with Halliburton’s Sperry Drilling Systems division, in Kazakhstan.
Duffy and McGovern Accommodation Services, which was acquired by HB Rentals in January, won the deal due to its ability to mobilize units immediately for Sperry Drilling Systems.
A pair of A60 [...]

DENVER - Deb Meader said she never considered the potential health impacts when gas drilling rigs started springing up around Parachute.
Over the past 10 years, she said, she has suffered weakness, nauseous and burning eyes, and her granddaughter was born with congenital defects.
Two of her friends with a well in their back yard died of [...]

GREEN RIVER - An exploratory drilling project proposed in north Sublette County is drawing opposition from conservationists and others who say oil and gas development doesn’t belong within the Bridger-Teton National Forest’s Wyoming Range.
“If they drill these wells, it’ll be the beginning of the end for the Wyoming Range,” said Dan Smitherman, an outfitter with [...]

GREEN RIVER - A small exploratory drilling project proposed for the Wyoming Range in north Sublette County is spotlighting the conflict between energy development and preservation in western Wyoming.
Conservationists and others are objecting to the drilling project and say oil and gas development doesn’t belong within the Bridger-Teton National Forest’s Wyoming Range. They view [...]

The wife of a Kentucky coal miner killed in an accident last year says she has been receiving threatening phone calls since speaking out for mine safety.
Melissa Lee, whose husband Jimmy died in a methane gas explosion in a Harlan County mine, says unidentified callers have told her she needs to shut up and [...]

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa - From the top of a new coal-fired power plant with its 550-foot exhaust stack poking up from the flat western Iowa landscape, MidAmerican Energy Holdings chief executive David L. Sokol peered down at a train looping around a sizable mound of coal.
At this bend in the Missouri River, with Omaha visible [...]