Environmental groups warn of new pollution if state permits coal-burning plant in Early County
To make their point, they stood along River Street with a large inflatable coal power plant with smokestacks bearing labels such as “acid rain” and “mercury poisoning.”
A few tourists gathered nearby as representatives from three Georgia-based environmental groups called on Gov. Sonny [...]

Australian coal miner Gloucester Coal Ltd. on Tuesday recommended shareholders accept a A$391 million ($320 million) offer from a subsidiary of Anglo-Swiss miner Xstrata Plc .
Gloucester Coal said the Xstrata Coal offer of A$4.75 a share was at a 33 percent premium to the one-month volume weighted average price of Gloucester Coal shares, and 27 [...]

Xstrata Plc, the world’s biggest exporter of power-station coal, agreed to buy Gloucester Coal Ltd. for A$391 million ($319 million) to extend the life of mining operations in Australia’s New South Wales state.
The cash offer of A$4.75 a share, which is 25 percent higher than Gloucester’s latest close, is unanimously recommended by Gloucester’s board, the [...]

China’s coal exports in March were down 36% on year at 3.71 million metric tons, according to preliminary data released by the General Administration of Customs Tuesday.
Its coal exports for the January-to-March period fell 31.9% on year to 11.41 million tons.
The bureau didn’t provide data for coal imports.

A coal mine has reopened in Jefferson County after being shut down for five months to undergo renovations and its new owners expect to produce 200,000 tons a year.
Headwaters Inc., owner of Covol Engineered Fuels LC, has completed work at the Jim Walter Resources Mine No. 3 in Adger, located just outside of Bessemer. Headwaters [...]

Nickel hit a new all-time intraday high for the second day in a row, reaching the psychologically significant 50,000 usd level, as inventories slid by a further 312 tonnes to 6 pct to 5,124 tonnes.
Prices have since eased to trade slightly lower, although they remain elevated, analysts said.
“The market has had this level in its [...]

Louisville-area gasoline prices were about a nickel per gallon lower yesterday as oil prices held above $64 per barrel despite news of Iran’s release of 15 British sailors.
The U.S. government reported yesterday that the nation’s gasoline inventories declined for the eighth week in a row and that demand is still strong. That helped push wholesale [...]

The United States government and the state of Illinois today reached a Clean Air Act (CAA) settlement with oil producers Rex Energy Operating Corp. and PennTex Resources Illinois, Inc. which will result in reduced emissions from the companies’ facilities in Illinois. The settlement is the result of an exposure investigation which was initiated in response [...]

Recent additions to the Wyoming Environmental Quality Council have all come from the oil and gas industry, which could hinder the council on matters regarding water discharge — a key element of the state’s energy industry.
When terms for three of the seven-member council expired at the end of January, Freudenthal appointed Craig Newman, David [...]

Torque Energy Inc. has filed with Canadian securities authorities its audited financial statements and related Management’s Discussion and Analysis and the reports relating to reserves data and other oil and gas information as at November 30, 2006.
During the year ended November 2006, the Company:
- entered into a new credit facility in the amount of [...]