Aggrieved workers of the Nigerian Coal Corporation (NCC) Enugu who were retrenched last year, have protested the non-payment of their severance package.
In a protest letter made available to newsmen, the workers asked the Minister of Solid Minerals Develo-pment, Leslie Obiora to intervene and order the payment of their entitlements being withheld by the management of [...]

The Department of Energy will hold meetings near the four towns competing to host the FutureGen power plant to hear public comment on the coal and carbon dioxide research facility.
Two of the proposed sites are in Texas: Jewett and Odessa. The department will hold the meeting about the Jewett site in nearby Fairfield on [...]

A gas leak in a coal mine in northern China has killed at least 18 miners.
The disaster at the Dahuiyao Coal Mine in Shanxi Province began Friday with a collapse, Xinhua, the official government news agency, reported. That left a closed part of the mine open and set off a fire that released lethal gases.
There [...]

Republicans are trying to boost their bid to cut estate taxes with a last-minute legislative add-on that would pay for abandoned coal mine cleanup projects and health care for retired miners.
A coalition of labor, environmentalists and mining companies is behind the drive to renew the mine reclamation program, which uses fees on mined coal to [...]

Six years after Arch Coal Inc. closed its last mine in Illinois, the company bought a minority stake in a small local producer to tap the growing demand for high-sulfur Midwest coal.
Arch on Wednesday said it got a one-third interest in Knight Hawk Coal of Percy, Ill., in exchange for $15 million and 30 million [...]

Indian utility Tata Power Co. Ltd. is in talks to buy coal mines in Australia, Indonesia and South Africa to tie up fuel supplies for its proposed 15,000-megawatt capacity expansion, a top official said.
The company, which supplies power to the financial hub of Mumbai, India’s capital New Delhi and to smaller cities, is pursuing projects [...]

Western Canadian Coal on Monday announced the start-up of its $180-million Wolverine mine in northeastern B.C. and the signing of a long-term port agreement with Ridley Terminals Inc. in Prince Rupert.
“Start-up is proceeding well and the plant is processing hard coking coal,” said Western Coal CEO John Hogg. “Our operations staff and contractors have done [...]

Shen Hua Group Corporation Limited plans to put three liquefied coal projects into production in 2011 and 2012 with a capacity of producing 10 million tons of petroleum a year.
The three projects, in Yulin city of West China’s Shaanxi Province and two in Yinchuan, capital of northwestern Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, will each be able [...]

Coal is in the running to overtake oil as the best-performing energy investment.
That, at least, is the emerging consensus from a range of speculators, investors and giant corporations including Wilbur Ross, the billionaire bankruptcy specialist; BHP Billiton, the world’s largest mining company; and Merrill Lynch, the U.S. securities firm.
Because “coal is the cheapest, most abundant [...]

Arctic Slope Regional Corporation has granted a global resources company exclusive rights to explore and possibly develop the Native corporation’s coal fields. BHP Billiton is set to begin exploration this year for Barrow-based ASRC.
Billiton also will continue ASRC’s environmental studies and set up a process for consulting with local communities. ASRC has long known [...]