Kalimantan Gold Corporation Limited has signed an Option Agreement with PT Indobara Pratama to bring the coal deposit on IBP’s 100%-owned coal KP into production and acquire up to an 80% interest in IBP. The project is permitted for production and the potential to be an open cut coal deposit. The work done on [...]
A new proposal to drill for coal-bed methane north of Glacier National Park has Montana officials looking for a permanent solution to energy development issues in southeastern British Columbia.
“We’re tired of fighting this project after project after project,” said Rich Moy, water management chief with Montana’s Department of Natural Resources and Conservation. “What we need [...]
BP Plc and Rio Tinto Plc formed a joint venture, Hydrogen Energy, to develop technology for producing power from coal, oil and natural gas without emitting the gases blamed for global warming.
Rio will pay $32 million to BP to form the equally owned venture, which includes two planned BP hydrogen-fuel projects in Scotland and California [...]
As uncertainty clouds the mining of county’’s abundant wealth of coal, government has missed a deadline for doubling the current volume of power by generating an additional 4,000 megawatts of electricity under a master plan, reports UNB.
Eight new power plants, having a total 4,000MW capacity, were planned for setting up by 2005 as per the [...]
A group of influential Alaskans has formed a nonprofit group to counter what they called misinformation being disseminated in television and newspaper advertisements by groups opposing Pebble, a possible mine on the Alaska Peninsula southwest of Anchorage.
The move is sure to ramp up the public relations war between those opposing and those supporting the mine.
The [...]
The Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) hereby invites prospective Investors to express interest in acquiring any of the Coal Blocks, which were hitherto held by the Nigerian Coal Corporation (NCC), Enugu.
The Nigerian Coal Corporation (NCC) was established in 1950 under the Coal Ordinance No. 20. It had the exclusive rights to mine coal in Nigeria [...]
After meeting in closed session for almost two hours, Fayette County officials reported that negotiations on the sale of the county’s coal bed methane rights are continuing.
That announcement came about two hours after a local organization that represents a large number of Fayette County farmers asked the board to take its time and consider all [...]
Another major coal seam gas project is being developed in Queensland.
Origin Energy is to invest $114 million to double the size of its Spring Gully coal seam gas project north of Roma.
This will largely supply into the household, industry and electricity generation market.
But nearby Link Energy is developing coal seam gas which, in partnership with [...]
StockInterview.com announced its top ten most popular news stories for the first half of 2006. Eight of the top ten most popular news stories were interviews with leading experts in the uranium mining sector or coverage on the renaissance in uranium mining during 2006. The top three stories were interviews conducted with Eric Sprott, Chairman [...]
Mining group Altona Resources PLC said it has signed a memorandum of understanding with BP Australia Pty Ltd to jointly evaluate development opportunities for Altona’s Arckaringa coal project in South Australia.
