The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE) issued this statement in response to Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski’s state climate change agenda:
“ACCCE expresses deep concern with the governor’s decision to develop emissions standards for new energy production sources, ensuring they be ‘at least as clean as natural gas’. This action would preclude any new coal [...]
CONSOL Energy Inc., the nation’s largest producer of bituminous coal, and Synthesis Energy Systems Inc., a global industrial gasification company, intend to develop through a joint venture their first U.S. coal gasification and liquefaction plant to be located in West Virginia. CONSOL (through its subsidiary Terra Firma Company) and SES have formed Northern Appalachia Fuel [...]
An Adelaide-based company has struck a deal to provide clean coal technology to an energy consortium in the United States.
GTL Energy Limited has signed a memorandum of understanding for the technology to be used in an electricity plant in North Dakota.
It is expected that the technology will transform low-grade coal into a cleaner fuel, to [...]
Some 1,500 coal miners staged a mass rally on Thursday on the front lawn of the state Capitol to protest legislation that they fear could eliminate their jobs.
The rally came two days after lawmakers narrowly defeated a bill aimed at stopping mining companies from blasting off mountaintops to expose coal deposits.
Gov. Steve Beshear made a [...]
Coal mining companies say they will raise $A1 billion ($US824.75 million) for research into clean coal technology to combat climate change.
The Australian Coal Association today said the funding would be used for research, development and demonstration of such technology.
The money would be raised over 10 years through an industry levy, ACA executive director Mark O’Neill [...]
Under political pressure over climate change, the coal industry has vowed to raise at least $1 billion to develop technology to curb greenhouse gases.
The announcement increases by $700 million the funds producers have committed to clean coal technology.
Both the federal government and Labor have put much store in the technology as a way of reducing [...]
Energy industry executive Paul Prager and Natural Gas Partners (”NGP”), the leading investment franchise in the energy industry, today announced that they have entered into an agreement to acquire the domestic independent power production and power development business units of MDU Resources Group, Inc. in a transaction valued at $636 million. The business being [...]
“All I can see is the future of the oil and gas industry as we know it is good,” he said. “The biggest problem we have is finding oil and gas. I see a great future for energy and oil and gas will be there. We’re all going to live in the hydrocarbon era.”
But the [...]
President Bush’s proposed 2008 budget for the U.S. Department of Energy largely passes over “clean coal” projects in Wyoming and the West.
U.S. Sen. Craig Thomas, R-Wyo., grilled Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman last week for not following certain directives set forth in the Energy Policy Act of 2005.
Provisions such as a Western coal-gasification demonstration project are [...]
One of the nation’s largest power generators will delay construction of two clean coal plants in Ohio and West Virginia for at least six months after studies showed they will cost more than expected.
American Electric Power said the plants aren’t in jeopardy and are still expected to go online between 2010 and 2015.
AEP told Ohio [...]
