Plans to build an ethanol plant near Erskine have suffered another setback, with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency set to recommend that the project, proposed by Agassiz Energy LLC, complete a detailed Environmental Impact Statement before proceeding further. The recommendation comes as a result of the project’s 70-page Environmental Assessment Worksheet and its review process, [...]
A proposed coal-fired power plant for the east side of Waterloo continues to move forward.
Thursday LS Power submitted a draft air quality permit with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.
What that means is an engineer with the DNR will look over the application and make sure LS Power is on the right track. If [...]
Dynamite Resources Ltd. (TSXV:DNR) says it will acquire Tau Mining Ltd. (UK), owner of two uranium licences in Kyrgyzstan, for $36.6 million in shares and warrants.
The junior gold miner said Friday it will exchange each Tau Mining share for either a quarter of a Dynamite common share and a purchase warrant to buy another share [...]
Indiana State officials say Southwest Indiana is experiencing a boom in oil and gas exploration, with a peak number of wells drilled over the past 15 years.
The Indiana Department of Natural Resources Division of Oil and Gas released a report earlier this week that says oil and gas wells are being drilled in Indiana “At [...]
INDIANAPOLIS - The plan to give the public input before the state allows strip-mining on wildlife areas or state parks sailed through the Indiana House on Wednesday.
House Bill 1322 passed 95-0, though Republican legislators posed several questions about it to the bill’s author, state Rep. Dave Crooks, D-Washington.
Crooks said the bill was inspired by the [...]
The new, cleaner coal technology “integrated gasification combined-cycle” - better known as coal gasification - holds promise as part of Wisconsin’s next generation of baseload power plants, a state report concludes.
The Department of Natural Resources and the Public Service Commission have been studying coal gasification, which is being pushed by environmentalists but has elicited a [...]
Village President Ken Fuller this week presented the head of the Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) a petition urging the department to declare an area near Banner unsuitable for coal mining. Reports of geological studies, archeological findings, and other documents also were presented.
Fuller drove Tuesday to Springfield and delivered hundreds of pages of documents [...]
Mining the Beluga coal fields across Cook Inlet from the Kenai Peninsula may put a spark in the Southcentral Alaska economy, but conservationists say it also will endanger rich salmon spawning streams and add significant pollution to the local atmosphere.
PacRim Coal LP, the company developing the Chuitna Coal Project located within the Beluga deposit, is [...]
Despite the discovery of “a viable coal reserve†at Glendale Fish and Wildlife Area in southern Indiana, it’s not going anywhere.
Department of Natural Resources director Rob Carter announced Thursday that strip mining of the coal will not be allowed because it lacked public support.
The DNR granted Black Beauty Coal Company permission to conduct exploratory drilling [...]
Mining coal in a prospective area north of Canton and east of Brereton may create 40 good-paying jobs and spin off up to 200 more jobs in support of the operation. To move the proposal forward, environmental issues must be addressed and satisfied.
One issue of concern is the watershed for Canton Lake. Most of the [...]
