Environmentalists had hoped that if a new coal-fired power plant like the one proposed near Waterloo had to be built in Iowa it would at least be required to get some of its energy from renewable sources.
But an Iowa House committee has scrapped the idea after concerns about the cost to the industry.
A measure killed [...]
Their thick, ancient forests shelter leopards, elephants and even the odd tiger, their slopes are home to an isolated tribe, but the “curse” of eastern India’s Niyamgiri hills lies beneath the soil.
Massive deposits of bauxite have brought Britain’s Vedanta Resources to this remote corner of the state of Orissa, where they have already built [...]
WASHINGTON - More than a year after the Sago mine explosion that killed 12 miners, protections for miners who get trapped underground have not yet been implemented, the United Mine Workers president said Wednesday.
UMW President Cecil Roberts testified during a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing in which senators questioned Richard Stickler, head of the nation’s mine [...]
The Timken Company and Rio Tinto Energy America, a business unit of one of the world’s leading mining and exploration companies, have worked together to help achieve longer equipment life while reducing downtime and maintenance costs at the Cordero Rojo Mine near Gillette, Wyo. The improved performance is a result of Timken’s Bearing Maintenance Training [...]
The FTSE 100 index edged lower by mid-session on Friday after hitting a new six-year closing high in the previous session, as mining and oil stocks were weighed down by weaker commodity prices.
Oil stocks led the FTSE 100 losing sector with crude prices easing below $58 a barrel as some investors focussed on forecasts [...]
The Zambian government proposed Friday to raise a tax on mining companies, aimed at helping the copper-rich but impoverished nation cash in on high global copper prices.
The proposed tax increase is part of the government’s austere US$3 billion (euro2.3 billion) 2007 budget, released Friday?
Finance Minister Ng’andu Magande said the government planned to negotiate with the [...]
Asserting the state improperly turned a contract dispute into a fraud action, Exxon Mobil Corporation urged the Alabama Supreme Court to overturn a $3.5 billion punitive damages award. The award resulted from a lawsuit regarding payment of Mobile Bay Project royalties to the state.
“This entire case stems from a contract dispute over a poorly drafted [...]
TO ensure that more Ugandans benefit from oil, Mbarara University of Science and Technology plans to introduce a course in petroleum chemistry.
“The course is being introduced as an option but will, in due course, become a fully-fledged programme through which petroleum experts can be bred,” the vice-chancellor, Prof. Frederick Kayanja, said.
He was speaking during the [...]
Chinese President Hu Jintao on Saturday offered copper-rich Zambia a multimillion dollar investment package aimed at boosting ties with a longtime African ally.
Facing mounting accusations of Chinese exploitation of African labor and resources — an issue during last year’s Zambian presidential elections — Hu stressed that Beijing was motivated by partnership rather than purely profit.
“China [...]
ExxonMobil Foundation announced today a grant of $1 million to USAID to support the efforts of the Ministry of Health in Angola to strengthen and extend malaria prevention and control in that country. The grant was presented at a ceremony in Luanda, Angola, January 30.
James R. Riley, ExxonMobil’s Manager of Government Relations and Public Affairs [...]
