A revival of the coal industry in Wales was put forward as a possibility by Peter Hain today.
The Secretary of State for Wales said: “Fossil fuels are going to provide us with the bulk of our energy for the foreseeable future, coal included, so if we are going to tackle the urgent problem of climate [...]
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 [...]
PetroSun, Incorporated is pleased to announce that its wholly owned subsidiary, PetroSun BioFuels Australasia, has entered into a Letter of Intent with Icon Drilling of Brisbane, Australia. The purpose of the transaction is to create a publicly traded alternative fuel company in Australia. Icon Drilling is a wholly owned subsidiary of Icon Energy that is [...]
PetroSun, Incorporated is pleased to announce that its wholly owned subsidiary, PetroSun BioFuels Australasia, has entered into a Letter of Intent with Icon Drilling of Brisbane, Australia. The purpose of the transaction is to create a publicly traded alternative fuel company in Australia. Icon Drilling is a wholly owned subsidiary of Icon Energy that [...]
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 [...]
Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) is pleased to announce the release of the new North American Coal-Fired Power Plant Industry Wall Map. The map displays demographics on over 600 operating coal-fired power plants in North America. In addition to identifying utility scale power plants, the map also lists industrial power producing power plants at synthetic [...]
Seventy percent of China’s energy comes from coal, the dirtiest of all fuels to produce energy. Coal is literally powering China’s seemingly unstoppable rise to superpower status, but not without costs to people and the environment.
Coal miner Wu Gui, who has been working the mines for 34 years, describes his role in China’s economy [...]
Environmentalists who sued Duke Energy Corp. over upgrades at its coal-fired plants say a proposed EPA rule undermines their U.S. Supreme Court victory and would give utilities a free hand to pollute.
At issue is how the government measures air pollution from the smokestacks of coal-fired power plants and other sources.
Environmentalists say the pollution should be [...]
Speculations are rife that an impending power supply crisis is stage-managed to justify the jacking up of expenses in the acquisition of coal supply, enabling the government to come up with additional funds for its candidates’ campaign kitty.
Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel Jr.’s latest allegation came in the light of reports on expected series of [...]
British Gas lowered its residential electricity and gas prices on Thursday in the latest salvo of a price war.
British Gas parent, utility Centrica, said the business was cutting electricity prices by 6 percent and gas prices by 3 percent. Coupled with cuts earlier this year this would reduce the average annual dual fuel bill by [...]
