Ontario Power Generation’s 490-megawatt Unit 5 at the Nanticoke coal-fired power station in Ontario shut by early Friday, the Independent Electricity System Operator said in a report.
The 3,920 MW Nanticoke station, which entered service between 1972 and 1978, is located on the north shore of Lake Erie in the town of Nanticoke, about 80 miles [...]

Harry Anthony looked the people of Goliad County straight in their eyes and basically said, “Trust me.”
Anthony, chief operations officer of Uranium Energy Corporation, addressed about 75 people attending the afternoon session of Wednesday’s uranium educational conference in Goliad.
The two-day educational conference was organized by Uranium Information at Goliad, a citizens committee concerned with the [...]

ZIMBABWE’S mining sector remains very lucrative although proposed changes in mining laws have dampened enthusiasm for foreign investment, Chamber of Mines chief executive Mr David Murangari said this week.
Interest from external investors had also fallen sharply over the past five years although no statistics were immediately available. This, aided by the politics of economics, has [...]

Arch Coal Inc. said Thursday that it will repurchase up to 14 million shares of its common stock, effective immediately.
The buyback would be worth more than $370 million based on Wednesday’s closing price of $26.45 a share. The repurchase plan represents about 9.8 percent of Arch Coal’s shares; the company had 143,544,602 common shares outstanding [...]

Texans may consume more electricity than other Americans, but they’re suddenly debating the wisdom of doubling the number of coal-fired power plants in the state — plants critics say will worsen air quality and increase health risks.
The threat of more smog-forming emissions from 12,000 new megawatts of coal-fired generation on the books for Texas has [...]

The huge tires that keep the global mining industry rolling are in short supply, causing operators of the Centralia coal mine to rethink the way they do business at the sprawling, 10,000-acre mine that hugs the Thurston-Lewis county line.
As the demand for raw materials such as coal and metals grows to feed the thirsty, growing [...]

The last U.S. uranium mill ever built, in this parched landscape near Lake Powell, shut down almost as quickly as itstarted operating as nuclear power fell into disfavor about two decades ago.
Keith Larsen, chief executive for U.S. Energy Corp., picked up the mill 10 years later for practically nothing, banking it for better days. His [...]

Wyoming and West Virginia are the only two states that can meet the nation’s increasing hunger for coal, the chairman of one of the nation’s largest coal companies said Friday.
Steve Leer, chairman of Arch Coal, spoke to reporters along with Wyoming Gov. Dave Freudenthal and West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin in Gillette before the governors [...]

US firm General Electric wants to build a gasified coal power station somewhere in Poland a report citing the company’s chairman in Washington said.
The Polish daily Rzeczpospolita said John Krenicki announced the project for a 900 megawatt plant on Friday as Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski visited the United States.
The power station would cost an [...]

Florida Power & Light Co., the principal subsidiary of FPL Group Inc., on Tuesday said it plans to build a coal power plant in Florida’s Glades County at a cost of between $2 billion and $3 billion.
The plant would help meet Florida’s growing demand for electricity by providing power for more than 650,000 homes, the [...]