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 [...]

With prices for key commodities at record highs, Indonesia — Southeast Asia’s biggest economy and a key exporter — should, at first glance, be enjoying good times.
But with high oil prices leading to a government fuel subsidy blowout and rising food prices hitting the poor, analysts say most Indonesians are being squeezed.
Indonesia is the world’s [...]

South African Reserve Bank governor Tito Mboweni said the price of oil is unlikely to drop any time soon, hampering efforts to contain inflation and adding to pressure for higher interest rates.
“On the inflation picture, what is of serious concern is that it doesn’t seem like oil prices are going to be of assistance to [...]

India’s Era Engineering Innovations (EII) has committed an investment of US$5 million into coal-powered energy generation in Zambia following the just-ended Conclave on Indo-Africa Project Partnership in New Delhi.
Commerce, Trade and Industry Minister, Felix Mutati, who led the Zambian delegation to the meeting signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with EII director, Ajay Mishra over [...]

Despite a swarm of economic problems and rising fossil fuel costs, last year was a banner year for clean energy, according to an outlook report by Clean Edge, a research and publishing firm.
According to Clean Edge’s report, biofuels (global production and wholesale pricing of ethanol and biodiesel) reached $25.4 billion in 2007 and are projected [...]

Anglo American said Tuesday three of its coal mines open coal supply to electricity utility Eskom has closed because of rain.
“They are all closed. They are not in operation at present, “spokesman Pranill Anglo Ramchander said.
Ramchander said he was unsure when Denmark and New Kriel collieries in the province of Mpumalanga and New Vaal in [...]

India’s Larsen & Toubro Ltd (L&T) said it has won a 28 mln eur order from a unit of China-based Zhongyuan Coal Chemical Industry Group, for the supply of a coal gasifier and cooler assembly.
In a regulatory filing, the country’s largest engineering and construction group said the order was won by its heavy engineering division [...]

Construction major Larsen & Toubro Ltd. (L & T) has bagged a contract worth 28 million euros ($ 44.13 million or Rs.1.70 billion) from China, the world’s largest and heaviest coal gasifier plant.
The Hebi Coal and Electricity Ltd., a subsidiary of Zhong Yuan Coal Chemical Industry Group’s mission.
Information of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), an [...]

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 [...]

Gold mining output in South Africa fell 16.5 percent in January from the same period last year because of power cuts, the national statistics agency said Thursday.
“Gold production decreased by 16.5 percent for the month of January 2008 compared with January 2007,” Statistics South Africa said in a statement.
And overall, “the reported electricity supply shortages [...]