Energy provider Southern Co. said Monday construction has begun on what it called an efficient, low-emission coal facility which will help the company meet increased power demand.
The facility, at the Stanton Energy Center in Orange County, Fla., will turn coal into synthetic gas for generating electricity, while reducing emissions of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides [...]

Russia-based Rusal, which already owns a 20 per cent stake in Gladstone’s Queensland Alumina (QAL), is actively investigating establishing a refinery and smelter in the state as part of its stated expansion plans.
It comes as Russian companies actively increase their presence in Australia, Russian steel giant Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works notifying the Federal Government [...]

TSX has determined to defer its decision to delist Jaguar Nickel Inc.’s common shares (Symbol: JNI). TSX expects to render its decision whether to lift the continued listing review or delist the Company’s common shares no later than Friday April 4, 2008. Until such time, the Company’s common shares, which were being reviewed on an [...]

Listed miner Uranium One has identified uranium enrichment as an attractive business opportunity.
Uranium enrichment is a critical step in transforming natural uranium into nuclear fuel for use in electricity production.
Starting life as Aflease Gold, Uranium One, which has a primary listing on the Toronto Stock Exchange and a secondary listing on the JSE, was [...]

A senior coal company executive on Wednesday lambasted U.S. lawmakers for proposing caps on emissions blamed for global warming, saying the Democrats were out to destroy America’s coal industry.
Robert Murray, chairman, president and chief executive of Murray Energy Corp., also blasted the federal government’s mine safety agency for “outrageous” new fines that he warned could [...]

Venezuela moved closer to nationalizing its oil-rich Orinoco River basin, after four foreign oil companies signed deals giving Venezuela the lion’s share of the profits and two US companies pulled out altogether.
“ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips are ending their participation in the exploration ventures,” Oil and Energy Minister Rafael Ramirez said Tuesday at the signing ceremony with [...]

Synthesis Energy Systems Investments, Inc., a subsidiary of Synthesis Energy Systems, Inc. (”SES” or the “Company”) (OTC: SYMX), a coal gasification company involved in the conversion of low cost fuels into clean energy and chemical products, and Inner Mongolia Golden Concord (Xilinhot) Energy Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Golden Concord Holdings Ltd. (”Golden Concord”), a [...]

State regulators on Tuesday signed off on plans to build one of the nation’s first plants that would turn dirty coal into cleaner fuel, generating electricity while dramatically reducing smog and mercury pollution.
If built amid cornfields outside Taylorville, about 200 miles southwest of Chicago, the 630-megawatt plant would provide a lucrative boost to the state’s [...]

The U.S. Department of Energy said a prototype coal dryer project at an Underwood, N.D., power plant is so successful it’s being expanded.
Department officials said the technology at the Great River Energy Co.’s Coal Creek Station has proven so successful the power company intends not only to install full-size dryers on the station’s Unit [...]

Peabody Energy Corp. has pledged nearly one million tons of coal a year and up to $10 million in development funds to an Illinois plant planners say would become the nation’s first to commercially turn coal into liquid fuels for tomorrow’s big-rig trucks, buses, barges or jets.
St. Louis-based Peabody, as part of the deal announced [...]