International companies have been asked to bid for a tender to extract coal in parts of Kitui and Mwingi districts.
The Ministry of Energy asked interested firms to bid for the last phase of the exploration in the Mui basin as part of efforts to determine the commercial viability of the reserves. This comes in the [...]

Thanks to the high prices of oil and natural gas, the electricity industry is turning back to coal, America’s oldest and most abundant fossil fuel, to drive a new generation of power plants. The upshot is that even as politicians take the threat of global warming more seriously, the problem may get much worse.
Utilities are [...]

The president of Shell Oil, in Miami for a speech, says it’s time to embrace new energy sources.
In the wake of last year’s hurricanes, the United States narrowly averted a major disruption to its fuel supply on a scale “inconceivable in recent memory,” says Shell Oil Co. president John Hofmeister.
A year later, Hofmeister says he [...]

Just as the U.S. House of Representatives prepared to end a quarter-century federal moratorium on offshore drilling for oil and natural gas, environmentalists and Gov. Mark Sanford expressed their concerns about how such a move would affect South Carolina’s coastline and the state’s $10 billion tourism industry.
They were joined by energy experts, economists and trade [...]

THE government is expected to give its approval to the country’s first ever coal policy very soon. The final draft of the coal policy will be placed before the Cabinet shortly. Once endorsed, the coal policy will give certain basic rights to the government to lease out the existing coal mines of the country, including [...]