The Senate has passed a pair of big tax breaks meant to help lure a proposed new $2 billion uranium enrichment complex to a site near the Idaho National Laboratory outside Idaho Falls.
Lawmakers voted 27 to 7 on Monday to extend a sales tax exemption for production equipment that handles nuclear fuel. They also voted [...]
City council in Moncton, N.B., voted unanimously Monday night to call on the province to ban all uranium exploration and mining in New Brunswick.
The councillors are particularly worried about uranium exploration on the outskirts of the city.
The mining giant Vale Inco (formerly known as CVRD-Inco) is exploring for uranium south and west of Moncton.
A smaller [...]
The Senate has passed a pair of big tax breaks meant to help lure a proposed new $2 billion uranium enrichment complex to a site near the Idaho National Laboratory outside Idaho Falls.
Lawmakers voted 27 to 7 on Monday to extend a sales tax exemption for production equipment that handles nuclear fuel. They also voted [...]
U.S. Energy Corp., a diversified natural resource company with interests in molybdenum, oil and gas, gold, and real estate, today provided a review of 2007 results and an update on current operations for its primary business segments.
Review of 2007 Accomplishments
The year ended December 31, 2007 was the most profitable in U.S. Energy Corp.’s history, due [...]
Once again, local oil and natural gas producers are left wondering as details of a decision on drilling regulations remain cloudy.
New Mexico’s three-member Oil Conservation Commission discussed the merits of more stringent drilling regulations in Santa Fe from Saturday through Friday. They worked their way through the 17-page rule that applies to the proposal, but [...]
The program, which will be held in Dubai from 10 to 15 May 2008, is the first time it will be offered in the region.
The program uses current oil and gas industry examples to examine how management strategies and styles have changed as companies and workforces become more global and diverse.
With dramatic changes currently occurring [...]
Takeover target Challenger Infrastructure Fund (CIF) will book a profit of about $26 million from the sale of its interest in Britain’s Northern Gas Networks Ltd (NGN) to RREEF Alternative Investments.
RREEF Alternative Investments, the global alternative investment management business of Deutsche Bank, bought CIF’s 5.8 per cent stake in NGN for STG 48.8 million ($A105.1 [...]
With the rising price of oil, bicycle manufacturers are jumping on the electric bicycle bandwagon, exhibiting e-bikes and an e-bike test track at the Taipei International Cycle Show in Taipei this week to promote the use of the battery-powered bikes.
The biggest bicycle show in Asia and third biggest in the world is also organizing [...]
Against a backdrop of rising iron ore prices, Brazilian steel producers should maintain high profit margins relative to their global peers during 2008, according to Fitch Ratings. Brazilian steel companies enjoy important competitive advantages, including modern production facilities, close proximity to sources of iron ore and a highly concentrated domestic market, which limits competition based [...]
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 [...]
