Citizens for Pennsylvania’s Future (PennFuture) heralded Secretary of Environmental Protection Kathleen McGinty as a trailblazer for Pennsylvania’s environment and economy and a truly transformative leader. PennFuture’s comments came as McGinty announced her intention to leave office on July 18, 2008.
“Secretary McGinty has created a record of unparalleled achievement for the Keystone State’s environment and economy,” [...]

U.S. state attorneys general are meeting in Idaho for a conference aimed at addressing the location of power plants, efforts to restrict energy use, renewable energy mandates and other energy-related legal issues likely to arise in the coming years.
Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden told his counterparts from across the country that attorneys general are often [...]

A legislative committee has rejected a privately financed scientific study that environmentalists and some Southside Virginia residents feared would inevitably lead to ending the state’s 25-year moratorium on uranium mining.
The House Rules Committee voted 11-4 Monday to table Sen. Frank Wagner’s bill, which would have created a 17-member commission to oversee a study of whether [...]

Alcoa Inc. announced that it has reviewed Alcan’s continuity agreement with the Government of Quebec which identifies the requirements that Alcoa must meet regarding Alcan’s future operations in the Province in order to maintain certain of Alcan’s hydroelectric and water rights. In a letter to Alcan’s Board of Directors, Alcoa outlined the many ways in [...]

Century Mining Corporation announces that all five million warrants with an expiry date of March 7, 2007 have been exercised between February 19 and March 7, 2007 at an exercise price of $0.44 per share for proceeds to the Company of C$2.2 million.
The Company currently has 123,047,019 common shares issued and outstanding.
Margaret Kent, President & [...]

Westar Energy knew its coal-fired plant was in trouble.
The Kansas company wanted to build a $1 billion, 800-megawatt power plant, but construction costs kept rising as global demand for steel and other materials skyrocketed. Soon $1 billion became at least $1.4 billion — costs ultimately passed to consumers.
Faced with sobering numbers, the utility in January [...]

The head of the Indonesian unit of Newmont Mining Corp. told a court on Tuesday that authorities had never told the firm its mining activities might be breaking environmental or mining laws.
PT Newmont Minahasa Raya, which operated a gold mine in North Sulawesi province, and its president director Richard Ness face charges over allegations the [...]

State-controlled energy giants OAO Gazprom and OAO Rosneft will divide up Russia’s oil and gas-rich seabed evenly, the financial newspaper Vedomosti reported Monday, a step that would leave foreign oil companies with a minority role at most.
While the move has not been officially backed by President Vladimir Putin, the paper said, it would be in [...]

Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corp., a unit of the Royal/Dutch Shell group, has shelved plans to expand its 110,000-barrel per day refinery in the Philippines due to increased costs, its spokesman said on Monday.
Shell has decided to stop studying an expansion to its refinery in Tabangao, Batangas near Manila, said Bobby Kanapi, general manager for external [...]

Agrium Inc. announced today it expects to adjust the carrying cost of its Kapuskasing phosphate rock mine and associated Redwater phosphate facility resulting in a non-cash, after tax charge of approximately $100-million in the Corporation’s fourth quarter financial results.
Recent quality issues with the rock from our Kapuskasing phosphate mine resulted in a comprehensive drilling program [...]