HWANGE Colliery Company Ltd (HCCL) has doubled daily coal production at its opencast and underground mines, and is now looking at renewing exports since the arrival of new mining equipment in the last quarter.
Coal output at the opencast mine has risen by 100 percent to 10 000 tonnes per day while that from the underground [...]
Federal Opposition energy spokesman Martin Ferguson says Australia should treat the export of uranium as it would any other resource.
Mr Ferguson is leading the push for Labor to dump its “no new uranium mines” policy at the party’s national conference next year.
He has told Channel 10 that Australia is in the middle of a major [...]
An ongoing strike in the French Overseas Territory of New Caledonia, primarily over the employment of Filipino workers on the construction of Inco’s Goro Nickel operation, has been seriously impacting that country’s nickel exports. The strike has been going on for three weeks now and has forced the country’s principal nickel producer, Eramet, to suspend [...]
Melbourne, Oct 18: Australia is believed to be negotiating uranium sale to Russia, a lawmaker has claimed, while warning that the country has an “appalling” nuclear saftey record.
Greens Senator Christine Milne said the government was holding meetings this week with Russian officials about the sale. “What is clearly happening is that whilst the prime minister [...]
An Australian mining firm is planning to open a uranium mine in Zambia’s Southern province, Zambia News and Information Services reported Wednesday.
The Australian mining company has expressed interest in opening up a uranium mine in Siavonga with an investment of 60 million U.S. dollars.
Omega Corporation limited managing director Mattew Yates said uranium deposits have [...]
Democratic gubernatorial nominee David Hahn on Wednesday presented a plan to create a renewable energy industry in the state.
Heading his list of “alternative, sustainable, renewable†energy sources in Nebraska was wind power.
“Wind offers a great opportunity†for generation of electricity,†Hahn told a news conference at the State Capitol.
“Wind power could actually become an energy [...]
Increasing ethanol production appears to be making a dent in the USDA’s corn carryover estimate for the 2006-07 marketing year, the head of the Nebraska Corn Board says.
The U.S. Agriculture Department said last week that corn production is forecast at 10.9 billion bushels. That’s down 209 million bushels from last year’s harvest.
Don Hutchens, Nebraska Corn [...]
Hundreds of Bari Indians, most clad in loincloths and carrying bows and arrows, came down from the hills in their first march ever Thursday to demand that the state-owned oil company stop drilling on sacred land abutting their reservation.
The 700 protesters rallied in one of Colombia’s most war-ravaged regions on Columbus Day — commemorated as [...]
Dan Fessler, principal of Clear Energy Solutions LLC, says he is the worst of all possible people to suggest what Wyoming should do with its coal industry. He’s a lawyer.
But Fessler is also the son of a Torrington newspaper publisher, and a man who had a lengthy career in international energy law and was president [...]
Suedzucker AG, the world’s biggest sugar processor, said second-quarter profit advanced 1.9 percent, the first gain in more than a year, as the costs of expanding into ethanol production fell.
Net income rose to 63.4 million euros ($79.4 million) in the three months ended Aug. 31, from 62.2 million euros a year earlier, Mannheim, Germany-based Suedzucker [...]
