Ogala Sioux got a lift from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission who ruled in late April that the tribe had legitimate concerns about groundwater contamination from a uranium mine, reports Indian Country Today. The mine owners, Cameco Corp. of Canada wants to expand the mine. The tribe believes that fractures in rock allow water used [...]

The price of crude oil struck a record high 126.40 dollars a barrel on Monday amid tensions in the Middle East and ongoing supply fears in Nigeria, traders said.
New York crude beat its all-time peak of 126.27 dollars, reached last Friday.
Later Monday, New York’s main oil futures contract, light sweet crude for June delivery, stood [...]

Indonesia’s PT Timah Tbk , the world’s largest integrated tin miner, plans to acquire three coal mines with total reserves of 50 million tonnes, a senior company official said on Monday.
Timah has a mine in South Kalimantan which produces up to 1.4 million tonnes of coal a year, but the firm has been looking for [...]

State-run NTPC Ltd , India’s top power producer, is looking to buy majority stakes in Indonesian coal mines with reserves of up to 300 million tonnes to secure supplies and manage costs, its chairman said on Monday.
Another government company, Power Trading Corp , also announced plans to buy coal mines in Indonesia, following the footsteps [...]

Indonesia has denied that it will set a quota for coal exports as it wants to reserve the coal for future use.
The reports had prompted rising interest in the country’s natural resources from energy-hungry China and India.
The reports were baseless and the new mining law likely to be passed by Parliament by June would in [...]

A uranium shortage has India’s nuclear plants running below capacity.
The government admitted the shortage along with declining profits only last week, the Times of India reported.
“Currently, there is a mismatch in the demand and supply of indigenous uranium. As a result, this capacity is being operated at lower power level, matching fuel supply,” a government [...]

Then U.S. Energy Department awarded $61.1 million to a multistate environmental partnership to research new ways to capture and store carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
The Midwest Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership project, working with Columbus, Ohio-based Battelle Memorial Laboratories, will test ways to store the gases in underground geological formations, and in land occupied by [...]

Democratic presidential hopefuls Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton focused much of their campaigning in Indiana and North Carolina on a debate over whether the government should waive an 18.4-cents per gallon gasoline tax. Voters in the two states cast their ballots in primaries Tuesday.
Clinton supports a plan to suspend the tax for the summer [...]

Legend International Holdings, Inc, with phosphate projects in the State of Queensland, Australia, announces that it has entered into a long term offtake and supply agreement for a minimum of 3 million tonnes annually of concentrated rock phosphate from its Lady Annie project in Queensland, Australia, with Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative Limited (“IFFCO”). Legend and [...]

European oil groups Royal Dutch Shell and Repsol YPF are under pressure from the United States to end talks with Iran about a multi-billion dollar natural gas deal, the Expansion newspaper reported Saturday.
It said that Russia’s Gazprom, Indian Oil Corporation and Chinese groups could be waiting to move in if British-Dutch group Shell and Spain’s [...]