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 [...]

John J. Komarnicki, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Alhambra Resources Ltd., on behalf of the board of directors is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Graham A. Karklin as a director of the Corporation effective May 05, 2008.
Mr. Karklin has 34 years of experience in the international mining industry including Central Asia, Australia, [...]

Whiting Petroleum Corporation announced the promotion of Chuck LaCouture to Vice President-Marketing of Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation, its wholly owned operating subsidiary, effective immediately. Mr. LaCouture joined Whiting in January 2002 as Manager-Marketing and Business Development. Previously, he was with Whiting’s former parent company, Alliant Energy, in a similar position beginning in February [...]

The coal industry is so hungry for workers that at least some coal companies are snatching up coal mining engineering students before they make it through four years of college.
“Our mining engineering technology only has about 10 students in the entire program right now,” Roger Owensby said. “Some students start out in the program, but [...]

The Federal Trade Commission plans to come up with rules by the end of the year to enforce a new law against price manipulation and deception in oil-trading markets.
The FTC announced that has taken the first step, seeking public comments, toward developing a regulation on oil industry price manipulation.
As part of a broad energy bill [...]