House Republicans on Tuesday postponed action on what was to be one of the last major legislative achievements of this session of Congress, a bill to open a large area of the eastern Gulf of Mexico to oil and gas drilling.
Republicans gave no reason for the decision not to vote on the Senate plan to [...]
Coal companies must replace by-the-book compliance with a culture of prevention if they want to eliminate the underground fires and explosions that are killing miners, says a panel of experts releasing recommendations for the industry.
The Mine Safety Technology and Training Commission has studied 25 years of fires and explosions to produce more than 70 recommendations [...]
The referendum on the observance of environmental limits for coal mining to guarantee the landscape protection in the Litvinov vicinity is invalid as only 38 percent of eligible voters took part in it on Friday while at lest 50-percent turnout is required by the law, the Litvinov website has informed.
The total of 95 percent of [...]
Pengrowth Corporation, administrator of Pengrowth Energy Trust is pleased to announce that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Canadian oil and natural gas producing properties and undeveloped lands (the “CP Properties”) through the acquisition of the shares of four subsidiaries of Burlington Resources Limited, a subsidiary of ConocoPhillips, for a purchase price [...]
Nuinsco Resources Limited announced that it has begun a uranium exploration program at its 100% owned Prairie Lake property in northwestern Ontario. Prairie Lake hosts a near-surface historic (non-NI-43-101-compliant) resource of over 180,000 tonnes grading 0.09% U3O8 reported by Nuinsco in the 1970s. Surface exploration has begun and samples have been collected in preparation for [...]
About 4,500 homes are without power due primarily to wind, according to Appalachian Power.
That 4,500 breaks down like this: 2,100 in the Woodlawn community along the Grayson and Carroll County border and 2,500 in the Roanoke area.
Crews hope to have power back up and running for those folks [...]
Some 300 people from more than a dozen countries have gathered here for the Indigenous World Uranium Summit, and Navajo officials hope to join forces with them to keep the sprawling reservation off-limits to future uranium mining.
President Joe Shirley Jr. said during his welcoming address Thursday that the job of protecting land, water and people [...]
A fight to get a share of federal oil revenue for Louisiana is coming down to the wire, and supporters are making the last-minute push to anyone who will listen.
Advocates made their appeal Thursday to a group of more than 20 of the country’s lieutenant governors.
Flying high above New Orleans, Delaware’s lieutenant governor saw the [...]
