Spectra Energy Partners, LP, in response to strong market interest for additional market outlets and increased access to Appalachian natural gas supplies, is planning a further expansion of its East Tennessee Natural Gas (ETNG) system.
After evaluating the requests received from the Greenway open season held in February, ETNG has determined the facilities required for the [...]
Westmoreland Coal Company announced that its Westmoreland Resources, Inc. subsidiary, which owns and operates the Absaloka Mine, has formed Absaloka Coal, LLC and partnered with an East Coast financial institution. Absaloka Coal will serve as the producer and seller of coal leased from the Crow Indian Tribe in Montana, and will benefit from [...]
Platinum Equity announced it has signed a definitive agreement to purchase SCM Metal Products, Inc. from Gibraltar Industries, Inc. for an undisclosed amount. SCM is a global leader in the manufacturing and distribution of copper-based powder and pastes and copper oxide powders to a broad range of industries.
“This is a very exciting time for all [...]
Nucor Corporationannounced that its wholly owned subsidiary, The David J. Joseph Company (”DJJ”), has signed a purchase agreement to acquire the assets of the American Compressed Steel operations of Secondary Resources, Inc. American Compressed is based in Kansas City, Missouri. In addition, DJJ has completed the acquisition of substantially all the assets of Victoria, Texas-based [...]
Westmoreland Coal Company announced it has increased the size of the Company’s Board of Directors from five to six and appointed Michael R. D’Appolonia to its Board by unanimous consent effective today.
Mr. D’Appolonia is currently Director, President and Chief Executive Officer of Kinetics Systems, Inc., an international specialty mechanical contracting company with over 2,000 employees [...]
A unit of Duke Energy Corp. wants to spend about $100 million to install solar panels to generate electricity at as many as 850 sites.
The proposal, filed with the North Carolina Utilities Commission, aims to install the panels at schools, homes, stores and factories.
If approved, Duke Energy Carolinas would spend two years installing the panels, [...]
Duke Energy Corp. said Wednesday it plans to buy all the power generated at a massive solar power plant to be built north of Charlotte.
The Charlotte-based utility is expected to purchase more than 16 megawatts of power from SunEdison LLC, a Maryland company that is one of the nation’s leading providers of solar-produced energy. The [...]
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 [...]
Uranium City Resources (TSX-V: UCR) (”UCR”), a junior uranium exploration company with significant property holdings in the past producing Beaverlodge / Uranium City Mining District in north-west Saskatchewan, is pleased to announce that effective May 19, 2007 and subject to regulatory approval, it has retained the services of The Windward Agency, of Charlotte, North Carolina. [...]
Duke Energy estimated it would cost $1.53 billion to build a single coal-fired power unit at its Cliffside power plant in western North Carolina, the state Public Utilities Commission disclosed Wednesday.
Duke Energy Corp. provided the estimate when seeking permission from the commission to build a pair of generators, estimated at $3 billion, at its Cliffside [...]
