Recent market turmoil and economic uncertainty had little impact on auction prices at the US$45 million unreserved public auction conducted by Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers in Orlando, Florida last week. More than 1,800 on-site and online bidders from 48 countries, including 46 U.S. states, registered to bid on more than 2,500 trucks and heavy equipment items [...]
Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers, the world’s largest auctioneer of industrial equipment, attracted thousands of on-site and online bidders to nine unreserved public auctions in four countries last week, including the largest Reno, Nevada auction in Company history. The October 3, 2008 Reno auction generated US$20 million in gross auction proceeds. Ritchie Bros. also conducted a US$33 [...]
Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers Incorporated announces another record-breaking quarter, with quarterly gross auction proceeds exceeding $1 billion for the first time. Net earnings for the six months ended June 30, 2008 reached $62.3 million, or $0.59 per diluted weighted average share. Net earnings for the first half of 2008 would have been $55.0 million, or $0.52 [...]
Energy provider Southern Co. said Monday construction has begun on what it called an efficient, low-emission coal facility which will help the company meet increased power demand.
The facility, at the Stanton Energy Center in Orange County, Fla., will turn coal into synthetic gas for generating electricity, while reducing emissions of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides [...]
In December, when Congress moved the line on offshore drilling closer to Florida’s shores, it was touted as a major victory for Florida’s tourism-based economy because the measure preserved a significant no-drilling zone along Florida’s coastline.
But the area opened to oil and gas drilling was just a fraction of the publicly-owned waters the industry hoped [...]
U.S. Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman has signed a so- called record of decision that makes way for a $569 million coal-fired power plant to be built near Orlando, Fla., the Department of Energy said Tuesday.
The plant, which will use a unique coal gasification technology to make it cleaner and more efficient than traditional coal plants, [...]
Goodrich Petroleum Corporation announced that the Company’s Vice-Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Walter G. Goodrich and President, Robert C. Turnham, Jr., will present at the Raymond James 28th Annual Institutional Investors Conference in Orlando, Florida at the Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress on Monday, March 5, 2007, at 1:40 pm Eastern Time. A copy of the [...]
The Florida Public Service Commission today hears testimony in Tallahassee on the need for the proposed coal-fired power plant in Taylor County.
Tallahassee is a partner in the proposed 800-megawatt plant near Perry. Environmentalists say the plant would cause air pollution and contribute to global climate change.
PSC officials have said the hearing won’t deal with environmental [...]
U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, who has fought oil and gas drilling off Florida’s coast, said Monday that Americans must become less reliant on foreign oil.
Nelson called for more use of ethanol and hybrid cars, and for new federal requirements that automobiles get 40 miles per gallon of fuel.
“You can’t drill your way out of [...]
Environmentalists attacked Florida’s Sen. Mel Martinez for backing a plan to open more of the Gulf of Mexico to drilling.
Environmentalists Tuesday stepped up criticism of a Senate measure to open the Gulf of Mexico to oil and gas drilling, running radio spots and newspaper ads that blast Florida’s Sen. Mel Martinez for signing off on [...]
