To strengthen its world-class product and service offerings, Caterpillar Inc. is aligning its machine product and marketing organizations to sharpen customer focus, position the company to achieve its 2010 and Vision 2020 goals and build deep expertise in product development.
“We are well-positioned for long-term success,” said Caterpillar Chairman and CEO Jim Owens. “And Team Caterpillar [...]
Crude oil pipeline operator Enbridge Inc. plans to sell its minority stake in a Spanish petroleum products pipeline company for about $1.37 billion in cash.
The buyers of the 25 percent stake in Cia. Logistica de Hidrocarburos SA are subsidiaries of Deutsche Bank AG, the Public Sector Pension Investment Board, Stichting Pensioenfonds Zorg en Welzijn and [...]
Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. (TSX:CP) is expanding in the U.S. Midwest by paying at least US$1.48 billion for the Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad Corp., a move that will help CP Rail extend its coal and agriculture business.
“It complements what we do and creates a new footprint for growth,” chief executive officer Fred Green told [...]
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa - From the top of a new coal-fired power plant with its 550-foot exhaust stack poking up from the flat western Iowa landscape, MidAmerican Energy Holdings chief executive David L. Sokol peered down at a train looping around a sizable mound of coal.
At this bend in the Missouri River, with Omaha visible [...]
Formalizing a decision it announced in April, Alliant Energy Corp. has asked state regulators for permission to build a coal-fired power plant in Cassville, expanding the existing Nelson Dewey facility.
The proposed 300-megawatt plant would provide enough power for about 150,000 homes. If approved, Alliant hopes to begin construction of the $777 million plant by June [...]
The new, cleaner coal technology “integrated gasification combined-cycle” - better known as coal gasification - holds promise as part of Wisconsin’s next generation of baseload power plants, a state report concludes.
The Department of Natural Resources and the Public Service Commission have been studying coal gasification, which is being pushed by environmentalists but has elicited a [...]
InfraSource Services, Inc., one of the largest specialty contractors servicing electric, natural gas and telecommunications infrastructure in the United States, announced today that M.J. Electric LLC (”M.J. Electric”), an InfraSource company, has been selected to provide construction services for electric transmission line and substation projects for American Transmission Company (”ATC”) in northeastern Wisconsin and Michigan’s [...]
Alliant Energy Corp.’s Iowa utility is selling transmission assets for $750 million in cash to fund construction of a coal-fired power plant and an increase in wind power generation in that state.
Interstate Power & Light Co., a utility of Madison-based Alliant Energy, said Friday that Wisconsin Power & Light Co., Alliant’s Madison utility, is also [...]
Madison residents and members of the Sierra Club delivered 700 postcards to University of Wisconsin Chancellor John Wiley Tuesday in an effort to encourage the university to take steps toward building a more energy-efficient campus.
The postcards — written by members of the Madison community — urged Wiley to revamp the coal-powered Charter Street power plant [...]
A draft Environmental Impact Statement is due soon for a proposed industrial copper mine with the potential of hundreds of jobs and millions of dollars in economic growth for the Iron Range.
As PolyMet Co. prepares to ready the mine for opening over the next two years, opponents are talking about the potential acidic runoff that [...]
