by Gordon Barratt | Aug 28, 2020 | News
WesTrac has opened an autonomous technology training centre near Collie in Western Australia – the second facility of its kind in the world. The training centre will focus on the technical skills required to operate autonomous equipment used in the resources sector....
by Gordon Barratt | Aug 28, 2020 | News
The coal-powered Gavin power plant in Cheshire, Ohio. (Photo by Stephanie Keith/Getty Images) Last week, climate activists awoke to a shocking bit of news, delivered by Huffington Post reporter Alexander Kaufman: The Democratic National Committee had dropped an...
by Gordon Barratt | Aug 28, 2020 | News
Mongolia planned to export 40 million tons of coal this year, but around 13 million tons of coal were exported due to COVID-19 pandemic. According to an information provided by the Cabinet Secretariat of the Mongolian government, the coal exports from Mongolia have...
by Gordon Barratt | Aug 28, 2020 | News
The dirtiest electricity is on the rise again, with 62 per cent more coal burned to generate electricity in 2019, compared to the year before. However, University of Auckland renewable energy researcher Kiti Suomalainen said coal provides a small fraction of the...
by Gordon Barratt | Aug 27, 2020 | News
The electric car industry will dominate demand for lithium over the next ten years, Chilean state mining agency Cochilco said on Wednesday, accounting for more than three quarters of the ultralight battery metal’s consumption by 2030, up from one third in 2019....
by Gordon Barratt | Aug 27, 2020 | News
Bobby Stevens’s backup plan encountered an obstacle a few months ago. In March the coronavirus pandemic closed the Kentucky government building where he was set to take his commercial driver’s license test, which he started studying for after he got dismissed by his...
