by Gordon Barratt | Oct 5, 2021 | News
India could face as long as six months battling to ensure coal-fired power plants have enough fuel as the nation’s energy crisis escalates. More than half the nation’s plants are on alert for outages after surging electricity demand and a slump in local coal output...
by Gordon Barratt | Oct 5, 2021 | News
The global energy crisis is rippling into US coal markets, with prices hitting a two year high due to surging demand and years of supply cuts. Coal from the central Appalachia region rose $2.20 to $73.25 a ton for the week ending October 1, according to government...
by Gordon Barratt | Oct 5, 2021 | News
Diversified miner Rio Tinto is hoping to resume full operations at its Kitimat aluminium smelter and the Kemano hydropower facility, in British Columbia, after reaching a new labour agreement with workers. The miner in September announced that it had reached an...
by Gordon Barratt | Oct 5, 2021 | News
BHP Nickel West previously partnered with Toyota in January, 2021. Image: BHP. BHP has created the Green Electric Vehicle (EV) Ecosystem with two major Japanese businesses to supply nickel sulphate for EV batteries from BHP Nickel West in Western Australia. The...
by Gordon Barratt | Oct 4, 2021 | News
China has announced, at international forums, that it won’t finance any new coal-fired power plant project outside its country anymore. This has sent shock waves among stakeholders in Pakistan who were counting on technology and finance from China to utilise the huge...
by Gordon Barratt | Oct 4, 2021 | News
Chinese regulators plan to be more prudent in their response to mining accidents as authorities ask coal producers to ramp up output to help stave off the country’s deepening power crisis. The National Development and Reform Commission told miners at a meeting on...
