by Gordon Barratt | Dec 11, 2020 | News
At China’s biggest coal event in the mining hub of Shanxi, the industry’s top executives signed deals over three days for more coal than other nations typically use in a year. But the bustling deal-making signals deeper problems in a market vital to the smooth-running...
by Gordon Barratt | Dec 11, 2020 | News
During his campaign, President-elect Biden proposed to transform the energy sector and eliminate GHG emissions from the power sector by 2035. Doing so would excise 27 percent of U.S. GHG emissions and help decarbonize other sectors, like transportation, as they...
by Gordon Barratt | Dec 11, 2020 | News
Illustrative photo (Source: Jakarta Post) Indonesia has set its coal production target at 550 million tonnes for 2021, a figure unchanged from this year, due to the raging COVID-19 pandemic. Coal business director Sujatmiko at the Ministry of Energy and Mineral...
by Gordon Barratt | Dec 10, 2020 | News
Private mining firms and arms companies are exerting a hidden and unhealthy influence on the fate of the deep-sea bed, according to a new report highlighting the threats facing the world’s biggest intact ecosystem. An investigation by Greenpeace found a handful of...
by Gordon Barratt | Dec 10, 2020 | News
Institutional investors today backed the findings of a parliamentary review into Rio Tinto’s legal destruction of ancient rockshelters in Western Australia which they said exposed material investment risk without more industry reform. The interim review into how...
by Gordon Barratt | Dec 10, 2020 | News
The Senate on Wednesday in an adopted motion urged the Executive arm of government to initiate investigations into illegal mining of gold in Zamfara and other gold endowed states across Nigeria. The Senate’s decision followed a motion sponsored by the Chief Whip,...
