by Gordon Barratt | Jun 28, 2021 | News
While the world is shifting away from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources, data on planned new mines indicates the global coal mining industry might not be winding down any time soon. At the 47th summit of the Group of Seven (G7) nations in...
by Gordon Barratt | Jun 4, 2021 | News
Plans are in place to increase global coal capacity by almost a third of the 2019 total despite global ambitions to abandon it to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and meet the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees. The new coal capacity of 2277...
by Gordon Barratt | Jan 8, 2021 | News
Newcastle Coal Infrastructure Group Amid its coldest winter since 2013, China shows no sign of thawing its coal impasse with key supplier, Australia. Beijing’s insistence on avoiding Australian coal is leading to blackouts in many parts of China over the past...
by Gordon Barratt | Dec 10, 2020 | News
The U.S. Treasury Department recently imposed new sanctions for Chinese companies and vessels accused of skirting United Nations resolutions banning coal shipments from North Korea. The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) added six new entities — four of them...
by Gordon Barratt | Nov 23, 2020 | News
Tata Steel has tested coking coal samples from Russia for making steel through the blast furnace route, its Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer T V Narendran said. The development assumes significance in the domestic steel industry as a fruitful result of...
