Coal - 07 August 2015

A round-up of some of this week’s key news items from the international coal industry, from outlooks on the Clean Power Plan to the latest project developments.

The Coal Association of Canada is to honour long-time industry veteran, David Fawcett, and SaskPower’s Boundary Dam CCS project with awards this year.

Arch Coal will pay a US$2 million civil penalty and upgrade its Clean Water Act compliance systems under a settlement with the US Environmental Protection Agency and US Department of Justice.

Millar Argent’s plans to develop a new opencast coal mine in south Wales have been rejects by the local council’s planning committee.

New World Resources has announced the deaths of three miners at its OKD 1 underground coal mine in the Czech Republic.