Coal

American Petroleum Institute says Clean Air Act is not designed to address greenhouse gas emissions.

Cockatoo Coal has announced that it has raised AU$ 150.8 million to fund its joint purchase of five coal development and exploration assets in Australia.

New Recovery Act funding boosts industrial carbon capture and storage research and development.

A consortium including B9 Coal, WSP Group, AFC Energy and Linc Energy is to develop a new clean coal project that will combine alkaline fuel cell technology with underground coal gasification.

September 2010: Kay Sever explains how the process of discovery is a subtle but important dynamic in every improvement programme.

The UK Government wish to license under sea CCS.

India’s Adani Group will help to build a coal export railway in Indonesia’s Southern Sumatra Province in another example of the country’s investment in natural resources abroad. Meanwhile, the Mongolian Government has rejected a direct rail link to China from the massive Tavan Tolgoi resource, citing the possible effect such a link would have on its sovereignty.

According to a new report from Wood Mackenzie, a consultancy, CBM will make up a third of unconventional gas supply in China by 2030 and account for 14% of total domestic supply, despite slow production growth.

CAMAC Energy has started drilling as part of its programme to develop the CBM in its Zijinshan gas asset.

Doosan Power Systems has announced that it has completed a year of successful testing at the world’s largest OxyCoal™ Clean Combustion Test Facility. This facility, in combination with the newly opened Post Combustion Carbon Capture (PCCC) plant test facility in Renfrew, UK, makes the site a global centre for carbon capture research.

The Shenhua Baotou Coal to Olefins project, one of the largest units of its kind in the world, has successfully started up in China. The unit uses advanced coal gasification technology provided by GE.

Coal prices have dropped by 10% globally due to falling demand in China, while traditional markets in Europe and South East Asia remain depressed.

African National Congress (ANC) Youth League leader, Julius Malema, has announced that the party will debate nationalisation of the mining industry as part of its national conference in September. Barry Baxter asks whether the party is planning to publicly knock Malema’s proposals on the head?

Evonik Power Minerals has announced the completion of the purchase of the remaining shares in Hargreaves Coal Combustion Products Ltd.

August 2010: Kay Sever outlines what uncooperative attitudes are really costing you.