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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.
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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.

BMT WBM, a subsidiary of BMT Group Ltd, will be participating in the forthcoming AIMEX 2015 and demonstrating its PULSE TerraMetrix system.

Australia-based Paringa Resources is to list its shares on the OTCQX Best Market in the US as it seeks to progress development of the company’s Buck Creek mining complex in the Illinois Basin.

Two groups bid for Krabi coal-fired power project in Thailand. These bids will only be legally binding once the project obtains the environmental and health impact assessment approval.

Rio Tinto’s coal business have reported net earnings of US$25 million in the first six months of the year, down over 60% on the previous year.

Duke Energy’s current groundwater assessment reports for North Carolina coal plants are underway.

Patriot Coal has issued layoff warnings to over 1000 of its workers in Kanawha County, West Virginia, as part of its agreement to see many of its assets to Blackhawk Mining.

Singaporean private investment company, Yishun Brightwise Investment, is to buy 9.5% of Coal of Africa to help develop the Makhado coal project.

Quaker Chemical Corp. exhibits DUSTGRIP® – a family of dust suppressant products – to help improve dust control in mining operations.