December 16, 2011 Canada ranks 5th in the world for coal reserves Canada is sitting on nearly 4% of the world's coal resources, with at least 80 billion tonnes of exploitable coal and 8 billion tonnes classified as commercially feasible under today's…
December 15, 2011 Putin’s plan for world dominance: oppose hydraulic fracturing At a news conference in early November, Overheard reports that Vladimir Putin became quite critical of hydraulic fracturing claiming that the practice causes too much damage to the environment.
December 15, 2011 Australian exploration spending skyrocketing Exploration for coal and iron ore has hit record highs, according to new figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
December 15, 2011 Paladin Energy to start exploring for uranium in Canada next year Australian Paladin Energy (ASX:PDN) sees its ambitions of becoming a major uranium mining house a step closer. After three years of stand-by due to a moratorium on uranium mining on…
December 15, 2011 Alberta steel fabricators cash in on oil sands, NGL growth the silent armies of the oil patch. And whether it is Imperial Oil Ltd.’s $10.9-billion Kearl oil sands project or a single well program operated by a junior explorer, companies…
December 15, 2011 Life at the coal face: Who are the UK’s 21st Century miners? "You get filthy and my nails have never been any good but I absolutely love being a miner." Stuart Foweather started at Cadeby Colliery in Doncaster in 1978 as a…
December 15, 2011 Labrador uranium mining moratorium lifted The Nunatsiavut Assembly is lifting a three-year-old moratorium on uranium mining on Labrador Inuit lands.
December 15, 2011 Ex-journalist, coal lobbyist Tom Duncan dies Tom Duncan, a longtime newspaper and television correspondent who went on to lobby for Kentucky’s coal industry for more than a decade, died late Tuesday at Cardinal Hill Rehabilitation in…
December 15, 2011 Clark touts oil sands, but not pipeline BC Local News Dec-14-2011 Redford both avoided expressing an opinion directly. The twin pipelines would carry lighter petroleum to Alberta and diluted oil sands crude back to a new deep-water port at Kitimat, where…
December 15, 2011 Alberta Shuts In Gas Wells to Protect Oil Sands Development Oil Daily Alberta's oil sands industry has scored an important victory in the province's ongoing gas-versus-bitumen battle, with the province's oil and gas regulator deciding this week to shut in…
ERG signs long-term gallium supply deal with Mitsubishi Kazakhstan, which currently produces no gallium, is set to become the world's second-largest producer. December 20, 2025 | 08:34 am
