October 4, 2011 Europe says oilsands is dirty and will get special treatment, Canada disagrees The Wall Street Journal is reporting that EU officials have ruled that oil derived from the oilsands is dirtier. A trade spat […]
October 4, 2011 Global markets in bear grip US stocks were driven down at Tuesday's start as Europe's debt troubles and the US employment outlook continued to rattle investors' nerves. The the major indexes were down for a…
October 4, 2011 Largest futures exchange will now accept $500 million in bullion as real money CME Group, which operates the largest US futures exchanges, will from today increase to $500 million the amount of physical gold its US clearing members can post as collateral for…
October 4, 2011 Amid the gloom, coal-fired power plant construction continues Despite the gloomy talk over coal unit retirements, not all power capacity coming online involves natural gas or renewables.
October 4, 2011 Oil sands stocks decimated After crashing through the $80/barrel level on Friday, the price of US crude oil fell further on Monday to trade just above $76/barrel, the lowest in a year, sending the…
October 3, 2011 Southern Andes Energy Discovers Additional High Grading Uranium Mineralization on Its Tantamaco Project, Peru Highlights Include 1,500 ppm U3O8 (3.0 lbs U3O8 per ton) Across 17.4 Metres and Including 1.74% U3O8 (34.8 lbs/ton) Across 1.2 Metres
October 3, 2011 Wesfarmers slashes coal price but experts see no reason to panic The price of coking coal is likely to remain buoyant despite a recent price cut by Wesfarmers and softening Chinese demand for steelmaking inputs. Wesfarmers, an Australian conglomerate based in…
October 3, 2011 Pipeline opponents say emails biased: New York Times E-mails between the State Department and TransCanada, the company behind a $7 billion proposal to build a pipeline between Canadian oilsands and Gulf Coast refineries, demonstrate "a sometimes warm and…
October 3, 2011 China’s energy-saving campaign saves 150 million tons of coal A national energy-saving campaign involving over 1,000 companies managed to save equivalent to 150 million tons of coal from 2006 to 2010, China's top economic planner said Sunday.
October 3, 2011 Mining: A great sector to play seasonal trends The metals and mining sector offers one of the more consistent seasonal plays each year. Its period of strength is from the end of November to the end of May.…
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