August 12, 2011 Canadian pundit Ezra Levant talks ‘ethical’ oil In his book, “Ethical Oil: The Case for Canada’s Oil Sands,” popular Canadian Conservative pundit and media personality Ezra Levant discusses how Canada’s vast reserves in bitumen oil sands is…
August 12, 2011 Australia $11bn mining tax hits another hurdle The Greens leader, Bob Brown, wrote to the Treasurer, Wayne Swan, this week demanding the information be made public before the tax is debated later in the year.
August 11, 2011 Losing our cool in the summer Predictability is a long-sought but elusive state in the modern economy. It seems particularly elusive at the moment. Unusual uncertainty and volatility are delaying the global economy’s healing process. Listen…
August 11, 2011 Odds against oil sands projects rapidly stacking up Recent developments are rapidly stacking the odds against Alberta oil sands: the oil price has fallen 20% in one month, the gap between US crude and world prices hit a…
August 11, 2011 Kirrin airborne survey shows 13 high priority targets at Key Lake uranium project The eastern margin of the Athabasca Basin is home to the most productive and highest grade uranium mines in the world with roughly 25% of the world’s uranium production coming…
August 11, 2011 Reserves grow at Husab Estimated uranium reserves at the Husab uranium project in Namibia have increased by 37%, ensuring an operating life of over 20 years for Extract Resources Ltd's planned mine, the company…
August 11, 2011 Mongolia Energy Riches Attract Neighbors and Outside Interests Pity poor Mongolia, bereft of fiscal resources, caught between the ambitions of its superpower neighbors, Russia and China. Ulaan Bator’s situation is akin to interwar Poland, dexterously attempting to reconcile…
August 11, 2011 The State Service of Mining Supervision and Industrial Safety implements a special regime of control in the Ukrainian coal industry The inspectors who control observance of legislation in the coal industry over the next month will perform their duties in a special mode. This was announced the Head of the…
August 11, 2011 Bangladesh sitting on huge coal deposit without effective exploration Energy-starved Bangladesh is sitting on a huge deposit of coal without any effective exploration plan for its use in generation of electricity, experts said on Wednesday.
August 11, 2011 We will pay for oilsands monitoring The new federal environmental monitoring plan stopped me short on Page 11 of the first part on Air Monitoring. There is an image that shows the NO2 (nitrous oxide) monitoring…
Silver price whipsaws again as thin liquidity fuels wild swings Spot silver was up more than 7% to about $76 an ounce by mid-morning in New York on Friday, having earlier tumbled toward $64. February 06, 2026 | 01:23 pm
