August 5, 2011 Fake Twitter accounts used to promote tar sands pipeline The Guardian has an amusing story about allegations that oil company lobbyists have set up fake Twitter accounts in support of Keystone XL. Here's an example of one Tweet: "If…
August 5, 2011 Uranium set to overtake diamonds as Namibia’s largest foreign currency earner According to a new report by Research & Markets high uranium prices, paralleled by growing global demand for energy, will result in Namibia doubling its uranium production to approximately 12,000…
August 5, 2011 Copper sinks to two-month low, demand fears dominate London copper fell to its lowest in more than a month on Friday as investors retreated from the industrial metal on escalating fears over economic and demand growth in the…
August 5, 2011 Pricking the carbon finance bubble Hazel Henderson writes for Reuters, after the first year of the Dodd-Frank reform in the USA, the too-big-to-fail financial bubble still looms. Missed by Frank-Dodd are the obsolete fossilized asset…
August 5, 2011 Thomson Reuters buys GFMS The news and information service announced Friday it had acquired UK-based, private metals analysis firm GFMS for an undisclosed sum in a bid to expand its metals information offerings News…
August 5, 2011 Denison Mines downgrades 2011 uranium, vanadium sales projections Mineweb reports on Denison Mines' (TSE:DML,AMEX:DNN) downgrading 2011 uranium sales projections.
August 5, 2011 Clean coal’s uncertain future in Germany The recent passing of a carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology bill by the Bundestag (German Parliament) should be seen as a small victory in the battle to make CCS…
August 5, 2011 Mining, energy sectors lead Canadian stocks lower Toronto’s main stock index closed down 435 points Thursday as Japanese intervention in the yen and concern over the spreading sovereign-debt crisis sent the U.S. dollar soaring, and oil and…
August 5, 2011 Crash: It’s carnage across the board Australian shares have fallen to levels not seen since the GFC as investors reacted to the carnage on Wall St and European markets overnight. The local market shed more than…
August 5, 2011 Macarthur Coal lures bidders as Peabody rouses China Peabody Energy Corp. is leaving the door open for a rival bidder to step in for Macarthur Coal Ltd. by offering less for the Australian mining company than it did…
Friedland sees growth opportunities as US looks to DRC for critical minerals Ivanhoe plans to open offices in New York and Washington DC as executives work to understand the US government’s viewpoint. February 19, 2026 | 10:09 am
