September 10, 2015

BHP Billiton and SaskPower Partner to accelerate development of carbon capture and storage

BHP Billiton would contribute to the establishment of a global knowledge centre to help promote research and reduce the cost and risk associated with new CCS projects.

September 10, 2015

Australia’s struggling unemployed GEOs ask for visa crackdown to protect jobs

The high rate of unemployment among the geoscientists responsible for Australia’s ongoing mineral wealth discoveries has led to an implored plea to the Federal Government to protect local jobs with…

September 9, 2015

Uranium Energy Corp and the International Atomic Energy Agency advance uranium cooperation with Paraguay’s government

International Atomic Energy Agency (“IAEA”) recently completed technical programs in Paraguay for the Paraguayan Vice Ministry of Mines and Energy in Asuncion designed to support the future exploration and development…

September 9, 2015

Queensland’s ‘enough is enough’ job campaign gains momentum

Queenslanders are standing up for resource sector jobs through an online petition that has kick-started a campaign to close the legal loopholes that are tying up projects in red tape.

September 9, 2015

Public fears put uranium mining on same path as shale gas in Quebec

Fears about radioactive contamination may close the door to uranium mining in Canada's Quebec just as public angst shelved shale gas extraction in the province in 2011.

September 8, 2015

Major banks’ commodities revenue down 25% in first half

Revenue earned by leading banks from commodity trading, selling derivatives to investors and other activities in the sector fell to $2.6 billion from $3.5 billion in the same period of…

September 8, 2015

U.S. court hearings start this week into lawsuit against Enbridge’s Alberta Clipper pipeline

A U.S. court begins hearing arguments this week in a lawsuit that claims increased volumes of oilsands crude have been allowed to flow from Canada into the United States without…

September 8, 2015

INFOGRAPHIC: Most Assets Hurting, but one stock market has bucked the trend

Deutsche Bank recently provided a graphical snapshot that covers the returns of a wide span of assets both YTD and since the mid-August meltdown.

September 8, 2015

Judicial battlefront: Environmentalists look to the air to keep coal underground

Though the on-the-ground efforts of groups like the Sierra Club have played a major role in tripping up coal companies actively mining or seeking new areas to mine, environmentalists' air…

September 8, 2015

As opposition grows, uranium miners fear their days in Quebec are numbered

Fears about radioactive contamination may close the door to uranium mining in Quebec just as public angst shelved shale gas extraction in the province in 2011.