June 8, 2015

Enbridge to pay $4 million over 2010 Kalamazoo oil spill in Michigan

The proposed sum is on top of the $75 million the firm agreed to pay to Michigan last month.

June 8, 2015

How Canada’s oilsands are paving the way for driverless trucks — and the threat of big layoffs

The 400-tonne heavy haulers that rumble along the roads of northern Alberta’s oilsands sites are referred to in Fort McMurray as “the biggest trucks in the world,” employing thousands of…

June 8, 2015

G7 agrees to phase out fossil fuels by end of the century

U.S., Canada, Germany, France, the UK, Japan, and Italy agreed to cut greenhouse gases by phasing out the use of fossil fuels by the end of the century.

June 8, 2015

Churchill Mining, Indonesia in talks to solve alleged fraud in coal project licencing

The news comes after Indonesia’s last week decision to drop allegations that the miner had defrauded the state when buying the East Kalimantan coal project.

June 6, 2015

Momentum: The marker that matters

The 12 Top Pick companies at the Metals Investor Forum all share an essential trait: momentum. Despite all that the markets have thrown at them, they continue to pragmatically advance…

June 5, 2015

Most US mining and natural resources jobs lost in six years

Mining and logging was the big exception in Friday's payroll numbers with 18,000 jobs lost in May, the worst month since the global financial crisis.

June 5, 2015

BlackPearl Resources aim to beat oilsands curse

Junior oil sands companies have been falling like dominoes lately, but that doesn’t mean the species is doomed, says the CEO of BlackPearl Resources Ltd., insisting his junior oilsands company…

June 5, 2015

Using satellites to move millimetres of earth

A 40 to 60 per cent increase in productivity.

June 4, 2015

What’s ahead for copper, coal, iron ore and China according to Joy Global

Mixed picture.

June 4, 2015

Coal and copper weigh on Joy Global results

Markets are attempting to establish a trough.