June 11, 2012 Thohir plans coal-fired future for Indonesia Coal exports are one of Indonesia’s biggest foreign-exchange earners. So it seems counterproductive for Jakarta to be considering export restrictions and increased royalties for coal, as part of a sweeping…
June 11, 2012 China eases the way Over the past decade, there were only two periods when the Chinese government reduced rates.
June 11, 2012 EPA’s Lisa Jackson: News sources rural folk rely on ‘not really being truthful’ The UK's Guardian newspaper conducted a far-ranging interview with Lisa Jackson, chief administrator for the US Environmental Protection Agency since 2009, on energy, climate change and the battle in the…
June 10, 2012 Another company attempts to block First Uranium’s asset sale First Uranium's (TSE:FIU) plan to sell some of its South African assets was thrown into further disarray after Kumvest (Pty) Ltd. offered to buy First Uranium in order to block…
June 10, 2012 Aging power plants in Ohio face uncertain futures COLUMBUS, Ohio Eight aging electric generating plants powered by coal in Ohio are facing uncertain futures. They could be demolished or sold as utilities try to meet clear air standards.…
June 10, 2012 SA coal juniors should focus on local market – analyst Junior coal miners need to shift attention to domestic market, cash in on drop in export prices, says commodities analyst.
June 9, 2012 Chop-fest What a whippy week it was. Volatility spiked and then subsided into the end of the week which meant it was a great day-trading environment but then that petered off…
June 9, 2012 Churchill Mining’s US$2 billion lawsuit against Indonesia gets lift from NY Times British coal miner, Churchill Mining (LON:CHL), and its case against the Indonesia government got a leg up when its two-year legal battle was profiled in the New York Times.
June 9, 2012 An 1865 economic study of coal explains why bankers and financial firms will pay more for IT and resource companies will pay less William Jevons, a British economist, was looking at his country’s dwindling coal supplies in the mid-1800s and was asked if increased efficiency in […]
June 8, 2012 Damn the torpedoes Last week in an interview on CBS Network News, Economist Mark Zandi, the chief economist for Moody's, unwittingly revealed a central error of the global economic establishment. Zandi has made…
Iran says potential energy, mining deals on table in talks with US Iran has threatened to strike US bases in the Middle East if it is attacked by US forces but on Sunday took a conciliatory line. February 15, 2026 | 09:34 am