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Asia pivots to coal as Middle East conflict chokes LNG supply
Asian utilities are boosting coal-fired power generation to cut costs and safeguard energy supply, industry officials say, as the US-Israeli war on Iran chokes liquefied natural gas (LNG) shipments and soaring prices threaten to suppress LNG…
READ: Asian countries switch to coal as Iran war chokes LNG supply
Asian utilities are boosting coal-fired power generation to cut costs and safeguard energy supply, industry officials say, as the US-Israeli war on Iran chokes LNG shipments and soaring prices threaten to suppress LNG demand. Pakistan aims to…
Coal miners eye price windfall as Indonesia plans export curbs
Australian thermal coal miners could be the big winners from an Indonesian government plan to prioritise domestic supply of the energy commodity at the expense of foreign customers. Indonesia is the world's biggest exporter of coal for power…
US Plans First New Coal-Fired Power Plant Since 2013 in Alaska
Terra Energy Center is pouring $1 billion into a deal for a planned coal project in Alaska, marking the first investment in new US coal power in more than a decade. The in-principal agreement with Hyundai Heavy Industries Power Systems for an order…
America's Abandoned Coal Mines Could Become Massive Underground Batteries
Across the US, hundreds of thousands of abandoned mines sit scattered across the landscape. Many of these are coal mines, relics of an industry that once powered the country. There is, therefore, more than a touch of irony to be found in the fact…
Highfields householders in garage access row with charity CISWO
Simon Thake in Highfields, near Doncaster Access to the back of some residents' homes has been blocked after a charity put bollards up at the entrance to the route, householders have said. The Coal Industry Social Welfare Organisation (CISWO), a…
Climate change is the latest weapon in warfare. Trump is indulging it
The day before President Donald Trump ordered bombs dropped on Iran, he visited a Whataburger in Corpus Christi, Texas, just one of several seemingly innocuous stops in the Lone Star State. He was mostly there to celebrate a dredging project…
China targets hydrogen push as Strait of Hormuz crisis jolts energy markets
Beijing is launching a pilot programme to expand industrial use of hydrogen energy, at a time when war in the Middle East is exposing the risks of global reliance on fossil fuels. Iran's effective blockade of the Strait of Hormuz amid its war with…
Core Natural Resources (CNR) - Among the 10 Energy Stocks Positioned to Outperform as the Strait of Hormuz Remains Closed
Core Natural Resources, Inc. (NYSE: CNR) is included among The $200 Oil Playbook: 10 Energy Stocks Positioned to Outperform as the Strait Remains Closed. Core Natural Resources, Inc. (NYSE:CNR) is a world-class producer and exporter of…
Peabody Energy (BTU) Price Target Bumped to $34.50, 'Neutral' Rating Maintained
Peabody Energy Corporation (NYSE: BTU) is included among The $200 Oil Playbook: 10 Energy Stocks Positioned to Outperform as the Strait Remains Closed. Peabody Energy Corporation (NYSE:BTU) is a leading coal producer, providing essential products…
I run a fracking company - New York banned the industry and stuck the poor with the bill
New York is making its poorest residents pay for a political fantasy. The Cuomo administration banned shale fracking in 2014, bowing to the noise of 'fracktivists.' Hochul kept the ban and doubled down. The result: energy poverty for the people who…
Australia: 238 jobs axed at Tahmoor Colliery
Hundreds of workers face immediate redundancy at the Tahmoor Colliery, southwest of Sydney, after liquidator McGrathNicol announced on March 12 that 238 of the 328 employees would be let go. The remaining 90 workers would be kept on to oversee the…
Ruling party backs higher nuclear output amid energy concerns
March 17 (Asia Today) -- This commentary is the Asia Today Editor's Op-Ed. South Korea's ruling Democratic Party and the government have decided to raise the operating rates of nuclear and coal-fired power plants to respond to rising oil prices…
'A fossil fuel state': Legislature cuts renewable energy out of long-term energy plan
In the middle of West Virginia's legislative session came news that a game-changer for the world's energy future could be powered by a West Virginia operation that lawmakers previously supported. Form Energy announced it would deploy what is…
We haven't seen anything yet': China's plan to kick foreign oil habit
In China's vast deserts, its green energy revolution is in plain view. Solar panels stretch across the nation's sun-beaten north, helping power an economy that is embracing renewables at speed. China is adopting green energy at a scale hard to…
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