Bulldozers and excavators turned the bell towers of a late 19th century church in western Germany into a pile of rubble on Tuesday to make way for a massive open-pit coal mine. The St. Lambertus Catholic church in Immerath, west of Cologne, was one of the last major structures to remain standing in the
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Robert Murray, the chief executive one of America's largest coal mining companies, criticized U.S. regulators on Tuesday for rejecting the Trump administration's proposed subsidies for aging coal and nuclear power plants - saying the decision could lead to higher electricity costs
Immerath and its church have been doomed since 2013, when Germany's constitutional court found that there was an overwhelming public interest in allowing energy firm RWE to expand its nearby Garzweiler open-cast brown coal mine. Almost all the 900 villagers have long since quit their homes, among
FILE - In this Aug. 20, 2007 file photo, Robert "Bob" Murray, founder and chairman of Cleveland-based Murray Energy Corp., arrives at a news conference at the entrance to the Crandall Canyon Mine, in northwest of Huntington, Utah. In the early days of the Trump administration, Murray, the head of one of
BOGOTA - Production and exports at Cerrejon, Colombia's largest thermal coal mine, fell in 2017 for the third straight year as heavy rainfall affected operations, the mine's owners said on Wednesday. Output reached 31.9-million tonnes in 2017, 0.3% below the previous year. Exports totalled 31.7-million
A 19th-century village cathedral in western Germany was razed to the ground on Tuesday to make way for the expansion of coal mega mines.
Cerrejon's offer is above the 4.09% inflation for last year, but Amaya said its offer does not meet union expectations given strong coal prices in recent months. If union members vote to strike, the stoppage could begin three days after. The last strike in Cerrejon, which produces coal at its open pit mine in La
After all, here we are at the start of 2018 still talking about the prospect of allowing the largest thermal coal mine in Australia to proceed, heavily subsidised by the taxpayer, opposed by over 70 per cent of people who know about the project, in a context of the thermal coal trade in structural decline and in the
Open pit coal mines have become a major political issue in Germany, which still relies on coal for about 40 percent of its energy needs despite pledges to move to cleaner energy sources to meet climate change commitments. Some 25 percent of energy needs are met by power plants fired by high-polluting
WASHINGTON, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Robert Murray, the chief executive one of America's largest coal mining companies, criticized U.S. regulators on Tuesday for rejecting the Trump administration's proposed subsidies for aging coal and nuclear power plants - saying the decision could lead to higher electricity
The first mine appeared near Peoria not long after, but it wasn't until 1830, when coal from Belleville found a market in nearby St. Louis, that the industry took off, according to Keith Weil and Alvin K. Grandys, who wrote the 1976 Illinois Coal Digest, a publication from the Illinois Department of Business and
ALBERTA - The soon-to-be new owner of the Grande Cache metallurgical coal mine northwest of Edmonton says they want to reopen it. The previous operator was forced into
Additionally, the company must get its ducks in a row, McKerracher told the Regional District of East Kootenay (RDEK) board of directors Jan. 5. "On the principle of the whole operation my council chose not to support the project. We support coal mines, absolutely," he said, but the Bingay project has been
The first mine appeared near Peoria not long after, but it wasn't until 1830, when coal from Belleville found a market in nearby St. Louis, that the industry took off, according to Keith Weil and Alvin K. Grandys, who wrote the 1976 Illinois Coal Digest, a publication from the Illinois Department of Business and
The Republican-controlled Federal Energy Regulatory Commission or FERC unexpectedly and unanimously rejected Energy Secretary Rick Perry's plan to boost nuclear plants and slow down the closure of coal-powered plants. According to Perry, the US' power grid would become vulnerable if more
Nelspruit - Rural communities in Mpumalanga have been granted a 16.1% stake in a coal mine following a ground-breaking agreement reached after Sentula Mining secured a R151 million loan from the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC). The agreement will put an end to tensions between the
SOFIA (Bulgaria), January 8 (SeeNews) - Bulgarian coal mine Troyanovo-1 recorded an output of 13.2 million tonnes in 2017, the highest in the mine's 65-year history, its operator, state-owned Mini Maritsa Iztok company, said. The mine's 2017 production plan envisaged an output of 11.4 million tonnes of
As one hand giveth, the other taketh away. Without getting too biblical, it appears that North American coal mining took a step forward in Canada last week but one foot back south of the border at the same time. The small community of Grand Cache, Alberta, was feeling optimistic going into the new year on
The first mine appeared near Peoria not long after, but it wasn't until 1830, when coal from Belleville found a market in nearby St. Louis, that the industry took off, according to Keith Weil and Alvin K. Grandys, who wrote the 1976 Illinois Coal Digest, a publication from the Illinois Department of Business and
It was announced this past week that a coal mine - the 4 West Mine - in southwestern Pennsylvania will close. It's another blow to the coal industry, which President Trump has promised to revive. Mepco, the company that owns 4 West, said it would be shutting down the Greene County mine because it had