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Why there's no bringing coal back - Brookings

Although coal mining and coal-fired electricity generation are small contributors to the overall U.S. economy and employment, the decline of coal has had tragic consequences in certain communities ...

The Canary in the Coal Mine? - Absolute Return Partners - Commentaries ...

Jul 12, 2022The Canary in the Coal Mine? by Niels Clemen Jensen of Absolute Return Partners, 7/12/22 Leave a Comment The chaos in Sri Lanka Sri Lanka is in turmoil. The mob have stormed the residence of the country's president, who has subsequently agreed to step down.

Grosvenor mine | Peeling back the onion - Mine Safety News

Coal mine fires, explosions and spontaneous combustion events simply don't just 'occur.' For as long as men have hacked away at coal underground in mines around the world, these conditions have always had to be managed. For hundreds of years, coal miners have had to contend with these issues.and so too have mining safety regulators ...

Coal Workers Union Doesn't Always Represent Coal Worker Values

Commentary. GRAYSVILLE, Pa.—When coal mine employee John Morecraft heard that United Mine Workers of America President Cecil Roberts approved of President Joe Biden's plan to move the nation ...

Commentary: Coal miners weren't happy when Manchin derailed Build Back ...

Jan 31, 2022When Democratic West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin III, a well-known coal baron, withdrew support from the Build Back Better agenda, the Biden administration's landmark climate and social safety net bill, an influential coal-mining union was quick to respond.

Quinn: Congress can act to help miners survive a regulatory onslaught

An independent analysis based on real mines — 36 located in every coal mining region — found the rule would jeopardize at least one-third of the current high-wage coal workforce.

South Africa: Abandoned Coal Mines Risk Safety, Rights

Across the country, only 27 mines (all mining asbestos) of the 2,322 classified as "high-risk," including coal mines, have been cleaned up since 2009, South Africa's auditor general reported ...

Coal market outlook | The Coal Hub

The rebound in coal demand in 2021 is set to be short-lived, with coal use forecast to flatten out by 2025 at around 7.4 billion tonnes. This would make 2013, when global coal demand reached 8 billion tonnes, coal's all-time peak. But while coal's share in both the electricity mix and the overall energy mix are in steady decline, coal use ...

Commentary - Colorado Newsline

This commentary originally appeared in BigPivots. Crested Butte, a one-time coal mining town, has now turned its back on natural gas. Town councilors unanimously agreed that any new building erected on the 60 vacant lots cannot be served by gas. Major remodels must be electric ready. It's Colorado's first natural gas ban, although 80 ...

Rodricks was right: Coal is no good for Maryland | READER COMMENTARY

Readers weigh in on coal mining in Maryland. One suggestion to end it: A carbon tax with revenue rebated to U.S. households offers the best way to transition from fossil fuels to clean ...

China coal shares soar as investors bet economics trump emissions

3 days agoImported coal is seen lifted by cranes from a coal cargo ship at a port in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, China on Jul 26, 2018. (File photo: Reuters/Stringer) 31 Aug 2022 12:02PM (Updated: 31 Aug ...

Yanzhou Coal Mining - YZCAY - Stock Price Today - Zacks

Get the latest Yanzhou Coal Mining YZCAY detailed stock quotes, stock data, Real-Time ECN, charts, stats and more. Quote Overview. Stock Activity. Open: 41.96: Day Low: 40.13: Day High: 41.96: 52 ...

I grew up in Pennsylvania coal country. It wasn't pretty and it's time ...

Apr 26, 2021Apr 26, 2021. When I was born in the heart of anthracite coal country in the 1950s, coal mines were still operating. Their prospects today—particularly after the United Mine Workers of America union just announced their support for a transition away from coal— look different. Coal has long had a storied history in northeastern Pennsylvania.

Commentary Mining News - The Northern Miner

Mar 17, 2021Column, Commentary July 4, 2022 Boris Johnson's government seems set to approve the first new underground coal mine in the U.K. for 36 years. Such an outcome (a decision is. The view from England: Cost of capital is rising but perspective required Multi-stakeholder collaboration needed to rise to meet the battery metal boom

Commentary: Is Saving Coal A Fool's Errand? - Yahoo Finance

Coal's possible decline was a factor in Norfolk Southern's (NS) market diversification strategy and the acquisition of Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail). Coal was a high-margin legacy ...

Commentary Mining News - The Northern Miner

Latest. July 4, 2022 | Nevada Copper arranges US$70M loan for Pumpkin Hollow, suspends underground mining work; July 4, 2022 | U.S. Markets fall during June 27-July 1 trading week; July 4, 2022 | TSX falls during June 27-July 1 trading week; July 4, 2022 | S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index tumbles more than 5% in June 27-July 1 trading week; July 4, 2022 | Rock Tech Lithium assays up to 1.37% ...

Commentary: Trump's job promises won't help struggling coal counties

A load out line at the Century Mine carries cleaned coal to a transport area near Beallsville, Ohio, January 25, 2013. ... For more Reuters Commentary coverage of Trump's first 100 days, ...

Canary In An Inflationary Coal Mine | Kitco News

The demand-side drivers of the gold price are the Western fear trade and the Eastern love trade. The fear trade has languished in recent years, leaving the love trade to do the "heavy lifting" for the price. That has gone reasonably well; China's gold mining industry has consolidated and embraced environment-friendly mining.

New commentary from Sen. Robert C. Byrd: Coal industry must respect ...

Coal needs to mined safely and the people who are engaged in the work underground have special needs which need to be fully addressed and the lives of the people living near these highly industrial areas need to be protected. Coal mining needs to benefit from 21st century technology to minimize black lung.

Commentary: Rural Grocers Stock Small Communities with Quality of Life

What had been a somewhat sustainable gardening and trade economy, hogs and logs, was replaced by industrial coal mining to fuel the country's growth. That quickly meant hundreds of thousand of miners coming into the region, new housing to shelter them, and food for them to eat. ... Commentary: Rural Grocers Stock Small Communities with ...

What the past decade can tell us about the future of coal

Dec 2, 2020Between 2009 and 2019, global coal consumption grew by an average of about 1% per year to reach 7.6 billion tonnes, but its share of the world's primary energy supply declined from 28% to 26% over the same period. And its share of electricity generation fell from 40% to 36.5%. From today's perspective - as efforts increase around the ...

Mexico's president revived dangerous form of coal mining

6 days agoAccidents at small coal mines have been depressingly frequent. In June 2021, seven miners were killed at a similar small mine in Muzquiz township, about 80 miles (130 kilometers) southwest of Eagle Pass, Texas. The shaft at the Micarán mine also flooded and partially collapsed, and it took days to recover the miners' bodies.

Coal mining death in West Virginia - WV MetroNews

By Jeff Jenkins. September 2, 2022 - 12:35 pm. BOONE COUNTY, W.Va. — A coal miner has died in a West Virginia mine. Gov. Jim Justice and U.S. Senator Joe Manchin both announced the death Friday ...

King Coal: How Indonesia became the fossil fuel's final frontier

Support for Indonesia's coal-building spree also comes from abroad, particularly from three countries: South Korea, China and Japan account for $25 billion in financing for 17.4 GW of coal-fired ...

Across the World, Coal Power Is Back - theepochtimes

Commentary In the United States, coal consumption hit an all-time high in 2013, and soon after, almost every Wall Street bank and liberal activist declared coal as dead. Still, coal energy was the ...

Coal royalty increase takes a toll on mine jobs

4 days agoBHP chief executive Mike Henry told the ASX this month that the company would pause plans on the Blackwater South metallurgical coalmine in central Queensland in part because of changes to the state's royalty scheme, which "were quite sudden".

Buchanan metallurgical coal mine to expand after deal with Virginia ...

Aug 24, 2022Of the roughly 11.3 million tons of coal mined in Virginia in 2021, over 4.8 million tons came from the complex, according to data from the Virginia Department of Energy. In the same year, the facility employed about a quarter of the state's coal mine workers — 510 of Virginia's overall 1,949 as reported to Virginia Energy.

Joe Manchin Just Cooked the Planet - Rolling Stone

Third, the coal industry that Manchin is working so hard to protect is already a dead man walking. Coal is in freefall. In 2020, 543 million tons of coal were mined in the U.S., about half as much ...

Commentary: Airline meltdowns are the canary in the coal mine

Commentary: Airline meltdowns are the canary in the coal mine. By Matt Sigelman and Ken Mehlman Chicago Tribune | Saturday, September 3, 2022, 12:05 a.m. For would-be vacationers, this has been ...

Guest Commentary | Does Illinois need another coal mine?

In April 2019, after Sunrise Coal spent 30 months of addressing 62 points of necessary modifications, IDNR approved the permit for the mine. Stand Up To Coal and other petitioners responded by ...

Energies | Free Full-Text | Research on Underground Coal Mine Map ...

The underground space of a coal mine is long and narrow, the environment is complex and changeable, the structure is complex and irregular, and the lighting is poor. This is a typical unstructured environment, which poses a great challenge to SLAM. This paper summarizes the current research status of underground coal mine map construction based ...

Federal notice on surface coal mining a 'significant loss of power by ...

The surface mining notice continues the legal aftermath of the July 2020 SCOTUS ruling in McGirt v Oklahoma, which affirmed the Muscogee Nation to be an Indian Country reservation as defined under ...

Coal Mining in Pennsylvania - Department of Environmental Protection

During 1997 over 73 million tons of bituminous coal was mined in Pennsylvania. More than 75% of the total production came from underground mines. The ratio of underground production versus total production has steadily increased over the past decade and is currently at levels not seen since the mid-1950s. The annual surface mining production ...

Gene Kitts: Op-Ed Commentary - Friends of Coal

The Gazette appears to be interested only in promoting an anti-mining agenda, not in accurately and honestly informing the public. For those readers interested in history, the Clean Water Act was passed in 1972, the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act (SMCRA) followed in 1977, and the current buffer zone regulation was adopted in 1983.

The Most Important Canary in the Coal Mine | Kitco News

Commentaries from newsletter writers and analysts that take an in-depth look at specific metals, breaking down technical and fundamental market movements related to anything that affects the precious metals market. ... The Most Important Canary in the Coal Mine Friday June 19, 2015 16:10.

W.Va. coal production on the rise for 2022 - WV MetroNews

During 2019 West Virginia mines produced 100.3 Million tons of coal. Production dropped off drastically in 2020 to 69.3 Million tons amid the pandemic. The rate increased in 2021 to 80.8 Million ...

BHP Commentary on Iron Ore - SteelGuru Business News

Coal & Mining. BHP Commentary on Iron Ore BHP in latest annual report said "Iron ore demand and prices rose to record highs during 2021 as China's imports remained well above .

China's July daily coal output jumps 16% year on year on peak summer ...

The country produced 372.66 million tonnes of coal last month, equivalent to 12.02 million tonnes per day, data from the China's July daily coal output jumps 16% year on year on peak summer demand ...

India's mining sector: Present is tense and future could be imperfect

At present, India's overall installed renewable capacity is 87.66 GW and of installed solar power capacity is around 35 GW. However, the push and focus on renewable do not mean India is cutting down its focus on coal. According to CIL, in the next five years, it is going to open 55 new coal mines and expand at least 193 present ones.

Daily Mail ignores WVU coal health studies, then publishes mining ...

Headley's commentary is headlined, ... I agree that only 17 of 94 published papers have been related to coal mining, but his first 64 were before coming to WV, and had nothing to do with mining, so 17 of his last 30 have been about mining. During most of this time he has been operating under a grant from Rural Health Research Grant Program ...

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Why there's no bringing coal back - Brookings

The Canary in the Coal Mine? - Absolute Return Partners - Commentaries ...

Grosvenor mine | Peeling back the onion - Mine Safety News

Coal Workers Union Doesn't Always Represent Coal Worker Values

Commentary: Coal miners weren't happy when Manchin derailed Build Back ...

Quinn: Congress can act to help miners survive a regulatory onslaught

South Africa: Abandoned Coal Mines Risk Safety, Rights

Coal market outlook | The Coal Hub

Commentary - Colorado Newsline

Rodricks was right: Coal is no good for Maryland | READER COMMENTARY

China coal shares soar as investors bet economics trump emissions

Yanzhou Coal Mining - YZCAY - Stock Price Today - Zacks

I grew up in Pennsylvania coal country. It wasn't pretty and it's time ...

Commentary Mining News - The Northern Miner

Commentary: Is Saving Coal A Fool's Errand? - Yahoo Finance

Commentary Mining News - The Northern Miner

Commentary: Trump's job promises won't help struggling coal counties

Canary In An Inflationary Coal Mine | Kitco News

New commentary from Sen. Robert C. Byrd: Coal industry must respect ...

Commentary: Rural Grocers Stock Small Communities with Quality of Life

What the past decade can tell us about the future of coal

Mexico's president revived dangerous form of coal mining

Coal mining death in West Virginia - WV MetroNews

King Coal: How Indonesia became the fossil fuel's final frontier

Across the World, Coal Power Is Back - theepochtimes

Coal royalty increase takes a toll on mine jobs

Buchanan metallurgical coal mine to expand after deal with Virginia ...

Joe Manchin Just Cooked the Planet - Rolling Stone

Commentary: Airline meltdowns are the canary in the coal mine

Guest Commentary | Does Illinois need another coal mine?

Energies | Free Full-Text | Research on Underground Coal Mine Map ...

Federal notice on surface coal mining a 'significant loss of power by ...

Coal Mining in Pennsylvania - Department of Environmental Protection

Gene Kitts: Op-Ed Commentary - Friends of Coal

The Most Important Canary in the Coal Mine | Kitco News

W.Va. coal production on the rise for 2022 - WV MetroNews

BHP Commentary on Iron Ore - SteelGuru Business News

China's July daily coal output jumps 16% year on year on peak summer ...

India's mining sector: Present is tense and future could be imperfect

Daily Mail ignores WVU coal health studies, then publishes mining ...

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