Colombia’s environmental licensing authority has rejected requests to modify permits for coal expansion projects including at top producers Drummond Co and Glencore International’s Prodeco unit over pollution worries, the body said.
Colombia’s top thermal coal exporters, which are ramping up production, are unlikely to fret too much over the denial given the recent drop in coal prices and since spot demand in the country’s main market, Europe, has been limited this year.
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