Facing an acute shortage of alumina for its smelter at Jharsuguda, Vedanta Aluminium has asked the Odisha (Orissa) government to impress upon the National Aluminium Company (Nalco) to sell surplus alumina to it. See http://odishatoday.com/viewnews.php?news_id=5396.
Mining group Anglo American has pulled out of the Pebble copper-gold project in Alaska, less than two months after pledging to halve a $17 billion pipeline of potential mines and bring down the cost of keeping future options open. The decision, announced on Monday,...
Coal mining group Bumi, which plans to split with the Indonesian Bakrie family that co-founded the company, said on Monday that the protracted separation deal should complete by November. Bumi, created to bring together Indonesian mining assets in a London-listed...
Marikana inquiry’s mistakes call for a rethink ON October 1 last year, the Marikana Commission of Inquiry held its first day of hearings into the events of and before August 16 of that year, during which 45 people were killed. The commission’s chairman, Judge Ian...
“If the experts at the U.S. Department of Energy are right, the startling “new” fuels of 2040 will be oil, coal, and natural gas — and we will find ourselves on a baking, painfully uncomfortable planet”. See...
Pressure is growing on the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to agree tighter regulations on its funding of new coal power plants. Currently half of the EBRD’s energy portfolio supports fossil fuels, which includes US$1 billion in past financing...
