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UPDATE 1-Australia's Queensland coal exports hit record as glut mounts
2014-10-13 12:49:46| Grocery - Topix.net
Australian coal miners are shrugging off a global glut of the fuel, exporting a record 158.5 million tonnes in the January-September period from the key mining state of Queensland, industry figures showed. Mining companies are still adding capacity and pushing out exports of both coking and thermal coal, even though an import tariff in China has raised worries about output overcapacity at a time when prices are near their lowest in five years.
UPDATE 1-Australia's Queensland coal exports hit record as glut mounts
2014-10-13 09:58:07| Food - Topix.net
Australian coal miners are shrugging off a global glut of the fuel, exporting a record 158.5 million tonnes in the January-September period from the key mining state of Queensland, industry figures showed. Mining companies are still adding capacity and pushing out exports of both coking and thermal coal, even though an import tariff in China has raised worries about output overcapacity at a time when prices are near their lowest in five years.
After nearly a century, West Virginia coal battle rages on
2014-10-12 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: At the dirt road entrance to the Mingo Logan Coal Company site along Route 17 in rural West Virginia, a white metal sign hangs, riddled with bullet holes, announcing "NO TRESPASSING" in red lettering. Kenny King doesn't much care. The 59-year-old has been trespassing here about weekly since 1991. That's when he first began an effort to transform this place on top of a mountain in the middle of dense forest about 50 miles south of Charleston, West Virginia from a coal mine into a national monument....
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Lab Official Pleads Guilty Faking Water Quality Tests for Coal Companies
2014-10-10 20:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: A West Virginia lab technician pleaded guilty yesterday to a charge of faking water sample quality tests so that coal mining companies could be guaranteed clean reports to submit to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), reports the Charleston Gazette. John W. Shelton worked for Appalachian Laboratories Inc. (AL), a company certified by DEP to conduct such tests as part of the Clean Water Act. The company conducts tests...
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Duke Energy finds 830 private wells near its coal ash ponds
2014-10-09 10:15:49| Energy - Topix.net
The Allen Steam Station in Gaston County has 410 private wells within a half mile of its coal ash ponds. N.C. officials say Duke Energy has identified 830 private and public drinking-water wells within a half-mile of its 32 coal ash ponds in North Carolina.
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