Coal
West Slope Miners Protest Coal Bill
“You might wonder why I got all the applause,” he said speaking to a crowd of hundreds. “It’s (because) I’m just one of the coal miners here. I’m one of the ones … afraid this bill is going to do away with my job.” Winey was one of several coal miners who spoke to members of the Colorado PUC yesterday in Grand Junction during a public input session on the fallout of the Clean Air, Clean Jobs Act.
31Aug2010 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
Lack of Climate Bill Hinders Carbon Storage,
Fed Agencies Say
While the U.S. Department of Energy is funding 15 projects with the aim of safely and economically storing CO2 in geological formations, the lack of a climate bill is hindering any larger scale carbon storage, federal agencies said this week.
13Aug2010 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
Clean Coal, Natural Gas Really Clean?
Environmentalists this week reacted with skepticism to recent support for clean coal and natural gas by Democratic Gov. Bill Ritter and gubernatorial candidate John Hickenlooper, in part, prompted by two Colorado firms winning $14 million in clean coal grants from the DOE.
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Productive Routt County Mine Struggles With Safety Issues
A Colorado coal mine responsible for more than a quarter of all the coal produced in the state is also one of its most dangerous mines, accounting for nearly a third of Colorado’s coal mining injuries last year and incurring more than $600,000 in fines for safety violations since January 2007.
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Colorado Coal Fight Could See Repeat at Nation’s Capital
A fight in the state legislature over a bill that could require the state’s largest utility to switch from coal to cleaner-burning natural gas may be a precursor to a bigger battle in Washington over climate legislation.
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State Task Force to Target Carbon Capture
and Sequestration
The move is intended to help address the cmplex legal, regulatory and policy issues surrounding CO2 capture and sequestration if Colorado’s coal industry is going to succeed in a carbon-constrained economy, said a state official.
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Arch Coal’s Colorado Mine Garners Awards
The company announced that Mountain Coal Company’s West Elk mine employees were honored with a Colorado state safety award and two state environmental awards at the National Western Mining Conference in Denver.
12Feb2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Evergreen Energy in Tentative Deal to Sell K-Fuel Unit
Denver-based Evergreen Energy’s(EEE) stock rose Thursday on news that the company would spin off its K-Fuel unit. The company signed a tentative agreement to sell its proprietary “clean coal” technology to a newly formed subsidiary called Clean Coal China.
8Jan2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Westmoreland Coal’s Losses Grow
The Colorado Springs-based energy company reported its losses for the quarter jumped to $12.4 million from $3.49 million in the same quarter a year earlier. Revenue fell 20.5 percent to $112.4 million during the same period.
10Nov2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Regional Update — Sithe Applies for $450M DOE Grant for Carbon Capture at Desert Rock Enegy Project
The coal-fired facility was designed to incorporate environmental technology to remove 98 per cent of sulphur dioxide, 95 per cent of nitrous oxide and more than 90 per cent of mercury. Desert Rock is located near an existing pipeline used to transport CO2 from Colorado to West Texas.
7Oct2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Arch Coal Building Colorado Plant to
Remove Impurities
The new $25-$30 million facility at its West Elk Mine in Somerset will remove impurities that, according to the company, have contributed to a production slowdown and layoffs. It is expected to be operational by 2010.
11Aug2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Workers Handed Pink Slips at Somerset Mine
61 workers have been laid off at the West Elk Mine, a move prompted by the nation’s continuing recession and more use of alternate electricity generating fuels, according to the mine’s owner, Mountain Coal.
18Jun2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Officials Want Methane Gas Reduced
at Colorado Mines
Concerned because it has 20 times the heat-trapping power of carbon dioxide released from burning coal and other fossil fuels, Federal and state agencies are pushing for methane-capture technology at two western Colorado mines.
25May2009 | admin | 4 comments | Continued
ADA-ES First Quarter Net Loss Widens
The Littleton-based coal technology company says it expects to generate $10 million to $15 million in Activated Carbon sales in 2009, assuming continued consolidation of the results of operations of ADA Carbon Solutions with Energy Capital Partners I, LP and its affiliated funds.
15May2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Evergreen Energy Gets Chinese Government Endorsement
for Cleaner Coal Technology
The NDRC approval for the Denver-based company marks a noteworthy step forward for its K-Fuel technology deployment in China because no new foreign technology can take root there without NDRC review and approval.
15May2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Westmoreland Coal Workers Nix Rosebud Labor Pact — Will Strike
Following several weeks of negotiations, employees rejected a tentative agreement that reperesentatives of the Colorado Springs-based coal company said offered increases in wages and benefits.
24Mar2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued-
Why is Dirty Energy Still So Cheap?
The clean tech sector has experienced remarkable success in the past few years, yet there still remains one huge roadblock from mass implementation – cheap fossil fuels. Some may think this is simply a matter of free-market capitalism at work. The real truth is that petroleum and coal industries continue to receive massive subsidies from governments around the world, while renewable energy firms receive only a small fraction of that amount.
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