Energy Top Stories

Canada’s oil sands firms face pressure to spend on transition

While oil sands companies are being cautious with cash, Alberta has asked Ottawa to fund a C$30-billion, 10-year program to develop carbon capture.

Reuters | April 1, 2021 | 5:06 am

Germany to shut down 1.5 GW of coal generation by December

Germany has promised to abandon coal by 2038 and achieve…

Cecilia Jamasmie | April 1, 2021 | 3:50 am

Stars are aligning for uranium price rally

Two new reports argue for a leap in uranium prices…

Frik Els | March 31, 2021 | 4:44 pm

Nuclear energy could drive decarbonisation in Canada’s heavy industries – report

Research shows small modular reactors' potential to decarbonize heat and…

MINING.com Editor | March 31, 2021 | 3:34 pm

New fuel from plastic waste aims to replace fossil fuels in marine industry

Clean Planet Energy plans to use non-recyclable waste plastics to…

MINING.COM Staff Writer | March 31, 2021 | 7:01 am

France’s Areva to cut Niger uranium production on price drop

Decision is in response to falling uranium prices, a local union leader said.

Reuters | October 11, 2017 | 3:00 am

China’s top coke producer to curb output in pollution war

Shanxi Coking will trim around 900,000 tonnes of coke and 360,000 tonnes of chemicals from production during the coming winter months.

Reuters | October 11, 2017 | 2:00 am

Elliott tours BHP investors in renewed push for radical shake-up – sources

Representatives from Elliott have in the last month met with major BHP investors based in London, South Africa and Australia to lay out the activist fund's arguments for an overhaul of the miner.

Reuters | October 10, 2017 | 7:08 am

Mercury from the northern hemisphere reaches Australia

By tracing the air backwards in time, the scientists found that high-mercury air travelled over the Indonesian archipelago before arriving in Australia.

Valentina Ruiz Leotaud | October 9, 2017 | 12:04 pm

Argentinian senator expresses opposition to Canadian miner’s uranium exploration

Magdalena Odarda says Blue Sky Uranium's exploration is taking place at sites of paleontological significance.

Valentina Ruiz Leotaud | October 9, 2017 | 9:34 am

Sherritt International fined $1 million for coal mine spills in Canada

Sherritt pleaded guilty in the Provincial Court of Alberta to three counts of contravening the Fisheries Act.

Valentina Ruiz Leotaud | October 9, 2017 | 8:27 am

New program in Queensland aims to attract 3,000 new mining jobs

The Queensland Government is getting behind a pilot program that, together with an industry group, is hoping to bring thousands of mining equipment and services positions to the Bowen Basin within the next decade.

Andrew Topf | October 8, 2017 | 5:14 pm

Chinese companies to build 700 coal plants in and outside China

Of all the new coal generation expected to go online over the next decade, Chinese companies will build nearly half of it.

Andrew Topf | October 8, 2017 | 4:35 pm

Australians protest Carmichael coal mine in ‘national day of action’

Australians opposed to the Adani Group's Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin of Queensland expressed their displeasure at the project on Saturday.

Andrew Topf | October 8, 2017 | 3:49 pm

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