New report predicts mining's majors will increasingly move away from diversification strategies to concentrate on competitiveness in certain core sectors.
With subsidies to Spain's coal industry about to be yanked, striking workers are ratcheting up the pressure on the government and clashing violently with police.
Noted oil economist, Philip Verleger, says the US is moving to energy independence because of the recent innovations in oil production and demand destruction in the country.
House Democrats introduced legislation Tuesday that would require a comprehensive study of the health dangers related to mountaintop removal coal mining. More controversially, the bill would also halt all new mountaintop coal projects until the health study is complete.
Australia-based Foster Stockbroking said Tuesday that an industry-wide restart would boost global uranium demand by 30 million pounds a year which could act as a catalyst to flagging uranium prices.
N-SolvCorp, a small Canadian company based in Calgary, claims it has developed a unique technology that will make Alberta's oil sands more profitable and environmentally sound.
Business Insider's Gregor MacDonald was amazed at solar power's break out in the last energy report from BP, and he wonders if more traditional power sources that are hobbled by cost, regulation and uncertainty will lose to solar power.
Protests in northern Spain are turning violent with riot police using batons and tear gas to squelch striking coal miners who are worried their way of life may be on the way out.