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• New Hope Profit Plunges 67% on Weak Coal Prices

  25 Mar 2014

  New Hope Corp.'s (NHC.AU) profit slumped in its fiscal first half as sharply lower coal prices... . ...Read More

• SouthGobi Seeks Funding to Avoid Default After Coal Slump

  25 Mar 2014

    SouthGobi Resources Ltd. (SGQ), a producer of metallurgical coal in Mongolia, is seeking ... . ...Read More

• Netherlands to stop funding overseas coal power plants

  25 Mar 2014

    The Netherlands will no longer provide money to new coal projects overseas, announced the... . ...Read More

• Coal leaves deep, wide wake in West Virginia

  25 Mar 2014

  Trucks laden high with coal lurch and career into every bend as they barrel down WV Route 3, slipp... . ...Read More

• The Losing Economics of Investing in Aging Coal Plants

  25 Mar 2014

  Across the United States, economics are increasingly favoring investment in renewable energy at th... . ...Read More

• Carbon Tax Freeze to Extend U.K. Coal Profits, New Energy Says

  25 Mar 2014

  U.K. coal-fed power stations will gain an extra year of profitability after the government froze a... . ...Read More

• ‘War on Coal’ is Not the Real Reason Your Utility Rates Will Go Up

  25 Mar 2014

  With new EPA regulations for coal-fired power plants looming ahead, the coal and utilities industr... . ...Read More

• Indonesian coal prices turn slightly soft in dull trend

  24 Mar 2014

  March 24: Prices of Indonesian steam coal remained slightly soft on March 21 amidst low interest f... . ...Read More

• Consumer price index for agri, rural labours unchanged for February

  24 Mar 2014

  March 24: The All-India Consumer Price Index (CPI) numbers for agricultural and rural labourers (b... . ...Read More

• Govt corrects minor error in competitive bidding rules notification

  24 Mar 2014

  March 24: The government has corrected a minor typographical error in its earlier notification on ... . ...Read More

• Pre-bid meet for competitive bidding extended to April 4

  24 Mar 2014

  March 24: The Central Mine Planning and Design Institute Ltd (CMPDI) has extended the pre-bid conf... . ...Read More

• Coal supply eases but calm may be short-lived

  24 Mar 2014

  A slump in power demand from financially-stressed distribution companies might have made India'... . ...Read More

• Interest in importing coal has declined: CIL

  24 Mar 2014

  Coal India Ltd’s (CIL) Rs.3,000 crore plan to import 5 million tonnes (mt) of coal in fisc... . ...Read More

• Essar-led project battle reflects mining pains

  24 Mar 2014

  With an axe on one shoulder and lugging a large log over the other, Bhajandhari Kushwaha emerges f... . ...Read More

• Final bid dates for Odisha, Tamil Nadu UMPPs extended

  24 Mar 2014

  The last dates for submission of final price bids for the two ultra mega power projects in Tamil N... . ...Read More