A new book argues that natural gas is India’s best choice for moving away from coal and fossil fuels
An excerpt from ‘The Next Stop: Natural Gas and India’s Journey to a Clean Energy Future’, edited by Vikram Singh Mehta. Apr 01, 2021 · 08:30 am Miners exit the shaft of a coal mine near Mulang village in the East Jaintia Hills, in Meghalaya. | Roberto Schmidt/AFP
India is caught on the horns of an energy and environmental dilemma.
Its economy is driven by fossil fuels and every report on India’s energy future forecasts that coal and oil will dominate the energy basket. British Petroleum’s “BP Energy Outlook: 2019 Edition” avers, for instance, that fossil fuels (coal, oil and gas) will account for between 70 and 75 per cent of India’s primary energy consumption in 2040. This is down from approximately 90 per cent today.
UMWA issues strike notice at Alabamaâs Warrior Met Coal (Source: WBRC) By WBRC Staff | March 31, 2021 at 2:09 PM CDT - Updated April 1 at 7:13 AM
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - The United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) issued an unfair labor practice strike notice at Warrior Met Coal, Inc., to begin at 10:30 p.m. on April 1, 2021.
The notice covers more than 1,100 workers at all of the companyâs operations, including the #4 mine, the #5 preparation plant, the #7 mine and its Central Shop.
âOur members are the reason Warrior Met even exists today,â UMWA International President Cecil E. Roberts said. âThey made the sacrifices to bring this company out of the bankruptcy of Walter Energy in 2016.
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April 01, 2021
Polish mines sold 4.7 million tonnes of coal in February 2021, an increase from 4.32 million tonnes in the previous month and 4.18 million tonnes in February last year, a state agency has reported.
The data covers all Polish coal producers, the Industrial Development Agency said in its report.
Coal production also increased month on month, to 4.6 million tonnes in February 2021 from 4.44 million tonnes in January 2021. However, coal production in the same month last year was higher, reaching 4.96 tonnes.
Coal inventory decreased in February 2021 to 6 million tonnes from 6.18 million tonnes a month before and from 7.08 million in the previous year.
Prices of hard coal for the Polish power industry edged up by 0.8 percent month on month in February, while the prices of heating coal increased by 3 percent, the agency said.
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(Reuters) - Canadian miner Teck Resources on Friday pleaded guilty to two charges of violation under the country’s Fisheries Act and said will pay a penalty of C$60 million.
Teck Coal, a subsidiary of Teck Resources, resolved the charges relating to 2012 discharges of selenium and calcite to a mine settling pond and Fording River from its steelmaking coal operations in the Elk Valley region of British Columbia.
“We sincerely apologize and take responsibility for the impacts of these discharges,” Chief Executive Officer Don Lindsay said.
Lindsay also said the company plans to further invest up to C$655 million over the next four years alone on work to protect the watershed.