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New issue of the Stockholm Water Front tackles water and energy nexus
In this issue of the Stockholm Water Front we explore one important aspect intertwining with food and water in a broader nexus: Energy. Examples of the so-called “nexus” integrating those three aspects of human and planetary development and well-being are reported on from the Bonn 2011 meeting in preparation of Rio+20, as well as from China's coal mines, and Durban, the South African ...
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Lawsuits Seek to Stop Work at Mines in 3 States
Coal industry representatives say lawsuits against mines in three Western states could have consequences across the U.S. as environmentalists seek changes in how mining is approved on federally owned reserves. In civil cases unfolding in Colorado, New Mexico and Montana, the group WildEarth Guardians asserts coal companies benefited from lax oversight by federal regulators. The group says the ...
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New rule to protect streams near coal mines
The Obama administration proposed new regulations Thursday designed to reduce the environmental impact of coal mining on the nation's streams, a long-anticipated move that met quick resistance from Republicans, even as the administration projected only modest job losses in coal country. Current federal regulations designed to protect streams near coal mines date back to 1983. The proposed rule ...
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Transitional assistance for waste coal mine gas under the renewable energy target
Minister for Climate Change and Water, Senator Penny Wong, announced an amendment that will see the Renewable Energy Target (RET) 'topped up' to allow existing waste coal mine gas projects to generate Renewable Energy Certificates. The Government is conscious that cessation of the New South Wales Greenhouse Gas Reduction Scheme and the transition to the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme may ...
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New Coal Mine Methane Venting Technology Tested
WASHINGTON, DC (ENS) - A demonstration project begun Friday at an abandoned West Virginia coal mine will showcase a technology that can convert the greenhouse gas methane into a source of clean energy. The thermal oxidation system destroys methane in ventilation air by heating the gas to over 1800 degrees Fahrenheit and converting it to carbon dioxide and water. The heat produced in this ...
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Rio Tinto to sell American division of packaging firm
Rio Tinto has agreed to sell its Alcan Packaging Food Americas division to flexible packaging company Bemis for $1.2 billion. The completion of the sale, of which $200 million may be in the form of shares in the Bemis Company, remains subject to closing conditions. Rio Tinto chief financial officer Guy Elliott said: “The sale of the Food Americas division is the first significant step in ...
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Poland to support, develop industrial, coal mining region
Poland's government, at its first ever session outside Warsaw, approved a multi-billion-euro plan on Tuesday to stimulate the coal-mining region of Silesia's industry and job market. Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz convened the weekly Cabinet session in the southern city of Katowice to stress her government's concern for the key industrial region. Its people complain of being laid off and neglected as ...
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UK opens first coal mine in decades
The first deep mine colliery in over 30 years is set to be opened in West Cumbria in the near future, after the government declined to intervene over the plans and delegated responsibility to the local council. The project had been greenlighted by local authorities in March of this year, but a backlash among environmentalists had caused the government to consider blocking its development. ...
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U Channel Roll Forming Machine For Coal Mine
Technical requirements of u channel steel rolling machine for coal mine: The newly designed scaffold shall be manufactured in accordance with the drawings and technical documents approved by the prescribed procedure. The chemical composition and mechanical properties of u-shaped steel should comply with GB3414. The size, shape, weight and allowable deviation of U shape steel are carried out in ...
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Innio to supply mine in china with 8 gas-engine generators
INNIO will supply Chongqing Yuxin Energy’s Chongqing Songzao Coal Mine plant, owned by Chongqing Energy Investment Group (CQEIG), with eight of its 3.35 MW Jenbacher J620 gas engines for an expansion of the coal mine methane (CMM) gas-fuelled power plant. The project, located approximately 150 km from Chongqing City, is supporting the country’s efforts to reduce the environmental ...
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MEDIA ADVISORY: Checkered Flags Ready as Colorado Middle School Students Head to the Racetrack Saturday
On Saturday, May 14, nearly 200 middle school students from around Colorado will participate in the Junior Solar Sprint and Lithium Ion Battery car competitions from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Dakota Ridge High School, 13399 W. Coal Mine Ave., Littleton. Sponsored by the Energy Department's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the competitions give students the opportunity to ...
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First-of-kind coal mine methane mitigation system in America now fully operational
Biothermica has announced that its pioneering VAMOX™ coal mine methane (CMM) abatement system is fully operational at Jim Walter Resources’ mine no. 4 in Brookwood, Alabama. For the first time in America, ventilation air methane (VAM) is being destroyed at an active coal mine, all the while generating bankable carbon credits. Approved by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety & Health ...
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Clarke Energy at the African Mining Indaba
Clarke Energy is attending the African Mining Indaba from 8th - 11th February 2016 in Cape Town, and will be participating in the UK Pavilion. Clarke Energy will be there to discuss energy efficient and cost effective technologies for the power generation in mines. These include gas to power technology utilising GE's Jenbacher gas engine portfolio. Using gas as a fuel source can deliver ...
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RTO cleans methane from coal mining
Using a Regenerative Thermal Oxidizer to convert methane into carbon dioxide may prove a deterrent to Global Warming. Everybody's talking about clean coal. Vanishing are the images of smog-filled towns and blackened valleys of soot that made coal a byword for dirty fuel. In fact, like it or not, coal still produces about half of U.S.-produced electricity and about a quarter of the electricity ...
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African Mining Indaba 2015
Clarke Energy is participating in the African Mining Indaba 2015 in Cape Town, South Africa. The event runs from the 9-12th of February 2015 and is the leading exhibition focusing on the mining sector in Africa. Clarke Energy will be joining the UK Pavilion as a Silver Sponsor and will be presenting energy efficient and cost effective technologies for the power generation in mines. These include ...
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Temporary rebound expected for coal mining in 2014
The U.S. coal mining industry will see a modest and short-lived rebound in 2014, driven by more production in Western states after two successive years of declines, according to a government forecast released Tuesday. The Energy Information Administration projected a 36 million ton increase in coal production for the year, to 1.04 billion tons. That's up 3.6 percent from 2013 figures. Low ...
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Ukraine’s coal mine industry continues regional leadership to reduce emissions
The JSC Coal Company Krasnoarmeiskaya Zapadnaya is the latest Ukraine company to modernize its coal mining operations by signing a framework agreement with GE Energy. Under the agreement, JSC plans to install up to 20 of GE’s ecomaginationTM-certified Jenbacher coal mine gas-fueled cogeneration units. The engines will use the active mine‘s own methane gas to generate about 129 MW in total power ...
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Anglo American Signs Pyrolysis Deal
Mining giant Anglo American partners for pyrolysis of its rubber waste Mining conglomerate Anglo American has announced that it is to address the issue of waste OTR tyres and conveyor belting in its mines. The feedstock come from Anglo American’s five metallurgical coal mines in central Queensland, and be distributed to Novum Energy Australia, which will convert the rubber into heavy and ...
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House Appropriations Committee Releases FY2017 Labor-HHS-Education Spending Bill
This week, the House Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Subcommittee approved by voice vote its fiscal year (FY) 2017 spending bill. The bill totals $161.6 billion in discretionary spending, $569 million below the FY2016 enacted level and $2.8 billion below the President’s budget request. The bill provides the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Employment Training Administration (ETA) ...
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Making coal mining safer, more efficient and greener
CSIRO’s efforts to help the Australian coal industry improve safety and efficiency and reduce its environmental impact received a boost this week with the allocation of more than A$3 million in funding from the Australian Coal Association Research Program (ACARP).The funding package will enable CSIRO Exploration & Mining to undertake nine important research projects.“We are delighted to work ...
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