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• World’s Biggest Miner Prepares For The EV Boom

  Published 30 September 2017 | viewed 14,605 times

  World number one mining company BHP (ASX, NYSE: BHP) (LON:BLT) said 2017 will go down in history as the year when key changes took place in…

• Poland Aims To Fill Export Gap Using U.S. Coal

  Published 28 September 2017 | viewed 6,143 times

  Weglokoks said on Wednesday that it plans to resell the imported U.S. coal abroad, mostly to the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Germany and Austria, but…

• Total Not In A Rush To Sell Canadian Oil Sands Assets

  Published 26 September 2017 | viewed 7,947 times

  French oil giant Total SA chief executive said on Monday the company was not in a rush to join the foreign exodus from Canada’s oil sands sector.…

• Does Canada Need More Oil Sands Pipelines?

  Published 18 September 2017 | viewed 17,345 times

  The claim that building more pipelines to carry Canada’s oil sands production to ports for export will unlock significantly higher prices for bitumen is not…

• Just How Big Is The Oil Market?

  Published 17 September 2017 | viewed 48,889 times

  Big Oil The Oil Market Is Bigger Than All Metal Markets Combined Ever since the invention of the internal combustion engine, oil has been one…

• Activists Protest Kinder Morgan’s Westridge Crude Oil Terminal

  Published 31 August 2017 | viewed 7,345 times

  On a sparsely populated island off the coast of the northwestern United States, more than a hundred environmental activists gathered last weekend to practice seaborne…

• Supervolcanoes Could Drive The Electric Car Boom

  Published 17 August 2017 | viewed 10,104 times

  U.S. scientists say they have discovered a new source of lithium, a key element in the manufacturing of battery-powered electric cars and other renewable energy…

• Rio Tinto’s First-Half Profit Soars 93%, Investors Getting $3B Back

  Published 03 August 2017 | viewed 4,432 times

  Rio Tinto, the world’s second largest miner, gave its shareholders an early Christmas present Wednesday as it declared its biggest interim dividend in the company’s 144-year history,…

• Renewables Could Overtake Fossil Fuels In South Australia By 2025

  Published 30 July 2017 | viewed 11,466 times

  Declining renewables and energy storage costs will increasingly squeeze out gas-fired generation in South Australia as early as 2025, a joint research report conducted by…

• Could Clean Energy Spark A Mineral Boom?

  Published 22 July 2017 | viewed 9,163 times

  A new World Bank report released today highlights the potential impacts that the expected continuing boom in low-carbon energy technologies will have on demand for…

• Canada’s Wildfires Threaten Kinder Morgan’s Pipeline

  Published 12 July 2017 | viewed 8,370 times

  Wildfires ripping through Canada’s western province of British Columbia since the weekend have forced people to flee and companies in the mining and forestry sectors…

• Trump Takes Aim At Another Obama-Era Environment Rule

  Published 10 June 2017 | viewed 10,242 times

  The Trump administration is going after another of the Obama-era environment protection rules by ordering a review of conservation plan for the greater sage grouse,…

• Czech Republic Aims To Cash In On The Lithium Boom

  Published 29 April 2017 | viewed 9,866 times

  Demand for lithium, frequently referred to as "white petroleum," is expected to triple by 2025, as it has become an irreplaceable component of rechargeable batteries…

• Investors Confident Of A Big Upwards Move In Commodity Prices

  Published 11 March 2017 | viewed 10,340 times

  After finishing 2016 up 25 percent, commodities are getting another boost from bullish investors. Investment bank Citigroup forecasts commodity prices will increase this year on…

• Battery Wars – China Beating Tesla In The Gigafactory Race

  Published 22 February 2017 | viewed 28,366 times

  Tesla’s Gigafactory 1 has been a center of attention for people interested in the growing momentum behind green energy, electric cars, and battery production. Therefore,…

• Enbridge Buys Into North Sea Wind Park At $1.7B

  Published 18 February 2017 | viewed 11,649 times

  Enbridge (TSX, NYSE:ENB), Canada's largest pipeline company, has acquired a 49.9 percent stake in German energy firm EnBW’s offshore wind park in a $1.7 billion…

• China Aggressively Cuts Coal Supply

  Published 07 January 2017 | viewed 15,136 times

  China, the world’s largest coal consumer and producer, is not giving up on its long-term plans of reducing the share of coal in its overall…

• Statoil Turns Its Back On Canada’s Oil Sands

  Published 15 December 2016 | viewed 15,005 times

  Statoil ASA, (NYSE:STO) the Norwegian-owned oil and gas major, does not believe that it has a future in the Canadian oil sands. Citing concerns over…

• Japex To Postpone $185M Oil Sands Project In Alberta

  Published 08 November 2016 | viewed 7,679 times

  Japan Petroleum Exploration (Japex) said Tuesday it will postpone launching its Hangingstone oil sands expansion project in Alberta, Canada, until mid-2017, which will result in…

• DiCaprio’s New Film Portrays Canada’s Oil Sands As “Terryfying”

  Published 29 October 2016 | viewed 31,351 times

  Nearly six months after massive wildfires close to Canada’s oil sands forced one of the largest evacuations in the country’s history, affecting production, Leonardo DiCaprio’s…