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Thursday, April 30, 2015 USW to vote on Century Aluminum's final offer at Kentucky smelter » United Steelworkers Local 9423: * Unionized workers at Century Aluminum's 244,000-tonne-per-year Hawesville smelter to vot...
Thursday, April 30, 2015 Indian Oil commissions Paradip refinery » ndian Oil Corp. Ltd. (IOC) has started the process of commissioning its long-delayed 15 million-tonne/year, full-conversio...
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 How the Fukushima Disaster Crippled Japan's Climate Plans » Japan used to have a pretty good reputation on climate change. Thanks to its robust industrial economy, it has the fourth-...
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 China Government Lowers Coal-fired Power Rates as Economy Slow » China appears to be weakening its war against pollution with a decision to cut costs for consumers of coal-firedpower.&nbs...
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 Coal a major contributor to the UK power mix » The latest GB Electricity Market Summary by energy data analyst EnAppSys, indicates Britain’s 1Q15 fuel mix was powered by...
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 Labour Party threat to UK’s carbon price support emerges » The UK’s Labour Party is the most likely major political party to banish the country’s controversial carbon tax on power g...
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 EPA rules for coal-fired power plants » West Virginia and 14 other coal-reliant states gave oral arguments before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Co...
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 Crude oil price at 4-month high » Brent oil prices jumped this week to the highest level so far this year, as the latest Saudi-led air strikes on Yemen stok...
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 Cement demand to pick up by second half fiscal 2016 » UltraTech Cement, an Aditya Birla-group company, is in the middle of an expansion driver with the company aiming to become...
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 Appeal of Rio Tinto Alcan Smelter Pollution Begins Monday » Two Kitimat residents' appeal of a BC government permit allowing Rio Tinto Alcan to dramatically increase pollution from i...
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 Century, USW at stalemate in labor talks at Kentucky aluminum smelter » Century Aluminum rejected a proposal from unionized workers for a new labor deal at its Hawesville, Kentucky, smelter over...
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 Holcim and Lafarge receive European Commission’s approval for CRH to buy assets » CRH has been approved by the European Commission as a purchaser of assets in the European Union from Lafarge and Holcim. C...
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 Cemex up on US, Mexico and Asia » Cemex’s sales for the first quarter of the year came to US$ 3.4 billion, a +7% increase on a like-for-like basis with the...
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 Europe PMI Falls in April as Chinese Demand Slows Down » Previously, we analyzed the indicators of the US economy. In this part, we’ll analyze recent indicators of the European ec...
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 Must-Know: China’s Flash PMI Falls below 50 in April » China’s flash PMI. http://marketrealist.com/2015/04/must-know-chinas-flash-pmi-falls-50-april/
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 Global Supply to Rise as China Eases Aluminum Export Taxes » China eases aluminum export taxes . http ://marketrealist.com/2015/04/global-supply-rise-china-eases-aluminum-export-ta...
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 Alcoa Sees Strong End User Demand in 1Q15 » Alcoa (AA), the leading aluminum company in North America, has lost almost one sixth of its market capitalization so far i...
Wednesday, April 22, 2015 Will China’s New Water Pollution Guidelines be Enough to Shut Down Small but Resilient Teapot Refine » China is in the throes of an environmental meltdown. Its major cities are shrouded in smog and pollution – who can forget...
Wednesday, April 22, 2015 USW rejects tentative deal with Century at Kentucky aluminium smelter » Unionised workers at Century Aluminium's Hawesville, Kentucky aluminium smelter voted to reject a tentative agreement on a...
Wednesday, April 22, 2015 Rusal says may idle 200,000 tonnes of aluminium capacity » Top global aluminium producer United Company Rusal said on Wednesday it was reviewing its aluminium smelting operati...
Wednesday, April 22, 2015 Prepare for power load shedding which could last 12 hours » The state of South Africa’s electricity system was in dire straits last week, with Eskom losing almost half of its availab...
Wednesday, April 22, 2015 No upgrade for RIL despite record quarterly profit » The highest ever quarterly profits that Reliance Industries posted for Jan-March 2015 last weekend have hardly changed ana...
Monday, April 20, 2015 EU to file antitrust charges against Gazprom » The European Union's competition regulator plans to file formal antitrust charges against Russia's state-owned gas company...
Monday, April 20, 2015 Puli rally demands PM2.5 action » Hundreds of residents of Nantou County’s Puli Township (埔里) yesterday staged a demonstration to raise awareness about elev...
Monday, April 20, 2015 The future of super ships » When the 366-metre-long container ship MV COSCO Fortune docked at Port of Prince Rupert’s Fairview Terminal last July, it...
Monday, April 20, 2015 U.S. ports prepare for Panama Canal expansion » Giant backhoes claw into the ground, as helmeted workers position rebar atop of concrete pillars 100 feet tall. Cranes, tr...
Monday, April 20, 2015 Tiwai Point aluminium smelter 'squarely in the black': analyst » Two years after receiving a $30 million handout from taxpayers the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter is "squarely in the black...
Monday, April 20, 2015 Middle Eastern Aluminum Leads the World, Outside China, in Growth » Maybe because of Alcoa Inc.’s involvement in the Maadan smelter in Saudi Arabia, recent attention on the Middle East has c...
Friday, April 17, 2015 Even the benevolent cannot have it both ways » Leaders from six cities and counties in Central and Southern Taiwan pledged on Tuesday to ban the burning of petroleum cok...
Friday, April 17, 2015 SA's future shrouded in darkness » The state of South Africa’s electricity system was in dire straits this week, with Eskom losing almost half of its availab...
Friday, April 17, 2015 Port of Longview working on crude oil refinery proposal » The Port of Longview says it's working with an energy company on a proposal for a new crude oil refinery, the first such f...
Friday, April 17, 2015 Brent crude oil hits 2015 high as US production slows, above USD 63 » Brent crude prices hit 2015 highs above US $63 per barrel on Thursday after a rally of more than 5 per cent the previous s...
Friday, April 17, 2015 Saudi Arabia adds half a Bakken to global crude oil market in a month » Saudi Arabia increased crude oil production by 658,800 barrels a day in March to an average of 10.294 million a day, accor...
Friday, April 17, 2015 Century, union reach tentative labor deal at Hawesville smelter » Century Aluminum Co and unionized workers at its Hawesville, Kentucky aluminum smelter reached a tentative agreement on a...
Friday, April 17, 2015 IEA points to divergent refining trends » The IEA says divergent trends have emerged in the world refining industry, with runs rising sharply in OECD regions but su...
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