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Tuesday, September 29, 2015 United Kingdom energy firm Drax pulls out of carbon-capture project » The company will complete a study into the feasibility and development of technology that help to decrease large amounts o...
Tuesday, September 29, 2015 Canada sets carbon emissions reduction target of 30% by 2030 » Canada has announced it will commit to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 30 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030, an...
Tuesday, September 29, 2015 Alberta NDP will double carbon levy by 2017 » Alberta is asking industry to cut emissions and pay more for pumping greenhouse gases into the air. http://www.c...
Tuesday, September 29, 2015 Unreleased government-funded report suggests $50 carbon price in Alberta » Jacking up Alberta’s carbon tax is the best way to reduce the province’s greenhouse gas emissions from power generation, s...
Tuesday, September 29, 2015 Misplaced emphasis on coal » Environment Ministry endorsement has been withheld on plans to build three large coal-fired power plants in succession due...
Tuesday, September 29, 2015 India needs higher auto fuel emission standards: Report » India needs to follow the course taken by developed countries like the US and expedite the upgradation to higher auto fuel...
Tuesday, September 29, 2015 Alcoa to separate into two separate public companies by the end of 2016 » Alcoa will split into two independent companies, separating its bauxite, aluminum and casting operations from its engineer...
Tuesday, September 29, 2015 Alcoa's gradual transformation from aluminum to wider, deeper business » As Alcoa Inc. Chairman and CEO Klaus Kleinfeld alluded to in the company's surprise announcement it will split into two in...
Tuesday, September 29, 2015 (0 Comments - view/add) “Strictest Ever" Environment Protection Law Makes Green Operations, Energy Conservation and Aluminum » On January 1, 2015, the new Environment Protection Law, deemed the “strictest ever”, officially came into force. Wit...
Wednesday, September 23, 2015 Opinion: Kitimat at leading edge of aluminium industry » As the chief executive for one of the world’s leading producers of aluminium, I am often asked why Rio Tinto would make su...
Wednesday, September 23, 2015 Smelter’s power struggles set to continue » General manager Joe Rea fears for the future of the smelter as the company continues to negotiate a new electricity supply...
Wednesday, September 23, 2015 Husky Energy's Ohio refinery hampered by string of incidents » Husky Energy Inc said on Tuesday that its 155,000 barrel-per-day refinery in Lima, Ohio, was running at 70 percent to 80 p...
Wednesday, September 23, 2015 Electric contract impasse threatens to idle South Carolina smelter » Negotiations between Century Aluminum and Santee Cooper over a new electric power contract appear to be near a breaking po...
Monday, September 21, 2015 China's push for cleaner energy could push petcoke higher » Chinese president Xi Jinping signed into law a raft of detailed measures designed to reduce the air pollution that is chok...
Monday, September 21, 2015 China's rising output, price rout deepen aluminium industry gloom » Sinking aluminium prices and a ballooning surplus of the metal have deepened the industry's worst crisis in years, intensi...
Monday, September 21, 2015 Alcoa: The Crash Is an Opportunity » Alcoa (AA) shares have fallen rapidly in 2015 as the company has been hurt as a result of weak aluminum prices due to end-...
Monday, September 21, 2015 Oakland City Council Moves to Block Coal at New Port Terminal » City officials may be able to block the export of coal and other fossil fuels from a new shipping terminal being built on...
Thursday, September 17, 2015 • AG Madigan settles with petcoke operator over pollution violations » Attorney General Lisa Madigan says a Chicago company that handles petroleum coke will pay a $35,000 fine to settle a lawsu...
Thursday, September 17, 2015 US shale crude cash markets offer ray of hope amid global gloom » NEW YORK – In shale strongholds of North Dakota and Texas, physical crude grades are trading at the highest premiums to fu...
Thursday, September 17, 2015 Essar Oil to shut Vadinar refinery for maintenance » Essar Oil will this week shut its 4,05,000 barrel-per-day Vadinar refinery in Gujarat for about four weeks to carry out ma...
Thursday, September 17, 2015 Islands' territorial government sues Hess Corp. over alleged contractual violations, fraud » The U.S. Virgin Islands on Monday sued American oil company Hess Corp. for more than $1 billion, alleging that the firm ab...
Thursday, September 17, 2015 Crude Oil Inventories Were Up in the Week Ended September 4 » According to data released on September 10, US crude oil inventories rose 0.6% in the week ended September 4 compared to t...
Thursday, September 17, 2015 WTI and Brent Crude Oil Prices Fell Last Week » The NYMEX (New York Mercantile Exchange) near-month WTI (West Texas Intermediate) crude oil futures prices fell 3.1% in th...
Thursday, September 17, 2015 US Virgin Islands Hovensa refinery to reopen as storage facility » The new buyer of the Hovensa refinery intends to scrap plans to operate the complex as a refinery, instead rebooting the t...
Thursday, September 17, 2015 Attorney General Madigan Announces Settlement with KCBX for Petcoke Pollution Violations » September 15, 2015. Attorney General Lisa Madigan today announced a settlement with KCBX Terminals Company (KCBX) for alle...
Thursday, September 17, 2015 South Korea aluminum: Falls $7.50/mt on week to $90-$100/mt on selloff » Platts assessed the South Korean primary aluminum premium spot market at $90-$100/mt plus LME cash, CIF Busan, Wednesday,...
Thursday, September 17, 2015 European oil refiners' good times are not over yet » A rare run of strong European refining profits will extend to the end of the year and beyond due to extensive plant mainte...
Thursday, September 17, 2015 CHS now sole owner of McPherson refinery » CHS, a leading energy, grains and foods company and the nation's leading farmer-owned cooperative, said it has completed i...
Thursday, September 17, 2015 Health Effects to be considered for Rio Tinto Smelter Expansion » The Environmental Appeal Board has been ordered to take another look at Rio Tinto's plan to increase sulphur dioxide emiss...
Thursday, September 17, 2015 NALCO relents; will not shift smelter out of Odisha » After threatening to pull its proposed Rs 30, 000 crore project for setting up an aluminium smelter and a power plant at D...
Thursday, September 17, 2015 Billionaire Agarwal to Shut `Unviable' Unit Amid Aluminum Slump » Vedanta Ltd., India’s biggest aluminum producer backed by billionaire Anil Agarwal, plans to close a unit as a slump in me...
Thursday, September 17, 2015 GrafTech agrees to be acquired by Brookfield in $695.3 million deal » GrafTech International Ltd. (NYSE: GTI), the maker of graphite electrodes and other carbon-based products that has faced s...
Wednesday, September 9, 2015 Century Announces the Curtailment of One Potline at Hawesville, KY Smelter » Century Aluminum of Kentucky, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Century Aluminum Company (NASDAQ: CENX), today announced the or...
Tuesday, September 8, 2015 Total limits Texas refinery operations after worker dies in bulldozer accident » Total is running operations at about 50% at its 225,500-bpd refinery in Port Arthur, Texas, after a fatal accident involvi...
Tuesday, September 8, 2015 Goa Carbon reports 16,353.400 MT of Calcined Petroleum Coke production for August » Goa Carbon has reported production of 16,353.400 MT (million tonnes) of Calcined Petroleum Coke for the month of August 20...
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