Coal
Leave coal, oil in ground for climate's sake: study
The Middle East must leave 40 percent of its oil reserves in the ground, and China, the US and Russia most of their coal if global warming is to be curbed, researchers said Jan. 7.
Disaster-struck Soma mine company sold stones instead of coal to state
The Soma Coal Mine Company, which owned the mine in the Aegean district of Soma where 301 miners were killed last year, has sold more than 750,000 tons of stone to the state instead of coal, according to reports from the Turkish Court of Accounts (TCA).
Grcic: Serbia will have enough coal this winter
BELGRADE - Serbia will have enough coal from the Kolubara open pit mines this winter, and the coal mining process could be made more difficult by heavy snow and low temperatures, but it will not be jeopardized, Kolubara Director Milorad Grcic told Tanjug.
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Ministry gives license to extract 1.8 billion tons of lignite coal in Central Anatolia
As the wounds of the recent coal mine accident that killed 18 workers in the Central Anatolian heartland of Karaman are still fresh, the Energy Ministry has given licenses for three new mines in the same area, which is estimated to have a lignite coal reserve of 1.83 billion tons.
‘Natural gas’ lobby behind dismissal of coal plant on olive groove, head of firm claims
The head of a Turkish business group that cut down thousands of olive trees in western Turkey to build a power plant before the gambit was foiled by the judiciary has accused the ânatural gas lobbyâ of annulling the project.
Antic, Czech minister discuss Stavalj, South Stream
BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Mining and Energy Aleksandar Antic said on Tuesday that the official decision on the Stavalj project - which includes constructing a new coal-fired power plant near Sjenica and expanding an existing mine - should be made in March 2015.
Coal mining complex workers treated for poisoning
Coal mining complex workers treated for poisoning
BELGRADE -- Nine workers of the Kolubara mining basin have been injured when coal dust caught on fire in Field D of the strip mine southwest of Belgrade.
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Western Turkish coal plant’s privatization completed for $1 billion despite workers' opposition
Turkeyâs Privatization Authority has announced that it has finalized the privatization process of a state-run coal plant in YataÄan in the Aegean province of MuÄla, with a power generation capacity of 630 MW.
43,000 trees set to be felled near Black Sea port for new coal plant
Turkey is bracing for more government-backed pillaging of the natural environment for fossil fuels and cement, with a new coal plant project in the western Black Sea province of Bartın expected to lead to the destruction of a huge 183,000-hectare forested area.
Turkish court suspends energy project hours after trees wiped out
Turkey's Council of State suspended Nov. 7 a controversial project to build a coal plant in a western town, hours after thousands of trees in the area were rooted out by the energy firm amid locals' resistance.