NUR-SULTAN. KAZINFORM Coal-extracting companies of Kazakhstan produced 18.3mn tonnes of coal in January-February 2020, Kazinform reports. 10.4mn tonnes of coal were shipped to energy-producing companies, and industrial enterprises received 936,800 tonnes. 1.4mn tonnes were shipped for public and utility needs. 4.6mn tonnes will be exported. According to the Ministry of Industry and Infrastructure Development, The ... 
Kazakhstan to produce 120mn tonnes of coal in 2020
Anastasia Bogdanova | March 26, 2020 NUR-SULTAN. KAZINFORM Coal-extracting companies of Kazakhstan produced 18.3mn tonnes of coal in January-February 2020, Kazinform reports. 10.4mn tonnes of coal were shipped to energy-producing companies, and industrial enterprises received 936,800 tonnes. 1.4mn tonnes were shipped for public and utility needs. 4.6mn tonnes will be exported. According to the Ministry of Industry and Infrastructure Development, The ... 
Some residents in Northumberland are against plans to open a new site near Druridge Bay, which has a rich history of coal mining. Environmentalists and scientists have told Sky News that the government is failing to show leadership over the opening of new coal mines. Coal is one of the most carbon intensive fossil fuels ... 
Miners in Poland launched a blockade of a railway terminal in the country’s main coal-mining region on February 18 to protest an increase in Russian coal imports. The labor action involving several hundred miners at the Slawkow terminal in Silesia follows an increase in imports of Russian coal to Poland in recent years while stockpiles ... 
By Wojciech Kosc in Warsaw February 18, 2020 Poland’s share in the EU’s just transition project – a plan to help the bloc end the use of coal as a source of energy – should be cut in half to €1bn unless Warsaw signs up to the 2050 climate neutrality goal, President of the European Council Charles ... 
By Wojciech Kosc in Warsaw February 17, 2020 Mining unions at Poland’s biggest hard coal miner Polska Grupa Gornicza (PGG) went on a two-hour warning strike on February 17, demanding the Law and Justice (PiS) government address the sector’s mounting problems. The Polish hard coal mining sector is on the verge of a crisis, as a ... 
Kazakhstan, at least on the surface, seems to have a strong political will to attract investments in renewable energy projects as demonstrated by its official general policy. The government of Kazakhstan, for instance, made an official commitment to increase the share of renewable energy in domestic electricity generation from the current 2% in 2019 to ... 
WARSAW (Reuters) – Polish state-run power producers will halt coal imports, State Assets Minister Jacek Sasin said on Tuesday, after protests by mining trade unions over foreign supplies they say are a threat to the domestic industry. Poland generates most of its electricity from coal, but domestic output has fallen because of cost-cutting and geological ... 
THE director of Banks Mining was on the money in his piece (Echo, Feb 3) where he described the carbon hypocrisy that is rife in the UK today. It is farcical that anti-coal campaigners are actively opposing coal mining in the North-East, which has a far less carbon footprint than the alternative of hauling it ... 
Despite commitments to cut CO2 emissions and limit global warming between 1.5-2 °C under the Paris Agreement, fossil fuel emissions show little sign of abating. According to new estimates from a group of scientists in 2019, global emissions will grow 0.6 percent year-on-year and reach 36.8 billion t of CO2, or 36.8 Gt carbon. “Fossil CO2 emissions ... 
One of the greatest moral dilemmas that has been creeping into the everyday activities of specialists working with coal, oil and in some cases even gas (despite its being perceived a natural bridge to a low-carbon future) could be phrased in the following way: how do you stop producing fossil fuels when you still have ... 
FILE — A coal-fired power plant in Mannheim, Germany, Oct. 28, 2018. Germany announced on Jan. 16, 2020 that it would spend $44.5 billion to quit coal but not for another 18 years, by 2038. (Gordon Welters/The New York Times) Germany announced it would spend $44.5 billion to quit coal — but not for another ... 
Russian steel and coal producer Mechel has decided not to buy back a stake in its biggest asset, the Elga coal mine in Russia’s far east, from its creditor Gazprombank, which has held the stake since 2016, said on Tuesday. Mechel is engaged in talks with its creditors about restructuring $6-billion in loans. It sold ...