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Australia's Resourcehouse signs huge coal deal with China Sydney (AFP) Feb 6, 2010 
Australian miner Resourcehouse said Saturday it had signed a 60-billion-US-dollar coal deal with energy-hungry China, calling it the country's "biggest-ever export contract".
Resourcehouse chairman Clive Palmer said the company had negotiated a 20-year agreement to supply China Power International Development (CPI) with 30 million tonnes of coal a year from a proposed mine in central Queensl ... read moreTop officials charged in fatal China mine accident: report 
Beijing (AFP) Jan 21, 2010A vice-mayor and a deputy police chief in northern China have been charged with taking bribes in relation to an industrial accident that killed 277 people, state press said Thursday. Three other top officials in Linfen city, Shanxi province, have been charged with dereliction of duty and accepting bribes to turn a blind eye to illegal practices at the Xinta Mining Company, Xinhua news agency ... more
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EU ministers call for common electric car strategy
US warns China against 'stillborn' climate deal Eastern US braces for more snow misery Snowbound US government freezes up on hot issues Homes evacuated as Los Angeles braces for storm Eastern US braces for fresh snow blitz Swift help urged for Haiti's crucial weather forecasters Amnesty demands halt to Vedanta's India mine plans Two dead as storms, floods hit Turkey's south: report China says it has 6,000 captive tigers 
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China says coal mine deaths fall in 2009
Beijing (AFP) Jan 20, 2010The number of workers who died in China's notoriously dangerous coal mines dropped in 2009 because of improved safety measures, state media said Wednesday. A total of 2,631 miners -- about seven a day -- were killed last year, down by 338 from 2008, Xinhua news agency said, citing the State Administration of Coal Mine Safety. The number of mining accidents also fell by 584 to 1,616, it ... more Moratorium Called On Issuance Of Mountaintop Mining Permits 
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 13, 2010Based on a comprehensive analysis of the latest scientific findings and new data, a group of the nation's leading environmental scientists are calling on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S Army Corps of Engineers to stay all new mountaintop mining permits. In the latest edition of the journal Science, they argue that peer-reviewed research unequivocally documents irrevers ... more Three Chinese arrested over India chimney collapse 
Raipur, India (AFP) Jan 11, 2010Indian police on Monday arrested three Chinese employees over the collapse of an industrial chimney that killed 40 workers. The men were employees of China's Shandong Electric Power Construction, which was contracted to build the 178-metre (584-feet) power station chimney in central Chhattisgarh state, police said. The two engineers and a project manager have been charged with culpable h ... more 18 China miners killed in fire, 12 missing: govt
Beijing (AFP) Jan 6, 2010A fire in a coal mine in central China has killed 18 miners, authorities said Wednesday, as rescuers searched for 12 others still missing. The accident occurred on Tuesday at the Lisheng mine in the city of Xiangtan in Hunan province, the local government said in a statement on its website. Nine bodies were recovered late Tuesday, and the rest on Wednesday. The government had earlier ... more |
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23 arrested in Australia climate protest: activists
Sydney (AFP) Dec 20, 2009Dozens of protesters shut down the railway line leading to Australia's biggest coal export facility on Sunday, in protest over what they said was the failure of global climate change talks in Copenhagen. Some 40 activists with the environmental group Rising Tide Newcastle stopped a coal train and chained themselves to it and the rail tracks to effectively close the line at Newcastle north of ... more 16 missing in China mine accident: government 
Beijing (AFP) Nov 29, 2009A flood at a coal mine in northeast China has trapped 16 workers, the government said Saturday, in the latest accident to strike China's notoriously dangerous mining sector. One miner was rescued and 16 remained missing after the accident on Friday at the Zhonghe coal mine near Meihekou city, Jilin province, the State Administration of Work Safety said on its website. Rescue efforts were ... more Danger all in a day's work for China mine rescuers 
Hegang, China (AFP) Nov 25, 2009Zhang Fucheng has lost count of how many hellish scenes he has plunged into in 35 years as a China mine rescue worker, but he is certain of one thing -- this weekend's deadly blast was the worst. "This is the most serious I have encountered," the 56-year-old Zhang said, lighting a cigarette as he took a rare break in an office of the Xinxing coal mine in the city of Hegang in northeastern ... more Danger all in a day's work for China mine rescuers
Hegang, China (AFP) Nov 25, 2009Zhang Fucheng has lost count of how many hellish scenes he has plunged into in 35 years as a China mine rescue worker, but he is certain of one thing -- this weekend's deadly blast was the worst. "This is the most serious I have encountered," the 56-year-old Zhang said, lighting a cigarette as he took a rare break in an office of the Xinxing coal mine in the city of Hegang in northeastern ... more |
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