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  • Talen, PJM Reach Agreement to Keep 2 GW of Coal, Oil Generation Online for Reliability in Maryland

    02/01/2025 11:54:36 AM PST · by ProtectOurFreedom · 9 replies
    Power Magazine ^ | Sonal Patel | Sona Patel
    Talen Energy has reached an agreement with PJM Interconnection, the Maryland Public Service Commission, Maryland electric utilities, consumer representatives, and the Sierra Club to extend operations at its 1.3-GW coal-fired Brandon Shores power plant and 774-MW oil-fired H.A. Wagner units until May 31, 2029, under a reliability-must-run (RMR) contract. If approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the settlement will allow Talen to run the plants well beyond their May 2025 retirement dates and provide the independent power producer with fixed payments of $312/MW per day for Brandon Shores and $137/MW per day for Wagner. The figures include performance...
  • John Kerry AMBUSHED by entire Rebel News team in Davos ( 5 min VIDEO - He's sponsored by coal)

    01/23/2025 7:04:42 PM PST · by bitt · 24 replies
    https://x.com/OzraeliAvi/status/1882508600397967669? 5 min
  • ‘King Coal Ain’t Dead Yet’: Energy ‘Experts’ Proven Wrong Again As Chinese, Indian Coal Use Continues To Skyrocket

    12/19/2024 5:19:47 AM PST · by george76 · 31 replies
    Daily Caller News Foundation ^ | December 18, 2024 | Owen Klinsky
    Driven by surging electricity demand in China and India, global coal use is set to hit an all-time high in 2024, disproving past predictions from energy “experts.” The International Energy Agency (IEA) — a Paris-based intergovernmental organization that provides energy policy recommendations — said in its Coal 2020 report that “coal demand is expected to flatten” and that “it is likely that global coal demand peaked in 2013 at just over 8Bt [billion tons].” Now, however, a Wednesday report from the agency predicts coal demand will reach a new record of nearly 8.8 billion tons in 2024, as increased coal...
  • Stop The ‘Green Hallucinationists’ Plan to Close All 200 Coal Power Plants.

    12/10/2024 4:42:00 AM PST · by Red Badger · 29 replies
    Watts Up With That? ^ | December 09, 2024 | Ronald Stein, George Harris
    China is Building Coal-Fired Power Plants at an Alarming Rate of two new coal plants every week! America continues to subsidize the development of occasionally generated electricity from weather dependent wind turbines and solar panels, to replace coal power plants, with the expectation that America, with about 4% of the world’s population, can drastically impact the world’s emissions occurring from the other 96% people on this planet. Coal is the world’s most abundant and reliable energy source. The United States has the world’s largest coal reserves. Of the 15 major coal producing States, Montana has the largest coal reserve with...
  • Biden Tosses a Middle Finger Salute to the Coal Industry on His Way Out the Door

    12/03/2024 1:39:48 PM PST · by The_Media_never_lie · 44 replies
    P J Media ^ | 12/3/24 | Rick Moran
    Joe Biden doesn't like coal. I mean, he really, really doesn't like it. What's more, coal is mainly located in red states and employs a lot of conservative voters. Advertisement Biden decided to deliver a parting shot to coal-producing states and those whose livelihoods depend on mining. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) recently approved an amendment to the Resource Management Plan (RMP) that would ban new coal leases in Wyoming's Powder River Basin and make "48.12 billion short tons of coal unavailable for leasing consideration in order to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as a proxy for climate change,"...
  • Texas AG Paxton files lawsuit alleging BlackRock and other firms colluded to hurt coal industry

    11/30/2024 4:05:31 PM PST · by george76 · 20 replies
    Just the News ^ | November 30, 2024 | Kevin Killough
    According to the lawsuit, the three asset managers acquired substantial stockholdings in coal companies, and then used their influence to pressure the companies to adopt ESG goals and reduce output. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, along with 10 other state attorney generals, have filed a lawsuit against BlackRock, State Street Corporation, and Vanguard Group, three of the largest institutional investors in the world. The lawsuit filed Tuesday alleges the firms conspired to artificially constrict the market for coal through anti-trade practices. “Texas will not tolerate the illegal weaponization of the financial industry in service of a destructive, politicized ‘environmental’ agenda....
  • Biden Admin Bans Future Coal Leasing In Montana And Wyoming On Thanksgiving Eve

    11/30/2024 8:03:37 AM PST · by bitt · 64 replies
    https://www.msn.com ^ | 11/30/2024 | Nick Pope
    The Biden administration moved on Thanksgiving eve to bar future coal leasing in the Powder River Basin, one of America’s most coal-rich regions, according to multiple reports. The Powder River Basin, a region that spans parts of Montana and Wyoming, accounted for about 43% of U.S. coal in 2019, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. The administration made its move to formally end coal leasing in the area and roll back previous approvals for development plans on Wednesday as Americans prepared to enjoy the Thanksgiving holiday, according to E&E News. “The decision is to make no federal coal available...
  • BLM Outlaws Coal In Powder River Basin; Gordon Says Prepare For A Fight

    11/28/2024 6:09:23 AM PST · by CFW · 33 replies
    Cowboy State Daily ^ | 11/28/24 | Renée Jean
    The Bureau of Land Management has made it official Tuesday — coal leasing will end in the Powder River Basin by 2041. The move follows a court order in a federal lawsuit, Western Organization of Resource Councils et al. v. BLM. The judge on the case directed the BLM to redo its environmental analysis, and include both no-leasing and a limited coal leasing alternatives. As a result of that analysis, the BLM said it has determined that “additional leasing of BLM-administered coal is not necessary, based on the current analysis in the Final Supplemental EIS. The analysis indicates that operating...
  • Biden blocks new mining at major Western coal hub

    11/27/2024 5:36:17 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 71 replies
    The Hill ^ | 11/27/2024 | by Rachel Frazin and Zack Budryk
    In recent days, the Biden administration has released two decisions on the future of mining in the Powder River Basin. The basin, which includes portions of Wyoming and Montana, produces 43 percent of the nation’s coal. The administration said it would not allow new leasing to take place in the area, citing climate change impacts. Ongoing mining operations, which are expected to last through 2041, would not be affected.
  • Attor­ney Gen­er­al Ken Pax­ton Sues Black­Rock, State Street, and Van­guard for Ille­gal­ly Con­spir­ing to Manip­u­late Ener­gy Mar­kets, Dri­ving Up Costs for Consumers

    11/27/2024 3:24:51 PM PST · by george76 · 38 replies
    OAG - Texas ^ | November 27, 2024 | Press Release
    Attorney General Ken Paxton sued BlackRock, State Street Corporation, and Vanguard Group, three of the largest institutional investors in the world, for conspiring to artificially constrict the market for coal through anticompetitive trade practices. Over several years, the three asset managers acquired substantial stockholdings in every significant publicly held coal producer in the United States, thereby gaining the power to control the policies of the coal companies. Using their combined influence over the coal market, the investment cartel collectively announced in 2021 their commitment to weaponize their shares to pressure the coal companies to accommodate “green energy” goals. To achieve...
  • 11 State Attorneys General, Led by Ken Paxton, Take on BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street in Groundbreaking Anti-Trust Lawsuit Over Coal Market Manipulation

    11/27/2024 10:29:08 AM PST · by DFG · 8 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | 11/27/2024 | Jim Hoft
    A groundbreaking lawsuit filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas accuses financial giants BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street of colluding to manipulate the U.S. coal market. The case, spearheaded by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and supported by 10 other state attorneys general, alleges that these firms have used their substantial ownership stakes in major coal producers to suppress competition and artificially raise energy prices. The states listed as plaintiffs are” Texas Alabama Arkansas Indiana Iowa Kansas Missouri Montana Nebraska West Virginia Wyoming According to the 108-page complaint, BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street collectively...
  • Power Demand from Data Centers Keeping Coal-Fired Plants Online

    10/18/2024 4:46:02 AM PDT · by ProtectOurFreedom · 25 replies
    Power Magazine ^ | October 16, 2024 | Darrell Proctor
    The power generation sector is looking at numerous ways to provide enough electricity to satisfy demand from data centers. Bloomberg Intelligence research shows data centers, buildings filled with servers and other computing equipment for data storage and networking that supports operations and artificial intelligence, could be responsible for as much as 17% of all U.S. electricity consumption by 2030. The U.S. Dept. of Energy has said one data center can require 50 times the electricity of a typical office building. Several technology groups are looking at nuclear power, including the use of small modular reactors, to meet their electricity needs....
  • End of an era as Britain’s last coal-fired power plant shuts down

    09/30/2024 12:43:14 AM PDT · by RandFan · 38 replies
    The Guardian ^ | Sep 30 | Jillian Ambrose
    Britain’s only remaining coal power plant at Ratcliffe-on-Soar in Nottinghamshire will generate electricity for the last time on Monday after powering the UK for 57 years. The power plant will come to the end of its life in line with the government’s world-leading policy to phase out coal power which was first signalled almost a decade ago. The closure marks the end of Britain’s 142-year history of coal power use which began when the world’s first coal-fired power station, the Holborn Viaduct power station, began generating electricity in 1882. The shutdown has been hailed by green campaigners as a major...
  • Multiple agencies responding to reports of explosion near Ray Nixon Power Plant (Colorado)

    09/05/2024 8:03:13 PM PDT · by dynachrome · 9 replies
    KRDO ^ | 9-5-24 | Tyler Dumas
    There was an incident earlier this afternoon involving a contract employee near an ash landfill, located to the south of the Ray Nixon and Front Range Power Plants. We contract with this company to maintain our heavy equipment/large trucks that move material – such as ash and coal – at the site. The Colorado Springs Fire Department will lead the investigation effort. The contractor’s employee has been airlifted to Denver for medical treatment. We cannot speak to his condition at this time. While our focus is on the health of this individual, we can report to our community that the...
  • UK High Court Revokes Permit for First Coal Mine in 30 Years

    09/16/2024 6:29:27 AM PDT · by cutty · 28 replies
    Oil price ^ | Sep 13, 2024 | Tsvetana Paraskova
    London’s High Court on Friday quashed a planning permission for the UK’s first new coal mine in three decades, ruling that the permit was unlawful as it hadn’t considered the emissions from burning the fuel. Earlier this year, climate campaigners, including Friends of the Earth, challenged the approval of the coal mining project. The UK’s previous Conservative government approved in December 2022 the Woodhouse Colliery project in Whitehaven, northwest England.. The project to mine metallurgical coal, the one used for steelmaking, will be required to support steelmaking.. However, the new Labour government in the UK pulled in July its support...
  • Green Fail: Germany’s Anti-Nuclear Policies Resulted in More Pollution, More Costs, Report Finds

    09/11/2024 7:30:51 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 15 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 09.11.2024 | Kurt Zindulka
    A bombshell report has found that Germany could have been more effective at reducing its carbon footprint while saving hundreds of billions of euros if it had invested in nuclear power rather than green energy projects. Leftist-run governments in Europe’s top economic powerhouse made a devastating error by transitioning away from nuclear power and focussing instead on so-called “renewable” sources of energy like wind and solar, industrial engineer Jan Emblemsvåg of the University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway has said according to German daily Welt. While nuclear energy accounted for around 30 per cent of Germany’s electricity in...
  • China's June coal output rises to six-month high on summer demand

    07/18/2024 7:12:22 AM PDT · by george76 · 8 replies
    Reuters ^ | July 14, 2024 | Colleen Howe;
    China's coal output rose to a six-month high in June, statistics bureau data showed on Monday, as mines ramped up production to meet seasonal demand ... The world's largest coal producer mined 405.38 million metric tons of the fuel last month, a 3.6% increase on the year and the highest since December ... Output will continue rising in the third quarter ... Output in the January-June period was 2.27 billion tons
  • Wind energy is on a tear and has beaten coal for two months straight: Wind has now generated 28% more electricity than coal

    07/09/2024 5:04:32 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 87 replies
    Sherwood ^ | 07/09/2024 | Rani Molla
    Wind is quietly blowing away coal, when it comes to supplying electricity in the US.In April, wind power generated more electricity than coal for the second month in a row, according to the latest available data from the Energy Information Administration. Wind briefly surpassed coal once before in April last year, but this time it’s by a much larger margin and for two consecutive months. Renewable energy production has been ticking up for years but only recently have fuels like wind and solar approached the ballpark of fossil fuels and nuclear power. Last year renewables made up 21% of electricity...
  • Biden’s war on fossil fuels hits Wyoming hard, but now the Cowboy State is fighting back

    06/23/2024 3:05:50 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 17 replies
    Just the News ^ | June 22, 2024 9:57pm | Kevin Killough
    The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has been chipping away at the oil, gas and coal industries ever since President Joe Biden took office. Wyoming is an energy state that produces half the nation’s coal, as well as part of its oil and gas output. Since the federal government owns nearly half the state’s land, virtually all oil, gas and coal operations in the Cowboy State are heavily impacted by every rule the BLM throws at fossil fuels. Although the Biden administration is waging war on fossil fuels, Wyoming is fighting back. The state, along with Utah, filed a lawsuit...
  • DOWN WITH COAL?

    05/21/2024 4:57:28 PM PDT · by Signalman · 8 replies
    Power Line ^ | 5/21/2024 | John Hinderaker
    The Biden Administration is determined to limit America’s production of fossil fuels, of which we have the largest supply in the world. This will transition us from a position of energy independence, and potentially energy dominance, into a position of subservience to the Chinese Communist Party, on which we will depend for the vast quantities of materials that are needed for wind turbines, solar panels and batteries–which we will not be allowed to mine here. If this plan isn’t outright treasonous, it is possibly the stupidest program ever carried out by a government in world history. The stated rationale for...