From planting saplings to development of eco-parks, state-owned coal companies are taking various measures to reclaim abandoned mines, infusing multi-core investments, coal and mines minister said

Business Standard

State-owned coal firms taking steps to make mining sustainable

The UK’s largest opencast coal mine has ‘illegally’ extracted 300,000 tonnes of coal after being ordered to close

New Internationalist

Britain's Great Coal Scandal

Across the UK, fossil fuel companies’ broken promises have left scarred and polluted landscapes, and no one held accountable

The Guardian

As the toxic legacy of opencast mining in Wales shows, operators get the profits, and the public get the costs | George Monbiot

China Energy Investment Corporation, a state-owned electricity generator, has started up a carbon capture project at one of its thermal coal power plants which will be the biggest such carbon capture facility in Asia.

Oil Price

China Launches Asia’s Biggest Coal Carbon Capture Plant

The Indian government will not consider any proposals for new coal plants for the next five years and focus on growing its renewables sector, according to an updated national electricity plan released Wednesday evening.

India Pauses Plans To Add New Coal Plants for Five Years, Bets on Renewables, Batteries

Falling coal prices could drive Chinese imports to all-time highs, as fuel unwanted elsewhere in the world is diverted to the biggest consumer. 


Bloomberg

China’s Swoop on Cheap Global Coal Set to Drive Record Imports

Coal India Ltd., the world’s biggest miner of the fuel, raised prices for the first time in five years to offset an increase to its $5 billion wage bill.

World’s Top Coal Miner Hikes Prices as Wage Bill Surges

As scientists and activists urge rapid cuts in the use of climate-heating coal for power production around the world, new projections from India show that coal will remain its biggest source of electricity this decade, despite a fast rise in the nation’s renewable energy capacity.


Eco-Business

India has big clean energy goals – so why is it banking on coal?

Investment in global coal production and supply in 2023 is expected to increase by about 10% from the $135 billion spent in 2022, the International Energy Agency said.

Financial Tribune

Global Investment in Coal to Increase by 10 Percent: IEA

Despite big promises of a green transition and the creation of ambitious climate pledges, some countries are continuing to support the development of new coal mines

The Decline In Coal Appears To Have Been Exaggerated

The quest to develop hydrogen as a clean energy source that could curb our dependence on fossil fuels may lead to an unexpected place—coal

Tech Xplore

Storing hydrogen in coal may help power clean energy economy

Global thermal coal prices are stabilising this year in a range near $200 a tonne that is less than half of 2022’s record highs

Mining.com

Global thermal coal prices settling into $200 per tonne range after volatile 2022

Russia has a “massive” accumulation of coal on routes and depots leading to Black Sea ports due to the EU’s import ban and flagging demand from key buyer Turkey, traders said.

Montel

EU’s coal ban triggers “massive” backlog in Russia

Energy security concerns — worsened by the war in Ukraine — and policy support from rich countries are likely to help investments in clean energy outpace spending on fossil fuels, the International Energy Agency said in a report issued Thursday. But investments in coal are on course to rise by about 10% in 2023, nearly six times what the IEA has estimated they should be for the world to end its reliance on fossil fuels and achieve emissions cut goals for countering climate change, it said.

Time News

Global Investment in Clean Energy is Rising, Says IEA. But So Is Coal Investment

Despite record high prices for coal, operators claim they cannot afford to restore the site, a pretext for the licensing of the mine

Digging continues at controversial south Wales mine months after licence expires

South Africa, which is going through an energy crisis, is weighing the possibility of extending the operational lives of two of its largest coal-fueled power plants to boost energy security, sources with knowledge of the plans told Bloomberg.

South Africa Considers Countering Its Energy Crisis With Coal

Australian coal continues to make inroads among Chinese buyers, adding to pressure on domestic prices, with new shipments climbing to their highest level since Beijing halted imports in the fall of 2020.

gCaptain

China Stepping Up Imports of Australian Coal

Australian coal continues to make inroads among Chinese buyers, adding to pressure on domestic prices, with new shipments climbing to their highest level since Beijing halted imports in the fall of 2020. That ban ended at the start of this year and China’s appetite for the high-quality coal supplied by Australia is gaining momentum amid concerns that rising domestic production includes too much lower-grade fuel. 

China Buys More Australian Coal as Appetite for Quality Builds

Climate experts criticised the G7 group of advanced economies for failing to commit to tougher action on fossil fuels after Germany and Japan prevailed on the continued use of gas and coal respectively.


Financial Times

G7 disappoints on climate progress without deadlines on gas and coal use

China’s Inner Mongolia region started construction on Friday of a coal mine with an annual capacity of 8 million tonnes, media reported, as China boosts its coal-mining potential

Business Recorder

China’s Inner Mongolia region starts construction of coal mine

Energy Sources | Coal

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the International Atomic Energy Agency on Sunday of ineffectually policing Iran's nuclear activities and suggested the U.N. watchdog risked becoming politicised and irrelevant

Reuters

Israel accuses U.N. nuclear watchdog of 'capitulating' to Iran

The Israeli government is “on edge” over this week’s decision by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to shutter two investigations into Iran’s alleged enrichment of “near weapons-grade” uranium, according to officials.

The Cradle

Israel fuming over IAEA decision to shut down Iran nuclear probes

Foreign Ministry claims credibility of IAEA 'severely damaged' by 'impossible' explanation for trace uranium at suspect site; PM warns Israel will do what it must to stop bomb


The Times of Israel

After IAEA closes uranium probes, Israel says it bowed to Iranian pressure

Namibia is a major uranium producer at mines such as Rossing, Husab and Langer Heinrich, but the sector was rocked when mines and energy minister Tom Alweendo advocated for greater government control.
Paladin owns 75 per cent of the Langer Heinrich mine, which has been mothballed since August 2018 but is the subject of a $US118 million ($180 million) restart effort. Paladin’s partner in Langer Heinrich is the China National Nuclear Corporation.

AFR News 

Paladin assurance on uranium mine nationalisation

Former U.S. State Department and nuclear regulatory officials on Tuesday urged the U.S. Energy Department to reconsider a plan to use bomb-grade uranium in a nuclear power experiment, saying that its use could encourage such tests in other countries.

US urged not to use bomb-grade uranium in nuclear power experiment

Researchers at Canada’s University of Regina are studying how uranium deposits in Saskatchewan’s Athabasca Basin formed more than 1.5 billion years ago to help figure out the best places to look for untapped resources.

Scientists figure out geological features linked to untapped uranium deposits

Evidence suggests the Inflation Reduction Act and the advent of small modular reactors is unlikely to lead to a US nuclear resurgence in the medium term.

Energy Monitor

Why a new era for US nuclear looks unlikely 

Russia's statements about the alleged threat of radioactive contamination due to Ukraine's use of armor-piercing shells containing depleted uranium do not correspond to reality.


Ukrinform

Russia spreading fakes about depleted uranium - Canadian Intelligence 

Texas-based Uranium Energy has begun an S-K 1300 initial assessment economic study (S-K 1300 IAES) at its 100% owned Roughrider project in Saskatchewan, Canada. Uranium Energy selected Canadian companies SLR Consulting and Wood to conduct the study.


Mining Technology

Uranium Energy starts assessment study for Canada uranium project

With all of the extra attention Iran has received in recent days in terms of presenting a growing potential nuclear threat, it is worth reviewing what the Islamic Republic has achieved and what tasks it still would need to accomplish in order to cross the nuclear threshold. Already in mid-2021, Iran has enriched significant quantities of uranium up to the 60% level, with a jump to the 90% weaponized uranium level being a task that can be accomplished in a matter of weeks.  

The Jerusalem Post

What is Iranian nuclear ‘weaponization’ and why is it decisive?

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is planning a small test reactor that would burn a large amount of weapons-grade uranium, according to the project’s draft environmental assessment. The experiment, to be built in a cost-sharing arrangement, would provide data for a new type of power reactor being developed by TerraPower and Southern Company Services.

Science News

U.S. planning test reactor to run on weapons-grade uranium

All the uranium produced in the USA during the first quarter of this year was from in-situ leach (ISL) operations, according to the latest US government update. But production from conventional mills as well as ISL looks set to ramp up over the coming months.


World Nuclear News

Quiet quarter for US uranium production as momentum builds

Russian security chief has warned of a "radioactive cloud" engulfing Europe, referring to the destruction of depleted uranium shells in Ukraine. Speaking in a government meeting on Friday, Nikolay Patrushev, the secretary of the Russian Security Council, warned that the destruction of depleted uranium shells in Ukraine produced a radioactive cloud that moved toward Europe. The destruction was reportedly made by the British-made Challenger tanks, which were supplied to Ukraine by the UK government. 

Press TV

'Radioactive cloud' from destroyed depleted uranium shells threatening Europe: Russia

China's largest seawater uranium extraction test platform has been successfully launched and made accessible to the public in South China's Hainan Province. The platform, built by China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC), has a total area of about 670 square meters.


Global Times

China's largest seawater uranium extraction test platform put into operation

For over a decade, China has been steadily expanding its nuclear power fleet to provide stable, reliable, clean baseload electricity for its growing economy

Forbes

How Long Will It Take For China’s Nuclear Power To Replace Coal?

A bill banning Russian uranium imports to the United States gained momentum on Tuesday by passing a committee in the U.S. House of Representatives. The bill, sponsored by Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers, a Republican, passed 18-12 in the House subcommittee on energy, climate and grid security.

Bill banning uranium imports from Russia passes US House subcommittee

Russia has confirmed supplying highly enriched uranium to two Chinese nuclear reactors, prompting concerns about the deepening collaboration between the two nations in the nuclear energy sector.

Eurasianet

Russia Confirms Highly Enriched Uranium Supply To China; US Fears Beijing Could Triple Its Nuclear Warheads By 2035

“Nuclear energy would never have made top billing at a meeting between our countries even a few years ago. So it gives you a sense of just how important nuclear power and the fuel cycle to support it have become.”

Live Wire Markets

Uranium getting a glow as North America puts nuclear power ‘front and centre’

While President Ebrahim Raisi is in Syria, classified information obtained shows Tehran is procuring uranium from phosphate mines in Syria to make yellowcake. According to the secret documents received by Iran International, the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) had asked the government to let the agency import 800,000 tons of phosphate from the mines under the Islamic Republic’s control in Syria without paying the share of the administration.

Iran Iternational

Iran Importing Phosphates From Syria To Extract Uranium

Earlier this year the International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Grossi reported that about 2.5 tonnes of uranium ore concentrate had gone missing from a site in Libya. This was arguably one of the largest quantity of uranium ore concentrate that had ever been misplaced.

All Africa

Libya Lost, Then Found, 2.5 Tonnes of Uranium - a Red Flag for Nuclear Safety

Energy Sources | Uranium

Second facility planned as EV battery supply chains begin to develop outside China 

Saudi Arabia expands lithium processing to supply BMW

The Argonne National Laboratory has received US$ 3.5 million (EUR 3.2 million) from the US government to help accelerate sustainable battery production in America.


Recycling International

Multi-million investment into US battery research

European countries have moved quickly to adopt new energy sources after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Governments have reduced imports of Russian-produced energy, with demand for natural gas in the European Union (EU) dropping by 13% last year compared to average annual levels.

POWER Magazine

Europe Ramps Renewables, Looks for New Gas to Reduce Reliance on Russia

The Russian defense minister warned on Friday that shells containing depleted uranium the UK plans to deliver to Ukraine may fall into the hands of terrorists, creating nuclear risks on a global scale.

Anadolu Agency

Russia warns depleted uranium shells to Ukraine may fall into terrorist hands

China’s massive coal imports last month included record purchases from Russia and Mongolia and a significant increase in cargoes from Australia, according to the latest Chinese customs data.

China’s Big Coal Haul Includes Record Russian Purchases

Nuclear powers within the Group of Seven nations pledged to end Russia’s dominance over global atomic-fuel markets, potentially cutting off a critical source of geopolitical currency for Russian President Vladimir Putin more than a year after his invasion of Ukraine. 


Nuclear Powers Pledge to Push Putin Out of Uranium Markets

Energy Sources | Geopolitics

The European Union is trying to assemble the building blocks to produce electric cars, but subsidies are luring companies to the United States.



The New York Times

As U.S. Races Ahead, Europe Frets About Battery Factory Subsidies

Plant expected to create 2,000 jobs as France aims to be self-sufficient in vehicle battery production by 2027



France opens first electric vehicle battery gigafactory

Aiming to build a stable energy supply system and realizing a recycling-oriented society with storage batteries



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