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Wisconsin's second-largest coal plant and source of carbon dioxide will shut down by 2025 as utilities continue the shift away from fossil fuels. Alliant Energy, the majority owner and operator of the Columbia Energy Center near Portage, announced the retirement to the plant's workers Tuesday morning. David de Leon, president of Alliant's Wisconsin utility, said closing the 45-year-old plant ...
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Between the initial planning and development of Cerrejon in 1976 until 2002, ExxonMobile's local subsidiary Intercor owned half of the Cerrejon mine; the other half was owned by Colombian government-owned Carbocol S.A. Both Intercor and Carbocol S.A. sold off their shares to the current owners of the mine in the years 2000 and 2002 respectively.
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At the end of the century returns to be sold and the new owners will change the name to King Gambrinus Brewery until 1914 when it was closed. In 1882 the brewery was founded La Rosa Blanca that brews beer "White Rose" having some success at the time about being closed in 1910, the Brewery Henry Alfrod that began more or less in 1884 and was ...
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marzo 5, 2020 0 429 Colombian mine workers at Cerrejon, one of the country's biggest coal exporters, will begin voting on Saturday for possible strike action amid salary negotiations, a union source told Montel on Thursday. The voting period will last 10 days, after which the union would have a further 10 days to call for industrial action.
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Our Cerro Matoso open-cut mine in northern Colombia is a significant producer of ferronickel. For more than 35 years we have operated here, in Cordoba, but nickel was first discovered in the region way back in the 1950s. Cerro Matoso is an important driving force of the local economy and it is fair to say the mine has helped shape the region.
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The Cerrejón thermal coal mine in La Guajira is the largest in Latin America and one of the world's biggest open-pit coal export mining operations. Approximately 80,000 tonnes of coal per day is transported 150km via rail to Puerta Bolívar. During 2020 and 2021, the vast majority of Colombia's coal exports went to the Middle East. Coal ...
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Despite a decline in the market, coal is Colombia's second largest export, which makes it a major economic interest to continue the mining pursuit. Since mining began at the Cerrejón mine, contractors have taken more than 650 million tonnes of the fuel from the soil. ... "The owner of the property, who is not related with Cerrejón, is the ...
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The mine is operated by Cerrejon Coal Ltd (Carbones del Cerrejon in Spanish), owned by three enormous London-listed mining companies: Anglo American, BHP Billiton and Glencore Xstrata. Its construction and expansion have forced numerous small farming communities, many of indigenous Wayuu people or people of African descent, to move.
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The most studied case of coal ash damage occurred at Belews Lake in North Carolina in the 1970s, when coal ash-contaminated water from an ash pond at Duke Energy's Belews Creek Steam Station caused a long-term catastrophic toxic event. Selenium poisoning killed 19 of the 20 fish species in 3800-acre Belews Lake.
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The government owns all hydrocarbon reserves, and Colombian coal production is exclusively managed by private companies. The largest coal producer in Colombia is the Carbones del Cerrejon (Cerrejon) consortium, composed of Anglo-American, BHP Billiton, and Glencore Xstrata, which operate in the region of La Guajira. [29]
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It's the world's largest open pit coal mine, exporting 32 million tons of coal annually. The company owns a 93-mile long railway and a deep-water seaport. Despite an arid climate, in the past the...
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Ipuana traveled to London, UK, in 2019 to denounce how one of the multinational owners of the coal mine, BHP, treats his community at the mining company's annual shareholders' meeting. Latin America's largest coal mine, in operation since 1985, the Cerrejón mine is owned by a consortium of three of the largest mining multinational giants ...
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Chile is the continent's other big user, receiving approximately 20 percent of its electricity from coal. Colombia, while not a large coal consumer, is the world's 10th-largest producer and is an...
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The Cerrejón Formation has been divided into three groups (lower, middle, and upper) based on the thickness and distribution of the coal beds. Overall coal bed thickness averages 3 m and ranges from 0.7 to 10 m (Weaver, 1993), although the thickest coal beds (1.4 to 10 m) is in the upper part of this sedimentary sequence. Mining Methods,
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The coal industry employed 92,230 people in 2019 (86,647 in 2018), representing about 19% of total employment in the mining sector. 258.9 million tonnes produced in 2019 (253Mt in 2018) with total coal sales of R139.3 billion (R146 billion in 2018) Net investment in the coal industry was R4.5 billion in 2010, decreasing to R2.5 billion in 2018 ...
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BOGOTA, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Colombia's coal output could recover some 20% in 2021 versus last year, Mines and Energy Minister Diego Mesa said on Thursday, adding that the government expects to award...
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Cerrejon co-owners Glencore, BHP and Anglo-American have announced they are considering selling their open pit mine located in northern Guajira province because of what they described as dim future demand prospects for Colombian coal.
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May 9, 2022What is price of coal in Colombia today? The price of coal in China today 10.09.2022: Anthracite coal, USD/MT: 152. Coal 5,500 kcal, USD/MT: 138.
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Gustavo Petro: Firstly, revenues from oil and coal have been declining. And in reality we are subsidising coal—it's not a source of revenue for Colombia, it's an expense. We subsidise the...
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The government says that as many as 2,500 wind turbines on the La Guajira Peninsula could generate 17 percent of Colombia's electricity by 2031. "La Guajira will become the epicenter of Colombia's energy transition," Diego Mesa Puyo, minister for Mines and Energy, said earlier this year. Ground zero for this ambitious renewable energy ...
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(Adds that union-employer meeting possible later Wednesday; Drummond declines comment) CARACAS, July 9 (Reuters) - Mechanics at Colombia's main coal mining companies, including Cerrejon and...
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BOGOTA, March 31 (Reuters) - U.S.-based Drummond Co Inc, Colombia's second biggest coal miner, resumed exports of the fuel after an upgrade of its port to meet new environmental legislation, the...
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Glencore may be walking away from its Colombian coal mines, but Colombia isn't. The South American nation better known for its coffee and crude is also a major supplier to European coal-fired ...
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The largest coal mine in the world by reserves is the North Antelope Rochelle coal mine located in the Powder River Basin of Wyoming, US. ... Coal Company Raspadskaya is the owner and operator of the mine. Coal mining at Raspadskaya was started in the late-1970s. The mine produces 100% coking coal. The production totalled 12.7Mt in 2018 ...
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Key points: The OECD investigation follows the UN calling for a halt to mining at Cerrejon Cerrejon is owned by BHP, Anglo American and Glencore The Colombian Constitutional Court has acknowledged environmental and health damage caused by the mine
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Many economists say Petro's fossil fuels policy will hit Colombia's economy hard. Oil and coal account for more than 70 per cent of all royalty payments in the country, 8 per cent of fiscal ...
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Venezuela, Colombia border areas hopeful as reopening looms. SAN JUAN DE COLON, Venezuela (AP) — The freight company owned by Alfredo Rosales and his brothers was hustling, its 50 or so trucks constantly on the go hauling about 1 million tons of coal, cement, and other goods every year in commerce between Venezuela and Colombia.
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Colombia, Coal & Murder by Daniel Kovalik. ... notably to get rid of SINTRAMIENERGETICA union leaders. In addition to company owner Gary DRUMMOND and DRUMMOND President Mike Tracy, Charris said ...
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ELEVEN miners were killed and 10 were missing and feared dead Wednesday after an explosion ripped through a coal mine in northeastern Colombia, local officials told AFP. Six bodies, wrapped in white plastic bags, were removed from the mine at around 6:00pm local time by search teams, an AFP reporter at La Preciosa mine witnessed.
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Cerrejon Coal, Colombia: "an abusive marriage, full of machismo" By Richard Solly. London Mining network. ... Cerrejon Coal and its London-listed owners have continually reassured us that they have learnt from past mistakes and that the relocations of three more communities - Roche, Chancleta and Patilla - were being conducted in a wholly new ...
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Jul 9, 2021As part of that strategy global mining giant BHP and Anglo American each agreed to sell their 33.3% interest in Cerrejon, Colombia's largest coal mine, to Glencore for a total of $588 million. This will make Glencore sole owner of the controversial Cerrejon mine.
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With $294m sale, project partner Glencore becomes sole owner of Cerrejon coal mine. Production at Colombia's Cerrejon coal mine is due to decline significantly after 2030, according to Glencore. ...
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Activists seek OECD help to close vast Cerrejón coal project owned by Anglo American, BHP and Glencore Cerrejón is one of the largest open-pit mines in the world and has been the source of disputes...
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Closely held Drummond Co. is expected to increase Colombia output by about 5% or 6%, and the Cerrejon mine, in which Glencore owns a stake, has resumed operations after a 91-day strike last year ...
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The coal region in Colombia is in the north, close to the Caribbean coast, in the Cesar and La Guajira Departments. The people who have lived there for decades, in some cases centuries, are mostly Afro-Colombian and indigenous peasants who have survived by farming, hunting, fishing, and day labor on ranches owned by large landholders in the ...
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In 2016 alone, 70 gigawatts of new coal capacity was added globally—a net increase of 57 gigawatts, after accounting for plants taken out of use. That's nearly 40% of the total coal-fired power plant capacity in Europe today, or the equivalent of roughly 800 megawatts of new capacity every four days. New Headwinds Emerge.
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Mar 22, 2022Because of the way mining royalties and taxes are structured in Colombia, coal revenues have a strong impact on national and local government budgets. While in 2020, the economic downturn of the pandemic caused coal prices to slump to US$33 per tonne, by 2021 they shot to over US$200.
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Clodagh Daly of the Latin America Solidarity Centre in Dublin said the ESB, which was 95 per cent State owned, was involved in a "brighter future" campaign that advocated "a clean energy future...
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Jul 1, 733State-owned coal company Ecocarbon also plans to establish a project in Angelopolis similar to one it funds jointly with UNICEF in Topaga, northeast of Bogota, the capital. There around 50...
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