Courrier Mail (Free subscription) | yesterday
PEABODY Energy Corp, the largest US coal producer and a major Australian player, has cut production in the face of reduced world demand.
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The ailing economy has left a big question mark hanging over the U.S. coal industry: Will last year's high-priced contracts and today's declining costs be enough to offset rapidly falling world demand this year? Mine operators already have scaled back production plans for 2009, namely coking coal used in steel mills as manufacturing grinds to a halt. Peabody Energy Corp.,...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | yesterday
... for 2009, namely coking coal used for steelmill blast furnaces as manufacturing grounds to a halt.Peabody Energy Corp., one of the world's largest coal miners, said this week it was cutting its production in Wyoming and Australia because of the economic downturn.Investors have pulled billions out of the market and coal companies have not been immune.Wall Street analysts have lowered...
Daily Advance - Business (Free subscription) | yesterday
... for 2009, namely coking coal used for steelmill blast furnaces as manufacturing grounds to a halt.Peabody Energy Corp., one of the world's largest coal miners, said this week it was cutting its production in Wyoming and Australia because of the economic downturn.Investors have pulled billions out of the market and coal companies have not been immune.Wall Street analysts have lowered...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The ailing economy has left a big question mark hanging over the U.S. coal industry: will last year's high-priced contracts and today's declining costs be enough to offset rapidly falling world demand this year?Already, mine operators have scaled back production plans for 2009, namely coking coal used for steelmill blast furnaces as manufacturing grounds to a halt.Peabody Energy...
Sri Lanka Guardian (Free subscription) | 01/01/2009
Cameco uranium mining and Sithe Global/Navajo Nation, tied for the seventh Worst Company in the World. Israel’s Elbit Systems and Raytheon tied for eighth place. Boeing, constructing the US/Mexico Apartheid Border Wall, followed in ninth place. Newmont Mining was voted the 10th Worst Company in the World by the readers of Censored News blog, which focuses on the censored news of Indigenous Peoples...
