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Newcastle Coal Exports Rise 22%; Queue of Ships at 1-Year High

By Dinakar Sethuraman

Dec. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Coal exports from Australia's Newcastle, the world's biggest export harbor for the fuel, climbed 22 percent last week while the number of ships waiting outside the port was the highest in a year.

The volume shipped in the week ended 7 a.m. local time yesterday rose to 2.09 million metric tons from 1.71 million tons a week earlier, Newcastle Port Corp. said today on its Web site. A total of 45 ships, waiting to load 3.84 million tons of coal, were lined up outside the port, unchanged from last week. Read more...

Developer unveils coal-to-gas refinery for W.Va.

By TIM HUBER , 12.09.08, 02:59 PM EST

A New York electric power plant developer with a mixed track record announced plans Tuesday to build a $3 billion coal-to-liquids plant capable of refining an estimated 6.5 million barrels of gasoline annually in West Virginia.

TransGas Development Systems hopes to obtain a state air quality permit so it can begin construction by 2010 and start operations by 2013. The company is proposing to build the plant on an 800-acre site in the state's southern coalfields leased from the Mingo County Development Authority. Read more...

Solid Energy hot on coal

By KRIS HALL - The Dominion Post | Tuesday, 25 November 2008

A successful Waikato coal-seam gas project which supplies enough energy for more than 500 homes showed how New Zealand is "now the lucky country" for its energy resources, Solid Energy chief executive Don Elder says.

Speaking at the state-owned company's maiden annual meeting in Auckland yesterday, Dr Elder dodged the sniping remarks of protesting environmentalists by talking up New Zealand as perfectly placed to exploit growing demand for coal.

The coal-seam gas scheme was the first of its type in New Zealand.

The scheme was adding up to one megawatt of electricity to the national grid. "Our resources in the Waikato are potentially as big as Kupe gas field and could provide up to 10 per cent of New Zealand's gas supply," Dr Elder said.

Gas from Solid Energy's four Huntly wells contain only 1 per cent carbon dioxide and 98 per cent energy-rich methane. The gas has a lower carbon footprint than conventionally produced natural gas, which up till now was New Zealand's cleanest thermal power source, Dr Elder said. Read more...

Beshear Calls for Nuclear and Clean Power: Promoting Coal-to-Liquid Technology and Lifting Bans Will Keep Jobs in, and Bring New Ones to, the Region

Friday, November 21, 2008 5:54 AM

(Source: The Paducah Sun)By Bill Bartleman, The Paducah Sun, Ky.

Nov. 21--Western Kentucky would benefit from a comprehensive energy policy that includes consideration of nuclear power plants, nuclear recycling facilities and coal-to-liquid fuel plants, Gov. Steve Beshear said Thursday.

Beshear released a 144-page plan that he hopes to begin implementing next year when the General Assembly meets. It will take several years to carry out some parts of the plan because of the potential cost, Beshear said in a phone interview.

He said the plan would help make Kentucky a leader in the national effort to reduce energy dependence on foreign countries, many of which are enemies of the United States.

"It also has an economic development benefit," Beshear said. "If we are successful in carrying it out, 40,000 new jobs would be created by 2025."

He said one of the early goals would be to lift the state's 1979 ban on building new nuclear power plants.

"It is time to have conversations about the role that nuclear power should play in the future," Beshear said. "It already is part of our strategy nationally because we produce 20 percent of our electricity by nuclear energy."Read more...

Some Mat-Su homeowners turn to coal for heat

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The high cost of heating oil prices has some homeowners in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough turning to coal. Houston homeowner Roger Purcell used his family's state energy rebate money to buy a coal stove after a fill-up of his heating oil tanks took a big bite out of his bank account. "We're hoping to cut our fuel cost this year in half of what we had last year," Purcell said. "For the price and the reduction of fuel, it made it very cost efficient - just in the first month in a half, the furnace will pay for itself." Read more...

Beacon Redevelopment Industrial Corporation Completes Purchase and Development Agreements of its Coal Mining Rights and Receives Valuation Estimates

November 18, 2008

Beacon Redevelopment Industrial Corporation (Pink Sheets: BCND) today announced that it's wholly owned subsidiary Beacon Energy Corporation has finalized and completed the purchase of 100% of the coal rights for two parcels of land totaling 1020 acres in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. The coal forms part of the Upper and Thick Freeport Coal Seams in Western Pennsylvania.Beacon Energy Corporation will contract with a qualified mining company that will utilize modern equipment and technologies, thus allowing Beacon Energy to secure the maximum amount of coal output using longwall methods of extraction. Beacon's consultants estimate that these rights will provide the company access up to 2.5 million tons of coal production during the extraction period. Read more...