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| May 2007 |
One miner's recruiting ground - "Over the past three years, that recruitment drive has generated hundreds of job applications and 45 new miners, an influx that has helped push the average age at the company down to 36".
- Wendy Stueck
www.globeandmail.com
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| May 2007 |
The "Coal is filthy" ad-scam: Gas Company ad campaign could harm energy policies and consumers - "Prominent advertisements in major US papers featured an ethnic spectrum of smudge-faced California models, whose misleading claims about emissions from coal-fired electrical generating plants were reinforced by a CleanSkyCoalition.com website."
-Paul K. Driessen
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| April 2007 |
Coal Surge Seen by Mobius as China's Imports Increase - "Coal is poised to rebound from a two-year slump as China buys more than it exports for the first time in history".
-Bloomberg
www.bloomberg.com |
| April 2007 |
China could become net importer of thermal coal by 2008 - "Coal prices may surge 42% in five years as China could buy more than it exports in 2008 for the first time in history."
- Mineweb
www.mineweb.co.za |
| April 2007 |
Mine of the month: Quinsam Coal - "Hillsborough Resources' underground Quinsam thermal coal mine on Vancouver Island, BC is boosting production in the wake of new market development and rising demand from its core cement customers".
- Mining Magazine
[complete article] (pdf 318kb)
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| November 2006 |
Coal in a Nice Shade of Green - "When it comes to energy, we are trapped between a rock and a hard place."
- Thomas Homer-Dixon & S. Julio Friedman
The New York Times |
| October 2006 |
King Coal Redux - "Indeed, coal power is back in fashion to a surprising extent. It now supplies 34% of Britian's power, up from 28% in 1999."
- The Economist
www.economist.com
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| September 2006 |
Coal: Coming in from the Cold - "Canada produced 65.3million metric tons (mt) of coal in 2005, mostly from the provinces of Alberta and British Columbia. "
- Engineering and Mining Journal p.68 - 70
www.e-mj.com
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| September 2006 |
Coal Power - "Coal is Canada's most abundant and lowest-cost fuel, not to mention a critical input in the manufacture of steel. Including the energy resident in coalbed methane, Canada's 6 billion tonnes of proven coal reserves store more energy than all of our oil, natural gas and oil sands combined."
-The Globe & Mail
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| August 2006 |
Coal could replace oil as fuel of choice - "Coal, the hard, black byproduct of fossilized plants used as fuel since China's Western Han dynasty 2,000 years ago, may take over oil as the best performing energy investment".
- Bloomberg News
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| May 2006 |
Ed Beswick, Director of Environment & Permitting speaks to Aboriginal Forum at the Western Standard (Radio Interview).
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| March 2006 |
David Slater, President & C.E. O. speaks to The Financial Reckoning at the Western Standard on Hillsborough Resources and coal (Radio Interview).
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| March 2006 |
Coal-fired power plant proposed for B.C. - "British Columbia may soon join the rest of the world in buring coal to generate power."
-Scott Simpson, The Vancouver Sun
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| March 2006 |
Hillsborough Resources and AES plan coal-power plant in northeast B.C. - "We think there is a potential deficit of electricity in the Northeast," David Slater, president and chieft executive of Hillsborough, said Monday. The Vancouver-based company proposes to develop the project with AES Pacific Inc., a unit of Arlington, Va. - based global energy company AES Corp."
- Craig Wong, MoneySense.ca
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| January 2006 |
West Virginia Tragedy Hits Home for Local Miners - "Be safe and come back alive. That’s the message miners at Quinsam Coal’s Campbell River mine hear every day before they head underground for their eight-hour shifts."
- Campbell River Mirror
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