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From the American Coal Magazine
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The Global Energy Debate Must Mature
By Michelle Manook, World Coal Association
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Although popular sentiment and media coverage would suggest that coal is not needed and no longer relevant, 40 nations that have not previously used coal for power have added it to their energy portfolios since 2010, including countries in the Middle East and Africa. The fact is often overlooked that coal is still forecast to be the single biggest source of electricity in 2040 and will remain vital to global steel production.
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The Energy Transition Will Take Decades Not Years
By Tsvetana Paraskova, Oilprice.com
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(Oct. 5, 2021) – This year’s global demand for all three fossil fuels has sent a message to overly enthusiastic proponents of the energy transition - hold your horses.
Those who predicted last year the demise of oil, gas, and coal after the pandemic and those who said that peak oil demand was already behind us because lasting changes in consumer behavior would reduce the use of crude are now facing reality.
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Coal at $200 a Ton and Soaring Use of Oil for Power Proves ‘The Iron Law of Electricity’
By Robert Bryce, Contributor to Forbes
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(Oct. 8, 2021) – Nearly five years ago while in Kolkata, I interviewed Sanjay Kar Chowdury, a manager at the Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation. When I asked him about the importance of coal to the Indian electric grid, he did not hesitate. Coal, he told me, “is a lifeline. It is a lifeline of all the thermal power stations. Without coal, you cannot survive...It’s not possible to keep the lights on without coal.”
Chowdury’s words are as true for India today as they were...
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The E in ESG Means Cancelling the S and the G
By Rupert Darwall, Real Clear Foundation via Real Clear Energy
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(Oct. 12, 2021) – Price rises – they keep on coming. Even before the recent surge in energy prices, companies had been warning about inflationary pressures in their supply chains. At the end of June, General Mills reported that it was facing cost increases of 7% and that it was raising the price of most of its grocery products. “No one wants to increase prices, but we’ve had to,” CEO Jeff Harmening said. Three weeks later, Unilever warned of a hit to profit margins...
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Thoughts on Report Claiming ‘Just 5% of Fossil Fuelled Power Are Responsible for More Than 70% of GHG Emissions From the Power Sector’
By Paul Baruya, International Centre for Sustainable Carbon
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(Aug. 27, 2021) – Recently a group from the University of Colorado (Boulder) analysed the world’s power stations and declared that just 5% of the world’s fossil fuelled stations could be responsible for 73% of all emissions coming from the power sector (Grant and others, 2021). The paper ‘Reducing CO2 emissions by targeting the world’s hyper-polluting power plants’ identified the locations of some of the largest stationary emitters of GHGs in the power sector.
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President Biden’s ‘Green’ Obsession is Already a Disaster
By Daniel Turner, Power of the Future via Real Clear Energy
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(Sept. 28, 2021) – The green revolution in the left’s $3.5 trillion reconciliation is a matter of trade-offs and Americans will find the final numbers don’t balance.
We can argue the “existential threat” of climate change which will be here in 7 years, or 10 years, or is already here, depending on the rhetoric. We can scoff at John Kerry’s private jets, Bernie Sanders’ multiple homes, and question the credibility of the prophets of doom whose carbon...
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Navajo Transitional Energy Company Takes on Coal Mining Operations at Navajo Mine
By Noel Lyn Smith, Farmington Daily Times
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(Oct. 2, 2021) – The mining manager of Navajo Mine has changed from North American Coal Company to the Navajo Transitional Energy Company after the facility’s contract mining agreement ended on Sept. 30.
NTEC transitioned into the management role on Oct. 1.
“Our business has grown and developed to a point where it is no longer necessary for NTEC to utilize a contractor miner at Navajo Mine,” company CEO Clark Moseley said...
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DOE Announces $16 Million to Support Community-Driven Pathways to Clean Energy
By Staff, U.S. Department of Energy
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(Sept. 15, 2021) – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today launched the Local Energy Action Program (Communities LEAP) – an initiative designed to help environmental justice communities and communities with historical ties to fossil fuel industries take direct control of their clean energy future. The Communities LEAP pilot program provides supportive services valued at up to $16 million to help communities develop locally-driven energy plans to more effectively leverage public and private...
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National Coal Council Approves Report for U.S. Secretary of Energy
By Staff, National Coal Council
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(Oct. 12, 2021) – Members of the National Coal Council (NCC) have approved a new report for the Secretary of Energy that provides an assessment of opportunities to enlist advanced manufacturing techniques to enhance use of U.S. coal in new and expanded carbon product markets. The report, completed at the request of the U.S. Secretary of Energy, emphasizes the value coal-to-carbon products provide in meeting top priorities of the Biden Administration...
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Struggling Coal Towns Must Transform as Energy Landscape Shifts
By Karin Rives, S&P Global Market Intelligence
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(Oct. 7, 2021) – The town of Wayne, W. Va., near the Kentucky border, knows something about transitioning coal workers to clean energy jobs. The nonprofit Coalfield Development, housed in a retrofitted five-and-dime brick store downtown, has already retrained more than 1,400 people for jobs in industries with a more promising future than coal.
“Construction has been our most reliable job-creation sector, but we’re seeing a significant increase in solar installer jobs as well,” said Brandon Dennison...
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