Conference, registration, and hotel information is available at www.coalmarketstrategies.com
Coal supply, consumer and transportation executives face an overwhelming number of marketplace and public policy challenges. The American Coal Council’s 2008 Coal Market Strategies Conference examines the many and varied dynamics at play in today’s U.S. coal industry and focuses on how coal producers, utilities, railroads, ports and barge operators are addressing the industry’s TOP 10 issues.
Today’s coal industry is subject to increasing scrutiny and unprecedented demands from legislators, environmental groups, shareholders and the general public. Business resources are being stretched thin to address safety, environmental compliance, permitting, technology development, and infrastructure needs. Operations and construction costs are rising in response to unprecedented global demand for labor, steel, petroleum products and engineering services. Supply dynamics are shifting with emerging markets for U.S. exports and the increasing use of scrubbers.
Attendees will benefit from the opportunity to learn about a broad spectrum of the industry’s most pressing issues, including how these factors interact and affect decisions regarding mine and power plant development, fuel sourcing and strategic planning.
Conference, registration, and hotel information is available at www.coalmarketstrategies.com
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The American Coalition for Clean Coal Energy has released their latest radio ad that discusses the concerns and interests of American voters.
You can see their other ads on the ACCCE website.
Canadian Centre for Policy Studies: Eight Arguments against a Carbon TaxIn this Canadian Centre for Policy Studies report (released Sept. 2008), David Murrell reviews a list of reasons why he believes a proposed carbon tax would be damaging to the Canadian economy.
After describing the basics of the proposed carbon tax, Murrell provides eight reasons he believes the carbon tax will not achieve its stated goals:
Last September we reported in the Coalblog about former Vice President Al Gore's calls for young people to engage in civil disobedience as a means of stopping the construction of new coal plants.
We are now treating the Earth's atmosphere as an open sewer ... I can't understand why there aren't rings of young people blocking bulldozers ... and preventing them from constructing coal-fired power plants.
In that post we also noted how NASA climate scientist James Hansen continued in his moves further into a more extreme activist form of "science" by joining Gore in his calls for direct action.
It seems to me that young people, especially, should be doing whatever is necessary to block construction of dirty (no CCS) coal-fired power plants.
At the September 24th meeting for the Clinton Global Initiative, the former Vice President upped the ante by once again calling for civil disobediance and direct action against new coal-fueled plants.
This Popular Mechanics article describes the Chrysler company's plans to have at least three models of EV (electric vehicle) in production and for sale by 2010.
In a September 10, 08 ruling a British jury handed down a ruling that essentially encourages vandalism of the UKs coal-fueled power plants.
