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...And read on for news of America’s efforts to speed up lithium production; a plea from Myles, who is heading back to West Texas next week; and today’s Data Drill on rising global liquefied natural gas demand...
...“If we were to enter another crisis between the United States and China or the west and China . . . this would be one of the top tools that China could use,” said Theodore Bunzel, co-head of Lazard Geopolitical...
...As sun sets over the vast plains of south-eastern New Mexico and west Texas, lights flitter across the horizon as pick-up trucks haul equipment to-and-fro, convoys of oilfield workers motor back to town...
...The factory will hire and retrain former coal miners, under a deal with the United Mine Workers Association hatched at a White House dinner....
...In a sharp departure from generations of conservatives, it is also suspicious of big companies....
...important as suppliers of energy: the United States, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria and others....
...Brutal work In the mining communities, it is not just resources being exploited but often workers too....
...The $285m Bighorn Solar array, developed by Lightsource BP just outside Pueblo, the city that made much of the rail track that snakes across America’s west, will be one of the largest solar facilities east...
...Eni renames retail and renewable power business ahead of IPO. Hochschild Mining shares plummet after Peru announces multiple mine closures....
...It feels like energy is now fully part of America’s culture wars....
...Back in America, Bédat observes the robot-like way in which warehouse workers must operate at Amazon, now the US’s largest clothing retailer....
...“We believe that the second coming of the Lord is going to get here before a just transition makes it our way,” said Cecil Roberts, president of the United Mine Workers of America....
...“We have fewer big companies here, so skilled workers and apprentices still have to ‘emigrate’ to the west to find work,” he says....
...Companies have announced their own precautions. The United Mine Workers of America union wrote to Mr Trump asking for a specific emergency standard to address unique disease risks among its workers....
...Kana Inagaki in Tokyo 22....
...The immediate threat in Wyoming is most acute in Kemmerer, in the west of the state, where a coal mine feeds PacifiCorp’s Naughton power station....
...The financial troubles of Murray Energy could put pressure on Congress to take action to rescue the United Mine Workers of America pension fund, which is likely to become insolvent sooner than current projections...
...African-American and Italian immigrant “scabs”, who had been moved in by the coal owners to replace the striking Appalachian miners, were invited to join the illegal United Mine Workers union....
...“Our company is trying to do exactly what California, the local air district, the city, the port, environmental groups and local communities have directed marine terminals to do — improve the environment...
...years of Taiwanese-owned fishing vessels employing North Korean workers and Taiwan importing textiles from North Korea....
...Leaning out of the window of her ground-floor flat in one of the town’s drab prefab apartment buildings, Lill clowns around with Alexei Lobanov, her 22-year-old husband....
...Rystad Energy, a consultancy, says production costs at mines have almost halved from $39 to $22 per barrel between 2014 and 2016, while in situ plants’ production costs have dropped from $18 to about $11...
...In 2015 mines in Pennsylvania produced on average 3.61 short tons of coal per worker per hour....
...In a gaffe that coal workers have not forgotten, Mrs Clinton said offhandedly in March that “we’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business” by shifting to renewable energy....
...subsidiary of French energy company Total, plunged 15 per cent....
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