But Murray Energy is not the only major firm forced down this route, with the US's top three coal producers all filing for bankruptcy since 2016. Missouri's Arch Coal, the country's second-largest producer, entered bankruptcy in January 2016, but resolved its …
The Juice Coal Companies Are Hurting. But the Coal Industry Is Not Dying. Climate hawks must realize that bankruptcies aren't the way to a lower-carbon future.
Nov 01, 2019· Coal mines are in trouble. Investors continue to flee the sector, while once-giant companies like Murray Energy are declaring bankruptcy.With the coal mining sector on the ropes, now is a great time to pit two of the largest companies — Glencore and BHP Group — against each other to see who is leading the transition away from coal.
Dec 04, 2016· Coal miners enter a mine near Gilbert, West ia, on May 22, 2014. Cathy Reisenwitz writes that in late 2015 and early 2016, Peabody Energy, Arch Coal, Alpha Natural Resources and Patriot Coal all filed for bankruptcy. Automation and fracking killed coal. And neither are going anywhere anytime soon. Robert Galbraith/reuters . Automation
Feb 09, 2021· The mine employed about 100 people in the fall of 2020, according to federal data. The mine will ship about 2 million tons of coal this year then commence full reclamation work in 2022, including "the demolition of the facilities," Arch CEO and President Paul Lang said in a press call Tuesday morning outlining the company's Fourth Quarter ...
Jan 27, 2021· The World's Long, Messy Breakup With Coal. Coal is in a death spiral — but it's far from clear when the final coal plant will close. Coal has powered industrial revolutions, but at an enormous cost for climate change and human health. Coal had a bad year last year. It was the latest in a line of tricky years, which have seen coal demand ...
Jul 29, 2021· Miners at Warrior Met Coal in Alabama have been on strike for almost five months, struggling to reverse concessions in pay, health care, and safety. Strikers brought their picket lines from the piney woods of the South to the tony Manhattan offices of three hedge fund shareholders on June 22, and more than 1,000 mine workers and union allies return today to demonstrate outside the offices of ...
Sep 13, 2015· Climate hawks have been gleeful over the trend of big U.S. coal companies filing for bankruptcy. Patriot Coal filed for Chapter 11 in May, Walter Energy sought protection in July, and Alpha Natural Resources succumbed in August.And it makes sense: A financially unviable coal industry could be a big step in the movement toward a lower-carbon future.
May 17, 2012· Arguably, though, the coal-export fight is secondary. From a climate-hawk point of view, ... so they can strip-mine it and export the coal at a profit. ... more California farms are deemed too ...
Mar 15, 2016· Prior to its bankruptcy declaration in January, Arch Coal had seen it shares drop to less than $1 a share, disqualifying them from the New York Stock Exchange. Arch was allowed to …
Sep 05, 2019· Such backward bankruptcy's also the reason non-union miners blocked the last coal train from their now-closed mine in Harlan County, Kent., for …
Earlier that week, the bankruptcy court had approved the sale of the Pax surface mine in West ia to Contura, and Blackjewel had requested approval for a private sale of six Kentucky coal mines and related permits to Black Mountain Resources, LLC. On Sept. 17, the bankruptcy court approved Kopper Glo Mining's purchase of 63 mining ...
Belle Ayr mine has the highest production costs in the Powder River Basin, at $11.81 per ton in 2013. Alpha Natural Resources, which owns the mine, filed for bankruptcy in 2015, and the company ...
Jul 28, 2021· Cosam Mullins mined coal in the western hills of ia for much of his working life. Now, with mining jobs hard to find, he's cleaning up the mess the industry left behind. The 68-year-old operates a bucket loader scraping away red, rocky waste dumped years ago by failed coal mine operators in a valley in the town of Clinchco, ia.
In 2012, Patriot Coal filed for bankruptcy protection on the back of decreasing demand and low coal prices. Additionally, some mining companies have had to pay penalties for extensive environmental damage. Alpha Natural Resources, the second largest coal miner in the US, last year agreed to pay $27.5m in fines for toxic discharges from its mines.
With other U.S. coal-mining companies in similar financial straits and demand for coal plummeting, Blackjewel's situation is a harbinger of the trouble ahead in coal country, Inside Climate News ...
Mar 07, 2011· Why companies don't care about climate change. Businesses would be more interested in saving trees if money grew on them. Cross-posted from TriplePundit. In 2009, I cofounded a company called ...
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Mar 14, 2018· US coal hasn't set aside enough money to clean up its mines. Published on 14/03/2018, 3:00pm. Schemes that favour coal companies in Appalachia have left a national shortfall experts said was 'one of the biggest public failures that has gone under the radar'. Massive strip mines dig into the coal seams of the Powder River Basin in Wyoming.
Mar 16, 2018· ia's bond pool only holds about $8.8 million but guarantees reclamation for roughly 150 permits across several companies. That has increased slightly from $7.3m in 2012, which an actuarial report warned at the time was only enough to clean up one or two small mines. The company with the largest liability against the bond pool — A&G Coal Corporation — has $134m in reclamation ...
Dec 20, 2000· The Department emphasized that the proposed revision was designed to make clear that obstructive lung disease may fall within the definition of pneumoconiosis, but only if it is shown to have arisen from coal mine employment; thus, the proposed definition would not alter the former regulations' (20 CFR 718.202(a)(4), 718.203 (1999)) requirement ...
Sep 15, 2019· Both say coal should continue to have a place in the economy alongside renewable energy. "It needs to be a group effort, not green is on one side and black is …
Nov 10, 2020· The future of thermal coal used to make electricity is not bright. But metallurgical coal has a role in the production of steel. And this is where Peabody and others like Arch Resources are ...
Sep 14, 2019· Days later, things got worse. Mine owner Blackjewel LLC filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on July 1. Worden at first figured the accounts would get settled quickly and vendors of ...
Thus, while bankruptcy can crimp the finances of creditors and investors, it won't necessarily cut coal mine output. In fact, coal companies seeking to pay off creditors may face pressure to ...
Mar 03, 2021· A federal bankruptcy judge in West ia could soon decide whether to allow the Blackjewel coal mining company, once the nation's sixth-largest coal producer, to shed responsibility for ...
Coal Mine Closures: Current Issues as the Industry Rapidly Declines Bankruptcies — and potential company liquidations — are looming for the coal sector. For communities that depend on coal, the combination of worker layoffs and revenue losses can be devastating. Further, the weak financial condition of many coal companies is making mine
An economic "heart attack" Closing down a mine was unheard of in the region, but coal bankruptcies have become common. Cloud Peak Energy filed for bankruptcy in May and is searching for a buyer ...