appalachian basin of quebec
Hinterland Metals Inc. (HNLMF) has acquired 112 mineral claims in a property that covers the southwest margins of the Paskwati Proterozoic sedimentary basin. It is an outlier located 45km southwest of the main Otish basin in Quebec. The Otish basin is being actively explored most notably at the Matoush Project where Strateco Resources Inc. has […]
January 10th, 2007 – Posted in General, Mining Stocks
Linn Energy, a Houston-based independent oil and gas company, will acquire oil and natural gas properties in Texas and West Virginia in three separate transactions for $454 million.
Linn Energy, which recently relocated from Pittsburgh, did not identify the Texas company or Appalachian Basin properties it is acquiring. Chief Financial Officer Kolja Rockov didn’t return a […]
December 23rd, 2006 – Posted in General, Oil and Gas
Linn Energy, a Houston-based independent oil and gas company, announced this week it will acquire oil and natural gas properties in Texas and West Virginia in three separate transactions for $454 million.
Linn Energy, which recently relocated from Pittsburgh, did not identify the Texas company or Appalachian Basin properties it is acquiring. Chief Financial Officer Kolja […]
December 21st, 2006 – Posted in General, Oil and Gas
Many private homes in the southern Quebec community of Thetford Mines are “severely contaminated” by asbestos and pose a dangerous public health risk, according to a new study released Wednesday.
Thetford Mines, a community of about 26,000 residents located just over 100 kilometres south of Quebec City, has long been the centre of Canada’s asbestos mining […]
March 5th, 2008 – Posted in Uncategorized
An Eastern Kentucky coal company pleaded guilty to allowing operation of an overweight coal truck that was involved in a wreck that killed a Martin County preacher.
Ashland-based Appalachian Fuels initially pleaded not guilty to the charge stemming from the death of the Rev. Lonnie Preece but changed its plea to guilty after reaching a settlement […]
October 4th, 2006 – Posted in Coal, General
UBS Investment Research raised its forecast for the price of natural gas to $9 per 1,000 cubic feet from $7.25 per 1,000 cubic feet.
“We believe improved domestic natural gas demand trends, soaring coal prices and likely increases in the cost of electricity generation, and increased competition for LNG (liquefied natural gas) from the Asian Pacific […]
May 3rd, 2008 – Posted in Coal, Oil and Gas
This short film captures some of the issues involved with Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining in the Appalachian Mountains. This form of coal mining is extremely damaging to the environment and the residents. For more information, please visit: http://www.ohvec.org/index.html http://www.mountainjusticesummer.org/index.php
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March 5th, 2008 – Posted in Uncategorized
Video produced by residents of Wise County, Virginia, who are suffering from the devastating impacts of mountaintop removal coal mining in their communities. Citizens have formed a new group, Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards, to fight the mining and save their communities.Viewed: 711 timesLength: 09:54
March 5th, 2008 – Posted in Uncategorized
An investor group is injecting $117 million into Targe Energy, an Aspinwall, Pa., coal mining and natural gas drilling firm.
The money, most of which came from Carlyle/Riverstone Global Energy and Power Fund III LP, will be used to expand coal and waste coal businesses and to drill for coal bed methane in the Appalachian Basin, […]
June 22nd, 2006 – Posted in General
Mr. George Sanders, President, Consolidated Pacific Bay Minerals Ltd. is pleased to report that a diamond drill and crew have been secured for the Otish ground program and that an airborne uranium survey is now underway over the Company’s claims in the Papaskwasati and Matoush regions of the Otish Mountains, Quebec. The drill is […]
July 5th, 2007 – Posted in Press Release, Uranium
The Quebec government will charge a royalty on petroleum products in an effort to combat greenhouse gas emissions, but drivers might be the ones who end up paying for it, some say. The $200-million-a-year generated by the tax will go into a green fund to fight climate change.
It is one of 24 measures the province announced […]
June 19th, 2006 – Posted in General, Oil and Gas
Majescor Resources Inc. is pleased to provide supplementary data on its significant uranium drill intersection at its 100%-owned Lac Mantouchiche uranium prospect located on the Mistassini property, in the Otish Mountains of Quebec (uranium rights under option to Strateco Resources Inc.; 721 claims, 384 km2). Based on recently received additional core assays, the Lac Mantouchiche […]
May 29th, 2008 – Posted in General, Uranium
