Sentences with phrase «us coal producer»

Revenue dropped 14 % at Peabody, the nation's biggest coal producer, as its net loss shrank.

Peabody Energy, the nation's biggest coal producer, has been on a gradual slide down the Fortune 500 over the past few years, as falling demand for coal hit it hard.

Investors increasingly speculate that coal producers could go bankrupt altogether.

The company, one of the largest metallurgical coal producers in the U.S., had nearly as much in debt as it had assets and, thanks to plummeting prices, its balance sheet was simply under too much pressure.

You can buy U.S. - listed Chinese companies, and there are Australian coal producers, but the factors that affect prices in those countries are different from the fundamentals here.

Eric Green, a portfolio manager at PENN Capital Management, suggests owning a mix of metallurgical and thermal coal producers in order to benefit from both prices rising.

Right now, EV / EBITDA ratios for coal producers range from five to 10 times.

Plus, he noted, because coal from western states, including Wyoming — by far the nation's top coal producer — is considerably cheaper than Appalachia's, «even if there's a big resurgence in demand, it's not likely to be for Kentucky coal.»

It's also come to light that George Soros recently moved $ 2 million into coal producers Peabody Energy and Arch Coal.

Canadian coal producers are facing a similar story.

The largest US coal producer, for one, lost more than US$ 500 million last year due to falling prices.

Australian coal producers are only marginally more attractive without the $ 24 - a-tonne carbon tax they used to pay.

Cloud Peak Energy Inc. (NYSE: CLD) is headquartered in Wyoming and is one of the largest U.S. coal producers and the only pure - play Powder River Basin (PRB) coal company.

The energy industry — oil, natural gas, and coal producers — will undoubtedly dismiss the report as alarmist.

Promises to bring back coal as a viable part of the U.S. energy policy have sent coal stocks soaring, and if government policy succeeds in driving more domestic manufacturing and production, then coal producers like Natural Resource Partners could see demand keep climbing.

Even with the gains, the coal producer's shares are still down more than 80 % since 2013, but that shows how much more upside Natural Resource Partners might have if coal returns to favor.

During his career, he has been Operations Executive at Zimasco in Zimbabwe, one of Africa's largest integrated ferrochrome producer, Head of Training and Development at the Hwange Colliery, Zimbabwe's largest coal producer and Head of HR at LionOre Mining's Africa division, until its acquisition by Norilsk Nickel.

For example, PNC no longer lends to coal producers with anything more than a minimal exposure to mountaintop removal mining.

Most of the coal producers we follow appear likely to post lower earnings in 2012.

In addition to the Company's mining operations, the Company markets and broker coals from its operations and other coal producers, both as principal and agent, and trade coal and freight - related contracts through trading and business offices.

Steaming coal producers appear to have achieved more modest price increases of close to 20 per cent, though this follows rises of 68 per cent negotiated in 2004/05.

As a result of the strong global demand for steel, coking coal producers negotiated an increase of around 120 per cent in contract prices, with iron ore contract prices generally rising by more than 70 per cent (Graph 39).

The coal producer said that net income was higher by nearly a sixth from year - ago levels, but adjusted pre-tax operating earnings dropped by double - digit percentages, and overall revenue was down 4 % compared to the first quarter of 2017.

The ACCC has issued a draft decision proposing to grant authorisation to certain Queensland coal producers to collectively negotiate with Gladstone Ports Corp..

The ACCC has granted authorisation to a group of Queensland coal producers, known as the RG Tanna Coal Export Terminal Producers (the applicants), to collectively negotiate with Gladstone Ports Corporation (GPC).

They can't force coal producers in Appalachia to change their ways by working on a state level, but they can by increasing the power that the Federal government has.

India, Indonesia also see rising production GBI projects that India, currently the world's third - largest coal producer, will also see a surge in production — on the order of 6.8 percent annually — because of the country's heavy reliance on coal - fired electricity along with expanding steel, cement and fertilizer manufacturing sectors.

While state coal producers have their bureaucratic turf to protect, local governments have something else to hide.

An example would be that the restriction on coal production at 3.9 billion metric tons in the period 2011 to 2015 was set after the China National Coal Association, which comprises state coal producers such as Shenhua Group, Datong Coal Mine Group and Yanzhou Mining Group, reached consensus.

Shenhua Group, the country's largest coal producer and the second - largest in the world, for one, said in its latest financial report that the company's profit dropped by 13.7 percent in the first three quarters of 2014 compared with a year ago.

A Reuters report from 6 February suggests that, despite being the world's biggest coal producer and consumer, China may start importing more coal than it exports as early as the end of 2007.

Coal producers operating in Australia have pledged to contribute $ 1 billion by 2016 to a fund for CCS technology development.

«Remain in the Paris agreement,» urged Colin Marshall, CEO of coal producer Cloud Peak Energy, in a letter to Trump on April 6.

Meanwhile, the FutureGen Alliance — a consortium of 14 of the world's largest coal producers and coal burners behind the proposed plant — plans to continue to pursue the facility, but not without some form of government assistance.

Our research has found that U.S. subsidies to oil, gas, and coal producers average more than $ 20 billion each year.

In some respects, it is like the Las Vegas poker tournaments, where you see all the players placing bets to protect their positions... US, Canada, Australia — the big coals producers wanting to protect thier «advantage».

More than half of India's power - generation capacity of 205 gigawatts is coal - based, and Coal India Ltd., the world's biggest coal producer, is unable to produce enough owing to delays in getting environmental clearances for mining.

At the same time, bans on mountaintop removal mining will push coal producers underground, while underground mining will have steeper safety regulations, which will push the price of coal up, too.

Martis is also a senior policy fellow at the Energy and Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal), which has received funding from coal producers like Arch Coal and Peabody Energy.

Not that such a halt in coal production would be insignificant, especially coming from the world's major coal producers.

The Heartland Institute's report was co-authored by Fred Palmer, who previously worked for coal producer Peabody Energy from 2001 - 2015.

The largest coal producing countries are not confined to one region - the top five hard coal producers are China, the USA, India, Australia and Indonesia.

Lawson's testimony resurfaced in December 2016 when coal producer Robert Murray of Murray Energy attached a copy of it to his own testimony against the standard.

Fredrick D. Palmer, executive vice president for legal and external affairs at Peabody Energy of St. Louis, one of the world's largest coal producers, said it was not really necessary to lobby the Bush administration on the issue, because Big Coal's interests and the administration's views were in sync from the start.

In a 2016 bankruptcy filing, coal producer Peabody Energy also disclosed that it contributed $ 50,000 to IER in 2015.

In a 2016 bankruptcy filing, coal producer Peabody Energy also

The financing provided by this fund has enabled coal producers to restructure and recapitalize, leading to significant expansion of thermal coal production.

One of Australia's largest coal producers, Yancoal Australia Ltd has become the newest member of the World Coal Association (WCA), the only body acting globally on behalf of the coal industry...

They also wrote that «we have changed every instance of the word «Peabody» on www.coalcares.org to a rotating selection of the names of other large U.S. coal producers who, like Peabody, also need to be stopped from killing kids.»

In the US, coal producers increased exports to counter the domestic downturn and sought to expand overseas production capacity which could supply the booming Asian region.