Sentences with phrase «coal contract»

Recent negotiations have secured large increases in steaming coal contract prices for 2004 — reportedly as high as 70 per cent in US dollar terms — which will substantially increase prices received by exporters in coming months.
Finally, coal fired power plants in Minnesota, owned by Minnesota Power (the oldest of which is from l9l7 and all of which are over 50 years old) are seeking new coal contracts for a mine on the Northern Cheyenne reservation (Otter Creek) to be operated by Arch Coal.
However, CAPP spot prices, both for rail and barge, are frequently referenced in coal contracts between coal suppliers and electric power producers.
Steaming coal contract prices, which rose by over 60 per cent in US dollar terms in 2004, are expected to increase by at least another 20 per cent in the coming year.
Rapid growth in global steel demand has also boosted contract prices for other bulk commodities; coking coal contract prices increased, on average, by 25 — 35 per cent in US dollar terms in recent negotiations, while iron ore contract prices have risen by close to 20 per cent.
Coal is around $.11, though utilities in California are resisting new coal contracts, especially PG&E, as a hedge against future carbon charges.
Whether the removal of 500mountain tops in Appalachia (largely for foreign coal contracts), extreme mining proposals in the Great Lakes region, to Fracking and tar sands extraction, we are clearly on a scorched path.
In the Northwest, Puget Sound Energy has built early - exit provisions into its proposed coal contract for the Colstrip plant in Montana, a town that is feeling the pangs of coal's decline.
Some coking coal contracts have reportedly been settled at prices more than double current contract price levels.
Many Colombians, however, have denounced the easy terms of the coal contract between the Turbay government and Exxon, complaining that the multinational corporation will seize the lion's share of the profits.
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