GLG News by Mining Equipment Experts

    The long-awaited Surface Transportation Board (STB) rate case decisions for coal transportation to captive BNSF Railway customers demonstrates it is nearly hopeless under the current process to successfully challenge a coal transportation rate.

    The Surface Transportation Board (STB) decided two Western coal transportation rate cases for the transportation of Powder River Basin coal in favor of the BNSF on September 10, 2007. Besides the STB’s decision being positive for the coal-hauling Class I Railroads, it is also...

    Section 29 of the U.S. Tax Code provides a tax credit to create synthetic fuel from coal material. The Section 29 tax credits date back to the early-1970s in the energy crisis and were designed to encourage more domestic, rather than foreign, energy sources. In many cases, without...

yes definately the total logistics industry is depend upon the pricing of shipping  of the goods from one country to onther country.the most of the company waits to slash down the price of transporatation ,it may take some drop in growth of exports industry mainely the shipments happenys through...

Since the US is the main culprit in destroying our planet, we must take the lead in arresting the destruction.  We have the technology now that would allow everyone in this country to help in saving the environment. Residential wind turbines, solar panels, passive solar construction, recycling,...

With the demand for ethanol so high right now, they would be foolish to sell it to multinationals.  Sugar cane is much better in the conversion process and Brazil has been running on 'flex fuel' successfully for quite sometime.  There is very little demand for fossils fuels there.

Will it increase our safety to let Mexican truckers enter the US uninspected as proposed.  Anyone can cross this border anytime and do.  We hand out 1000s of student and work visas with little scrutiny.  If a terrorist wants to do us great harm, our current protection is so underwhelming...

    A few decisions in September 2007 have been good news for building new coal-fired power plant generation. This shows it is not impossible to build a new coal-fired plant because of coal’s carbon dioxide emissions and the belief by some that these emissions contribute to global...

    Consol Energy Inc.’s continued placement of Northern Appalachian Coal as discussed in this and other announcements demonstrate the scrubber and high heat and sulfur content thesis the company has been discussing for over two years.     The...

    As the article points out, metallurgical coking coal prices are on the rise. The commentary section discusses the producers in this space and the potential affect on thermal coal.