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Energy Future Holdings and mining reclamation bonds in Texas
This report presents the case that recent applications made by Luminant Mining, using Luminant Generation as a third party guarantor to the Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC) for selfbonding authority, creates a misleading impression…
October 01, 2013
Tom Sanzillo
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Stranded: Alpha Coal Project in Australia's Galilee Basin
In 2011, GVK Coal Developers (Singapore) Pte Limited (GVK Coal) bought the Alpha Coal Project (the project) from Hancock Prospecting in a US$1.26bn deal for which GVK Group’s Chairman, Dr GVK Reddy was awarded “Asia Deal of the Year”. Less…
June 01, 2013
Tom Sanzillo, Tim Buckley
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Peabody, in Kayenta exit, is abandoning native workforce ahead of reclamation work
As Peabody Energy ceases production this month at the Kayenta Mine complex in northern Arizona, the company plans to abandon its long-time workforce even as it faces a vast amount of reclamation responsibility in the area.
August 01, 2019
Karl Cates, Pam Eaton, Seth Feaster...
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U.S. fracking sector disappoints yet again
A review of 29 major fracking-focused oil and gas companies revealed meager cash returns in the second quarter of 2019.
August 01, 2019
Clark Williams-Derry, Tom Sanzillo, Kathy Hipple...
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Trans Mountain Pipeline financials: Built on quicksand and clear as mud
The controversial Trans Mountain Expansion Project is structured in a way that makes it difficult to determine how much Canadian taxpayers are paying now and will pay in the future.
April 01, 2019
Tom Sanzillo, Kathy Hipple
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PLN’s coal IPP funding gap suggests tariffs must rise in 2020
Indonesia’s state-owned utility may raise electricity tariffs to offset its growing costs.
May 01, 2018
Melissa Brown, Elrika Hamdi
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The beginning of the end
The coal-fired electricity industry in Texas is in decline and unlikely to recover in the face of rising competition from other energy sources.
September 01, 2016
David Schlissel
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Texas' outsize role in the decline of the Powder River Basin coal industry
Powder River Basin coal producers are losing their largest customers as Texas power producers turn increasingly to other sources of energy.
August 01, 2016
Tom Sanzillo
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A losing proposition: Why the proposal to repower the Cayuga Plant should be rejected
The Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) has assessed the financial viability of Cayuga Operating Company’s February 2015 revised proposal to repower the coal-fired Cayuga Power Plant (Cayuga) as a natural gas plant,…
August 01, 2015
David Schlissel, Cathy Kunkel
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Cost of coal from 'mine-mouth' Prairie State plant isn’t the bargain that was promised
A careful review of how the cost of coal is calculated, given the unusual business model governing this plant, demonstrates that any savings expected from using Lively Grove coal have not been realized.
April 01, 2015
Tom Sanzillo
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