BLOOMBERG
By Fitri Wulandari - Feb 19, 2013
Coal output from Indonesia, the world’s largest exporter of the fuel for power-stations, may rise by 5.2 percent this year.
The country may produce 400 million metric tons as long as prices stay above $92 a ton, Bob Kamandanu, the chairman of Indonesian Coal Mining Association, said in an interview while attending a conference in Singapore today. Output was 380 million in 2012.
China Carbon Tax Examined
ELLA CHOU BLOG
Practical implications: 1) it is a tax, which is better than a fee (apparently); 2) it is a pollution tax, carbon is only part of the targeted emission
Wyoming coal company strikes export deal to use Cherry Point terminal
By ASSOCIATED PRESS AND — THE BELLINGHAM HERALD
A Wyoming mining company has signed an option agreement allowing it to ship up to 16 million tons of coal a year through Gateway Pacific Terminal at Cherry Point — if that project can get the regulatory approvals it needs.
Cloud Peak Energy said Wednesday's deal involving Gateway Pacific Terminal, proposed by SSA Marine of Seattle, will allow it to expand overseas sales amid weak domestic demand.
Gov. Kitzhaber, Mayor McGinn: No to coal exports
SEATTLEPI.COM
Two Northwest political leaders, speaking 180 miles apart, sharply criticized both the local impacts and global implications of the proposed creation of export terminals in Washington and Oregon that would move huge quantities of coal to China.
“Coal trains would be a disaster for our city,” Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn declared in his annual state-of-the-city speech. “. . . These coal trains, each over a mile long, would disrupt our traffic and freight mobility. It would cut off our waterfront and would make it harder for first responders to get to the scene of an emergency.”
As McGinn was acting locally, Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber was thinking nationally and globally in a Portland speech to the American Wind Energy Association. “One of the largest concerns I have about coal exports out of the West Coast, in addition to all the environmental implications, is the lack of any larger federal energy policy that speaks to what this means,” said Kitzhaber.