Indonesia understates methane emissions from mining, report says
Methane emissions from Indonesia’s expanding coal mining sector are significantly underreported, jeopardizing the nation’s international climate commitments, according to new analysis from energy think tank Ember.
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Australian coal miner’s plans may double its methane emissions
Mining News Pro - Whitehaven Coal Ltd.’s plans to expand its mining operations could double the Australian company’s methane emissions by the end of this decade, according to an analysis from energy think tank Ember, undermining the nation’s global climate commitments.
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Congo picks Symbion to tap methane-filled lake
Mining News Pro - New York’s Symbion Power won a bid to produce electricity from methane trapped in a lake in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the country’s oil minister Didier Budimbu Ntubuanga told Bloomberg.
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Glencore expands coal mining in an Australian methane hotspot
Mining News Pro - Glencore Plc is expanding a coal mine that scientists have estimated leaks so much planet-wrecking methane each year it has the same warming impact as the annual emissions from millions of cars.
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Gold catalyst helps transform methane into methanol, acetic acid
Mining News Pro - While some researchers are proposing the idea of using a platinum catalyst to keep methane out of the atmosphere, a group of British, Chinese and American scientists demonstrated, for the first time, the direct conversion of methane into methanol and acetic acid using a gold catalyst.
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Platinum catalyst may be the key to reducing methane emissions
Mining News Pro - Researchers at Iowa State University, Purdue University and Johns Hopkins University have found and tested a catalyst technology that appears to be safe and efficient to keep methane out of the atmosphere and make use of the greenhouse gas.
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Glencore’s Australian coal mine revealed as methane super-emitter
Mining News Pro - Just inland of Australia’s east coast, roughly 200 miles from the Great Barrier Reef, a single coal mine run by Glencore Plc emitted so much super-warming methane in a year that it had the same climate warming impact as the annual pollution from more than 4 million U.S. cars.
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What G-20 leaders agreed on coal, methane, net-zero
Mining News Pro - Climate negotiators at the COP26 summit were banking on the world’s most powerful leaders to give them a boost before they embark on two weeks of fraught discussions over who should do what to slow the rise in global temperatures.
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Pure forms methane/hydrogen JV
Mining News Pro - Pure Hydrogen has inked a joint venture (JV) agreement with Synergen Met to manufacture hydrogen and carbon products.
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