Due to high transshipment rates at OTEKO terminal in Taman, that make coal exports unprofitable, Russian mining companies did not submit railroad applications to the port for February 2024. Thus, the exports of Russian coal through the terminal will not be performed until at least March 2024, and export rail shipments to the port in…
The European Union (EU) has “no interest” in extending the transit agreement for Russian natural gas supply to EU countries via Ukraine, EU Energy Commissioner Kadri Simson said on Thursday. The gas transit deal, with which EU members including Austria and Slovakia receive Russian gas via a route crossing Ukraine, expires at the end of…
Industries such as steel, cement, and heavy transport account for some one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), rendering breakthrough zero-carbon industrial products one of the most valuable assets of the world’s climate change portfolio. Heavy carbon emitting manufacturers all over the world are making the switch to cleaner industrial processes such as low-carbon electricity…
Border guards saw drowned people while patrolling a section of the Ukrainian-Romanian border. Border guards discovered the bodies of two men in Tisa. Most likely, they died while trying to swim across the river. The State Border Service reports this. “The drowned people were found yesterday evening in Transcarpathia while patrolling the Ukrainian-Romanian border,” the…
Russia and Ukraine have for the first time held in-person talks to exchange children displaced by the war, Moscow’s children’s rights commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova announced Wednesday. Forty-eight children are set to be exchanged under the deal agreed in Qatar, the state-run RIA Novosti news agency quoted Lvova-Belova as saying. Qatar said it mediated the Russian-Ukrainian children’s…
Nine students from the Karaganda region participated in the VI Republican Olympiad in Kazakh language and literature “Abaitanu” among students of grades 9–11 with Kazakh language of instruction, five of them took prizes, reports the akimat of the Karaganda region . The first was the tenth grader of school No. 61 Nurgasyr Izat. And four…
“Units of the Ukrainian Defense Forces … moved to new lines west of Berdichev, Semenovka and Novomikhailovka,” he wrote in his Telegram channel. According to him, the situation in the directions west of Avdeevka and Marinka is the most difficult for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. At the same time, Syrsky admitted that the Russian army…
Continued expansion in China’s coal fleet and a slowdown in plant retirements in the United States and Europe in 2023 resulted in the highest net increase in global operating coal capacity since 2016, Roman Bilousov from Enertus AG said. While the slower retirements outside China are expected to be a…
Global coal-fired power generation reached a record-high level in 2023, per data from environmental think tank Ember reported by Reuters columnist Gavin Maguire. As countries, especially in Asia, looked to meet growing electricity demand and ensure their energy security, coal use in power generation hit record highs. Per Ember data, global electricity generation from coal…
High commodity prices and rising coal exports are propelling economic growth in Mongolia, allowing the country to develop its robust mineral resources, expand its services sector, and invest in green agriculture and energy. Mongolia exported 31.7m tonnes of coal in 2022, an increase in volume of 102%, or 16m tonnes, from 2021 and an increase…