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Trump Wants Bonneville Power Administration Sell-off

Unloading the Pacific Northwest’s major power purveyor is one of thousands of ideas in the annual budget the Trump administration released late February. It’s part of a broader push by the president and his allies to privatize federal infrastructure in the name of free-market efficiency. The Tennessee Valley Authority, Southwestern Power Administration, and Western Area…

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North Dakota Coal-Fired Plant to Install CCS

The Minnkota Power Cooperative’s Milton R. Young station got a $6.0 MM grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to design a carbon capture model that would reduce the plant’s carbon emissions by 90 per cent. The project is one of seven funded by the Energy Department’s new $44.0 MM Design and Testing of Carbon…

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India Opens Coal Mining to Private Sector

India will end its 45-year state monopoly on commercial coal mining to encourage competition and raise productivity through private-sector investments. Under an auction system announced this week, the business that offers the highest sum per ton of coal to the state where a mine is located will win the mining rights. No restrictions will be…

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SDX ENERGY INC. (“SDX” or the “Company”) – Spud of LMS-1 exploration well, Morocco

  THE INFORMATION CONTAINED WITHIN THIS ANNOUNCEMENT IS DEEMED BY SDX TO CONSTITUTE INSIDE INFORMATION AS STIPULATED UNDER THE MARKET ABUSE REGULATION (EU) NO. 596/2014 (“MAR”). ON THE PUBLICATION OF THIS ANNOUNCEMENT VIA A REGULATORY INFORMATION SERVICE (“RIS”), THIS INSIDE INFORMATION IS NOW CONSIDERED TO BE IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN. LONDON, April 27, 2018 /CNW/…