Industry Articles

Over the years 2000-2010, global coal consumption increased almost 2,300 million metric tons or 50%. During the current decade coal use will expand at least another 25% (1,700 million tons).

As Washington leaders continue to debate our nation’s economic future, educated and qualified young adults here in Colorado and throughout the nation are hungry for well-paying jobs. I enrolled in the Colorado School of Mines in 2008 during an economic crisis.

Nothing in modern life so raises the standard of living of high and low income groups as the use of electricity." New York Times, 1930

It is increasingly clear that the optimistic projections relating to a global "Nuclear Renaissance" over the next several decades will not come to pass. In the aftermath of the Japanese tragedy, reviews, deferrals and outright cancellations of nuclear programs have been a persistent international trend.

President Obama claims to see the need to create jobs at this time of endless 9-plus percent unemployment -- yet his administration continues to relentlessly destroy jobs for ideological reasons. The best example may be the Obama Environmental Protection Agency’s “war on coal.”

August 23-25, 2011 Sheraton Steamboat Resort Steamboat Springs, Colorado

Last week's issue utilized the regulatory concept of prudence in assessing the risks associated with basing upwards of 85% of our new electricity generating capacity on the assumption that shale gas will be plentiful and cheap.

At 68 and nearing retirement, Joel Christman did what a lot of people do as their careers wind to a close. He took stock of his work life.

Regulatory commissions throughout the United States have developed standards of prudence in assessing the efficacy of energy planning decisions. This widely accepted doctrine dismisses decisions based on chronologically constrained data, untested hypotheses, guesses and wishful thinking.