Drummond dispute suspension of shipping license
The U.S.-based Drummond Company is claiming that the recent suspension of its shipping licence by the Colombian government is a violation of its legal rights.
The U.S.-based Drummond Company is claiming that the recent suspension of its shipping licence by the Colombian government is a violation of its legal rights.
According to the United Nations, large-scale coal mining in northern Colombia has contributed to increased poverty, the Spanish EFE news agency reported Friday.
Colombia’s Cerrejon mining conglomerate announced Monday that production at its coastal coal site fell to 36.3 million tons in 2013, a 4.6% decrease from 38.1 million tons of the previous…
Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos sent his environment minister to the Caribbean coast to make sure US coal giant Drummond halts the loading of coal onto ships until it is…
Construction of a proposed Pacific rail line, which would increase China’s access to Colombia’s coal resources, is still under negotiation, according to China’s ambassador to Colombia, Zhou Quan.
Colombia’s environmental authority fined US coal giant Drummond for $3.5 million on Thursday for the miner’s dumping of more than 2000 tons of coal in the Caribbean Sea near the…
In another attack on Colombia’s energy infrastructure, alleged guerrilla fighters detonated an explosive device Tuesday, damaging a train carrying coal from the Carrejon open-pit mine in the northeast state of…
Strikes have caused Colombia’s forecast coal output for 2013 to drop, according to local media reports on Tuesday, putting a dent in the country’s second most exported commodity after oil…
A series of extended work stoppages this year in Colombia’s coal-mining sector have meant losses of close to $250 million for the industry and the country, according to economists.