The Colombian government will present a new strategy on Wednesday to set targets for the use and management of mining royalties. The fiscal regulation policy establishes guidelines for the government…
Adriana Carvajal, the director of local energy provider Emcali, on Tuesday threatened eight hospitals in the Colombia’s southern Valle del Cauca department with legal action, if the institutions do not…
Ricardo de Jesus Martinez Torres, the brother of Colombia’s Mining and Energy Minister Hernan Martinez, was assassinated on Tuesday night while driving between Cartagena and the northern town of Turbaco,…
Colombian Mining and Energy Minister Hernan Martinez announced Monday that the government is willing to sell electricity to neighboring nation Ecuador, to help overcome current deficiencies caused by drought in…
Brazilian power company MPX Energia SA is planning to invest 3.4 billion Brazilian reals ($1.9 billion) over the next ten years to produce coal in Colombia, it said late Tuesday…
Environmental authorities in Bogota are calling for all of the capital’s residents to take part in a city-wide voluntary blackout on Monday night to cut down on wasted electricity and…
Foreign policy has been the weakest link of the 8-year Uribe administration, which has achieved little and lost a lot on several areas ranging from economics to human rights. Nonetheless,…
A delegation from the Colombian energy industry traveled to Venezuela on Monday to begin negotiations over the sale of electricity to the socialist country, which is suffering from an energy…
Colombia temporarily suspended hydroelectricity sales to Ecuador Wednesday in order to maintain sufficient water levels in its reservoirs over the dry season. The Minister for Energy and Mining Hernan Martinez…