Coal Bed Methane Pain
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This unconventional resource offers plenty of problems -- and one giant opportunity.
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XINMI, China -- Desperate to know their loved ones' fates, grieving relatives scuffled with guards yesterday at the scene of China's worst mining accident this year as rescue workers pulled more bodies out of a mine shaft choked with poison gas.
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THE word accident has been the main casualty at Waitara's Methanex plant for the last seven years.  "We have outlawed the word," says director of corporate resources Jayne Francis. "It has connotations of an act of God, of something that cannot be avoided.
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BEIJING, Oct. 21 -- Nearly 150 miners were feared killed by a gas explosion in a coal shaft in central China, the highest toll in a series of recent mine tragedies affecting the country's hard-pressed energy industry, the government said Thursday.
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BEIJING - A wall of thick smoke blocked rescuers from reaching 141 miners trapped after a gas explosion in a coalmine in northern China.
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A powerful methane gas blast has ripped through a coal mine in Kazakhstan, killing at least 23 people. Officials in Astana say there were 87 people working underground when the blast struck the
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A woman breaks down after she was told the fate of her husband, one of the miners trapped in the Chenjiashan coal mine in Tongchuan city, north China&#39;s Shaanxi province November 29.
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The Southern Ute tribeâs reservation in Colorado sits on a rich deposit of methane gas, which has allowed it to become an energy powerhouse. Yet some are wary of the tribeâs newfound clout.
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By S.J. Komarnitsky, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Mar. 9--WASILLA -- A proposed permit to allow exploratory coal drilling  around the Matanuska Valley community of Chickaloon prompted a deluge of  responses from concerned residents and others.
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Congress is intent on showing it feels your pain at the pump. The House yesterday voted 284 to 141 to pass a bill that would make gasoline price gouging a federal offense.
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At least 56 miners were killed in a coal mine gas explosion in China last night that left another 92 missing. There is only a slim chance that those missing after the blast, at the Daping mine in Henan province
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By Tim Huber CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Underground coal mines must provide up to four days of breathable air to keep miners alive in emergencies such as an explosion or a tunnel collapse, federal regulators announced Thursday.
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BEIJING  - A gas explosion ripped through a coal mine in north China&#39;s Shaanxi province, trapping 170 miners in what threatens to be the worst disaster to hit the world&#39;s biggest coal producer in recent years.
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For more than three years, Donna Tronvig of Maple Valley visited doctors to determine just what was causing a persistent burning sensation in her chest. The pain was enough at times to make her stop for rest between the car and grocery store ...
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YUBILEYNAYA MINE, Russia  - A methane explosion killed 38 people in a Siberian coal mine on Thursday, weeks after 110 miners died in a blast at a neighboring mine operated by the same company.
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The death toll from a methane blast at a Siberian coal mine on Thursday has risen to 35 with three people still missing, a spokeswoman for Russia's Emergencies Ministry said.
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The Bush Administrationâs plan to build a commercial-scale coal-fire plant that would emit no carbon dioxide Â also known as the FutureGen project Â was scratched.