Kent Exploration Inc (TSX VENTURE:KEX) (“Kent” or the “Company”) reports that, effective immediately, its Company information will be made available via Standard & Poor’s Market Access Program, an information distribution service that enables subscribing publicly traded companies to have their company information disseminated to users Read more

Harris Exploration, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: HXPN) advises shareholders it has authorized a Letter of Intent with Minera Cristal of Ecuador, regarding the opportunity to acquire up to a 100% position in their Balsapamba property, located in the Bolivar Province, Ecuador, South America.

Initial corporate due-diligence indicates a positive metallurgy structure of both precious and base metals. Due-diligence of recent documented activity is currently underway. Upon positive conclusion of this document inspection and verification, the Company has proposed to conclude on this agreement within the next several days. Read more

Analyst Scott Hanold of RBC Capital Markets downgrades Brigham Exploration Company (BEXP.NAS) from “outperform” to “sector perform.” The target price has been reduced from $12 to $9.

In a research note published yesterday, the analyst mentions that two of the company’s high potential wells, Green Ranch #1 and Williams Land #1, have Read more

West African Diamonds plc, a diamond mining and exploration company that has acquired assets in Sierra Leone and Guinea from African Diamonds plc, has listed on the London Stock Exchange’s Alternative Investment Market Alternative Investment Market (AIM) since early January. Its stock ticker is WAD. The company raised US$5.2 million upon admission. Read more

It isn’t the Great Wall or the Three Gorges Dam, but the launch last month of China’s most robust—and efficient—coal-fired power plant was hailed as a critical feat. Make that “ultra-supercritical”: that’s the name for the technology behind the next-generation 1,000-megawatt electricity plant located near the city of Wenzhou, in bustling, coastal Zhejiang Province. The $2.3 billion plant, which abuts the East China Sea, employs energy-saving “clean coal” technology. Because its hulking boilers can heat steam to 600 degrees Read more

The president of the Texas Association of Business made a stop in College Station on Friday as part of a statewide tour to promote coal-based energy.

The pro-business organization, of which TXU is a member, included Brazos County on the 20-stop tour in part because of a proposal for a coal-fueled power plant in nearby Robertson County that has so far generated only controversy. Read more