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Colombia: why coal won't wait (in English and Spanish)

Journal Article · · Energy Detente; (United States)
OSTI ID:6153365
Colombia's coal production target is 68-million tons by the year 2000, with hopes to export 10% of world thermal-coal demand. Colombia's economic commitment to coal marketing is not an option, but an imperative. There are indications that coal production in the US - bogged down by complex transportation, environmental, and other disputes - will be revitalized, partly because Colombia will be added to the list of international coal-market competitors. Some coal-industry analysts recognize that the Colombian factor could, through stimulating price competition, encourage world coal consumption. Despite monumental infrastructure requirements that will turn the area between El Cerrejon and the Caribbean Sea into one integrated complex, the government is throwing itself heart and soul back into the coal age. This issue has the Energy Detente fuel price/tax series and the principal industrial fuel prices for May 1983 for countries of the Eastern Hemisphere.
OSTI ID:
6153365
Journal Information:
Energy Detente; (United States), Journal Name: Energy Detente; (United States) Vol. 4:9; ISSN EDETD
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English and Spanish

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