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2010 Board of Directors

Coal Suppliers

Tim Whelan
Vice President Sales
Alliance Coal LLC (2008-2010)

Mark Canon
Vice President Sales
Arch Coal Sales (2009-2011)
Membership Chair 2010

Mike Kelley
Director Sales & Marketing
Cloud Peak Energy (2010-2012)

Coal Consumers

Jeff Wallace
Vice President Fuel Services
Southern Company (2008 – 2010)
ACC President 2010

Caryl M. Pfieffer
Director Corporate Fuels & Byproducts
E.ON U.S. (2009-2011)

Charles Matthews
Vice President Wholesale Energy & Fuels
Wisconsin Electric Power Company (2010-2012)

Energy Traders

Matt Levar
Director Coal Marketing
EDF Trading (2009-2011)

Harry Papadopoulos
Portfolio Director Coal & Emissions
NRG Energy (2010-2012)

Transportation

Mike Brashier
Manager of Utility Sales
& Specialty Contracts
AEP River Operations (2009-2010)

Louis M. Muldrow
Director Coal Sales & Marketing
CSX Transportation (2009-2011)

Doug Glass
Vice President &
General Manager Energy
Union Pacific (2010-2012)

Coal Support Services

Scott Hutter
President & CEO
Martin Engineering (2008-2010)
President-elect 2011, Treasurer 2010, Chair HR & Compensation 2010

David Smercina
Sr. Vice President & Business Manager
SGS North America (2009-2011)

Scott Stallard
Vice President Asset
Management Services
Black & Veatch (2009)

Past President

Steve Miller
President
COALTRADE, LLC (2010)
ACC President 2009

Thank You Editorial Review Board

  • David Byford, Dynegy, Inc.
  • Jennifer Cannon, APS
  • Rick Felde, Martin Engineering
  • Trygve Gaalaas, Hawk Consulting
  • Janet Gellici, American Coal Council
  • Jason Hayes, American Coal Council
  • Beth Sutton, Peabody Energy

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Export Opportunities Booming for American Coal Producers

By Brooklyn Guillory, Argus Media Ltd.

Emerging markets

The US has developed into a crucial base supplier of coal to European, South American and Asian markets hungry for reliable and competitively priced tonnage. The shift differs from other recent export booms, when coking coal fueled the surge. Now, demand for US steam coal is jumping, even as new environmental rules make generators here look to alternative energy sources.

More and more South African coal is headed to Asia, raising prices for that supply and encouraging European generators to seek alternatives from Central Appalachia and the Illinois Basin. Meanwhile, US producers including Peabody Energy, [...]

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 Mongolia

Energy Riches Attract Neighbors and Outside Interests

By John C.K. Daly, Oilprice.com

Pity poor Mongolia, bereft of fiscal resources, caught between the ambitions of its superpower neighbors, Russia and China.

Ulaan Bator’s situation is akin to interwar Poland, dexterously attempting to reconcile its foreign policy between the USSR’s hammer and Nazi Germany’s hard place. Who will ultimately benefit is anyone’s guess, but the country’s nascent energy and mineralogical riches have opened the land of Genghis Khan to a fierce bidding war whose ultimate outcome is unclear at best.

The nation is essentially empty, its 2.8 million citizens producing an average population density of just [...]

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The COAL Hard Facts: ‘Old King Coal’ is Still King Can America get its fiscal house in order or could it fall into bankruptcy?

By Wayne T. Rutherford, Pike County (Kentucky) Judge/Executive

Editor’s note: In previous editions of American Coal magazine, we have sought your input as a means of promoting ACC publications as a community of readers. We value your input and comment and would love to hear from you as well. So with this issue, we’re introducing a Comment section that will feature articles submitted by our readers on issues that impact their daily lives. We felt it was important to print this [...]

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