Low gas prices strip 80mt of US consumption

摘要

the abundance of cheap natural gas in the US has cost the coal industry some 80mt in lost consumption this year, according to Arch Coal's Deck Sloane, senior vice president of strategy and public policy.Speaking at the IHS McCloskey Coal USA Conference in New York, Sloane was optimistic about the future for coal both at home and abroad despite a bleak market under pressure from low gas prices and low international coal prices.