SUEK TO BOOST INVESTMENT IN KUZBASS MINES 25 percent IN 2008, PLANS METHANE PROJECT AT KIROV MINE

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Siberian Coal Energy Company (SUEK) plans to boost investment in its Kuznetsk basin (Kuzbass, Kemerovo region) mines 25 percent this year to around 5.5 billion rubles, Aman Tuleyev, the Kemerovo region's governor, said during the signing of a cooperation agreement with Russia's biggest coal company on February 16. The amount will include 650 million rubles for work safety and.230 million rubles for social programs. Vladimir Rashevsky, SUEK's general director, said that SUEK's Ku2bass mines aimed to produce 33 million tonnes of coal in 2008, up from 29 million tonnes in 2007. One of them, Yegozovskaya, will mine its last remaining coal this year.