Kazakhstan doesn’t plan to increase coal production till 2030
Edited by Rhod Mackenzie / 2014-05-27 01:52:32
Kazakhstan doesn’t plan to increase the coal production till 2030, Kazakh Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Industry and New Technologies Asset Issekeshev said at a briefing in Astana on Tuesday.
"As for the coal industry, we have a rather conservative approach: last year we produced 112 million tons and we plan to stay in the corridor of 100-120 million tons by 2030," - he said.
Isekeshev explained that such production forecast is connected with the fact that "coal will remain a major resource for thermoelectric power stations in Kazakhstan till 2030, but at the same time our export to Russia begins to decline".
