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18 Chinese miners killed in underground gas leak
Dec 05, 2020 (AFP)
Twenty-four miners were caught up in the accident at the Diaoshuidong mine in the city of Chongqing after the gas leak occurred on Friday, state broadcaster CCT...
Romania's mining heartland faces up to post-coal future
Dec 03, 2020 (AFP)
"I found this job interesting because you retire faster, when you reach 45 years old," Liviu tells AFP before descending 400 metres underground in an elevator d...
Coal under increasing financial pressure: activists
Dec 02, 2020 (AFP)
The fourth annual scorecard by the Insure Our Future campaign found that insurers around the world continue to retreat from coal, which is having a tangible tan...
India's love affair with coal cools as pressure grows on sector
Nov 24, 2020 (AFP)
Research was released showing a drop in investment days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi reaffirmed the country's commitment to exceeding its targets under th...
China's new coal plants risk 2060 climate target: researchers
Nov 20, 2020 (AFP)
A new report published by the Helsinki-based Center for Research on Energy and Clean Air warned that overcapacity of existing plants and new ones being built me...
New tool predicts geological movement and the flow of groundwater in old coalfields
Nov 18, 2020 (SPX)
The tool uses satellite radar imagery to capture millimetre-scale measurements of changes in terrain height. Such measurements can be used to monitor and foreca...
India-crewed ships with Australian coal stuck at Chinese ports: union
Nov 11, 2020 (AFP)
Australia-China tensions had been deteriorating in recent years and worsened further when Canberra supported calls for an independent inquiry into the origins o...
Japan's Toshiba retreats from coal-fired power stations
Nov 11, 2020 (AFP)
"We still have ongoing projects, but we have decided to withdraw from building new coal-powered plants," company spokeswoman Yoko Takagi told AFP. Toshiba, whic...
Last major Aussie bank ditches coal, in fresh blow to sector
Oct 29, 2020 (AFP)
The bank said that from 2030 it would no longer finance thermal coal mines or coal-fired power stations, joining Australia's other "big four" banks who have alr...
Australia seeks answers on reported Chinese coal 'ban'
Oct 13, 2020 (AFP)
Trade Minister Simon Birmingham said he had asked via diplomatic channels whether China had instructed its companies to stop buying Australian coal -- a busines...
'Two-headed beast': China's coal addiction erodes climate goals
Sep 27, 2020 (AFP)
The fossil fuel has powered China's economic surge over the last thirty years, and the nation burns about half the coal used globally each year. Between 2000 an...
German villagers take coal fight to highest court
Sep 09, 2020 (AFP)
The 36 plaintiffs argue that the demolition of five villages to enlarge the Garzweiler II brown coal mine in North Rhine-Westphalia state violates their constit...
Britain rejects new coal mine on environmental grounds
Sep 09, 2020 (AFP)
Family-owned Banks Mining Group had sought to build the facility at Highthorn in Northumberland, sparking outcry from environmentalists who complained it was to...
Fight over future of UK coal as last big mine shuts
Aug 19, 2020 (AFP)
The Bradley mine, in County Durham, northeast England, ceased operations on Monday, after owner, the Banks Group, recently shuttered two other mines in the regi...
BHP signals shift away from coal as profits dip
Aug 17, 2020 (AFP)
The company reported annual net profit of just under US$8 billion, versus US$8.3 billion in the year before. Recently installed chief executive Mike Henry noted...
To end King Coal's reign, must his most loyal subjects get paid
Aug 03, 2020 (SPX)
Governments should be prepared to pay billions of pounds to operators of coal-fired power plants in agreements to shut down their plants early, a new paper publ...
Mine expansion threatens German villages despite coal exit
Jul 26, 2020 (AFP)
"It's psychological terror. The L277 was the last road which separated us from the mine. It was our red line, our border," 29-year-old David Dresen, a resident ...
Aussie student in landmark climate change lawsuit against government
Jul 22, 2020 (AFP)
The lawsuit filed in the Federal Court on Wednesday alleges Australia's economy and reputation will be significantly impacted by the government's response to cl...
Japan to limit financing of overseas coal power plants
Jul 09, 2020 (AFP)
The move comes with the world's third-largest economy under fire for financing projects to build coal plants at home and abroad -- notably in Southeast Asia. Ec...
Siemens shifts away from coal as it wins spin-off backing
Jul 09, 2020 (AFP)
Days after Germany agreed to end use of coal-fired power generation by 2038, the conglomerate's chief executive Joe Kaeser underlined plans to shift its divisio...
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