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Coal mine plan divides NSW Southern Highlands community
2015-09-02 22:01:53| Steel - Topix.net
Hume Coal's proposal for a 40-square-kilometre underground mine in the New South Wales Southern Highlands has the local community deeply divided. The company, owned by the Korean steelmaker POSCO, is looking to produce 3 million tonnes of coal a year from seams up to 180 metres underground.
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As Others See It: Let the free market kill coal
2015-09-02 13:04:46| Energy - Topix.net
Coal-fired electricity is becoming ever less profitable. That's the good news - or it should be, since it gives power companies greater incentive to embrace cleaner and cheaper sources of energy.
Judge says he'll sign off on Patriot Coal asset sale
2015-09-01 19:08:18| Energy - Topix.net
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Keith Phillips said on Monday at a hearing in Richmond that he would sign off on Patriot holding an auction on Sept. 9. The bidding would be led off by the Virginia Conservation Legacy Fund, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Australia: Don't believe the hype. Coal employs fewer people than McDonald's
2015-08-28 02:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The prime minister has repeatedly said that the next election should be about jobs. He has attempted to kick-start a new economy versus environment strategy in relation to a coal mining. According to the ABS a huge 0.3% of Australians are currently employed in coal mining. If the coal industry trebled in size tomorrow it still wouldnt be enough to create jobs for the extra 101,900 people who have become unemployed since Tony Abbott became prime minister. Anyone who has ever seen an open cut...
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Coal, oil, gas: None shall pass
2015-08-21 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Herald Independent: Retired professional photographer Rick Rappaport was standing in 6 inches of water on the overcrowded floating dock, watching the drama unfold before him. The Fennica, a massive Shell icebreaker ship, was inching down Oregon`s Willamette River en route to Alaska. It threaded between Greenpeace climbers who`d suspended themselves on ropes from the St. John`s Bridge like 13 human-sized chrysalises, their yellow and red wing-like banners fluttering in the hot breeze. Beneath them, kayakers were...
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