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Uncertainty over massive Australian coal mine
2015-02-07 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: It was the Newman government's great hope for Queensland's economy: a proposal for Australia's biggest coal development, unprecedented in scale. Indian billionaire Gautam Adani's mammoth Carmichael mine, in central Queensland, is pledged to bring with it 10,000 jobs and $22 billion in taxes and royalties. Undoubtedly this is a project of national significance. It promises to open the vast inland Galilee Basin. To allow that to happen there is a need for a new coal rail line, hundreds of kilometres...
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France to axe coal subsidies while EU stalls
2015-02-06 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EurActiv: France has confirmed its plans to cut all export credits for the construction of coal power stations, but has not indicated when this new policy will come into force. The French Minister for Ecology, Ségolne Royal and the Prime Minister, Manuel Valls, announced the end of French aid for coal power during the presentation of their environmental roadmap for 2015, ahead of the Paris Climate Conference. Objective Paris 2015 "France will do everything it can to reach an agreement at the COP...
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Australia: Brown coal inc drives up power sector's carbon emissions
2015-02-05 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: A rebound in demand for Victorian brown coal since the end of the carbon tax continues to drive up the emissions intensity of Australia's main electricity market, energy consultants Pitt & Sherry say. The carbon emissions intensity of the National Electricity Market, supplying power to about 80 per cent of Australia's population across the eastern states, is up 3.3 per cent since the carbon price was scrapped in July. Total emissions for the year to January were 2.6 per cent higher than for...
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Clean Coal Power Plant Killed, Again
2015-02-04 16:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: The Department of Energy is terminating financing of the FutureGen 2.0 project, ending construction plans for one of the most expensive and high-profile carbon capture proposals in the world. In a statement yesterday, FutureGen Alliance CEO Ken Humphreys said that DOE decided to suspend planned funds for the "clean" coal plant because there is not enough time to complete the project before a required deadline under the 2009 federal stimulus package. DOE had pledged $1 billion to complete the $1.65...
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Missouri Supreme Court Orders New Hearing on Ameren Coal Ash Lawsuit
2015-02-04 06:29:00| Waste Age
<a href="http://www.stltoday.com/>St. Louis Post-Dispatch</a> Ameren Missouris planned coal ash landfill in Franklin County faces more uncertainty after a ruling Tuesday by the states highest court. read more
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