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Abbott tells G20 leaders he backs coal despite pleas on climate change
2014-11-16 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Tony Abbott has told a G20 leaders discussion on energy he was standing up for coal as the Queensland government prepares to unveil new infrastructure spending to help the development of Australias largest coal mine. Abbott opened the closed-door discussion on energy on Sunday morning by telling the world leaders that as the worlds largest producer of coal, Id like to stand up for coal, sources told Guardian Australia. Several leaders, including the French president, François...
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As US reduces coal use, developer in rural Georgia tries building coal-fired power plant
2014-11-15 18:02:46| Energy - Topix.net
Deep in rural Georgia, a developer is betting he can build one of the last new coal-fired power plants in the United States as the rest of the country moves away from the fuel. The project, which is being developed by Allied Energy Services, is an outlier.
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A Scourge for Coal Miners Stages a Brutal Comeback
2014-11-11 16:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: In August, when former GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney visited West Virginia to campaign for Republican U.S. Senate candidate Shelley Moore Capito, the Democrat in the race was quick to remind voters what Romney had said a decade earlier about the coal industry. I will not create jobs or hold jobs that kill people, and that plant that plant kills people, Romney had said in 2003, standing outside a Massachusetts coal-fired power plant that was facing new environmental controls. The Democratic...
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Several coal cars in Canadian Pacific Railway freight off tracks in Alberta
2014-11-11 01:33:55| Railroads - Topix.net
Several cars in a Canadian Pacific Railway freight have derailed in southern Alberta - the second accident in the region involving a CP train in less than a week. Salem Woodrow, a company spokesman, says in a statement that 18 cars loaded with coal left the tracks around 8:30 p.m. Sunday east of Lundbreck.
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Rich countries subsidising oil, gas and coal companies by $88bn a year
2014-11-11 01:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Rich countries are subsidising oil, gas and coal companies by about $88bn (55.4bn) a year to explore for new reserves, despite evidence that most fossil fuels must be left in the ground if the world is to avoid dangerous climate change. The most detailed breakdown yet of global fossil fuel subsidies has found that the US government provided companies with $5.2bn for fossil fuel exploration in 2013, Australia spent $3.5bn, Russia $2.4bn and the UK $1.2bn. Most of the support was in the form of tax...
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