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Australia: Great Barrier Reef will be smothered with silt, because coal
2014-01-31 21:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Australia`s Great Barrier Reef Marine Park - a supposedly protected natural area containing thousands of reefs, which together are visible from space and attract nearly $6 billion a year in tourism - is a pretty terrible place to dump loads of silt. But it`s happening: The federal agency that governs the reef approved plans to dump up to 3 million cubic meters of silt that will be dredged from the marine park to help carve a superhighway for tankers ferrying coal to Asia. It`s the final piece...
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Mitsubishi Corporation Constructs Coal Fired Power Plant in Mindanao, Philippines
2014-01-31 16:04:58| Grocery - Topix.net
Tokyo, Jan 31, 2014 - - Mitsubishi Corporation , together with Toshiba Plant Systems & Services Corporation , has concluded a contract with MINERGY Coal Corporation to build a thermal power plant in the Philippines.
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EPA Sets Date to Implement Coal Ash Waste Disposal Rule Revision
2014-01-31 15:47:00| Waste Age
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has set a date for this year to make final disposal rules for coal ash as a nonhazardous waste material. read more
Australia: Death by sludge, coal and climate change for Great Barrier Reef?
2014-01-31 07:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: There's a phrase environmental scientists and campaigners like to use to talk about the slow and relentless degradation and destruction of habitats and natural wonders. "Death by a thousand cuts", they call it, as small chunks of habitat are lost and environmental laws are eased or repealed. A bit of bush here for a tourism development, a stand of mangroves there for a beachside resort. An entire nature reserve for a coal mine. Sometimes, the threats come like pincer movements with all angles covered....
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Coral or coal decision looms for Australia's Great Barrier Reef
2014-01-30 08:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Australia's Great Barrier Reef watchdog is to decide by Friday whether to allow millions of cubic meters of dredged mud to be dumped near the fragile reef to create the world's biggest coal port and possibly unlock $28 billion in coal projects. A dumping permit would allow a major expansion of the port of Abbot Point for two Indian firms and Australian billionaire miner Gina Rinehart, who together have $16 billion worth of coal projects in the untapped, inland Galilee Basin. The Galilee Basin...
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