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China's Shenhua drains groundwater for coal project-Greenpeace
2013-07-23 10:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A project operated by China's largest coal miner, Shenhua Group, has reduced groundwater levels in a region of Inner Mongolia and discharged high levels of toxic wastewater, environmental campaign group Greenpeace said on Tuesday. The report, the first by Greenpeace to single out and publicly challenge one of China's powerful state-owned companies, comes as the country's new leadership steps up its focus on pollution amid growing protests over environmental degradation. China recently canceled...
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Greenpeace reveals Chinese state coal company's ruthless water grab
2013-07-23 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Greenpeace: A state-owned Chinese coal company is overexploiting groundwater and illegally dumping toxic industrial wastewater, highlighting the need to curb the country's burgeoning coal industry, Greenpeace East Asia has revealed. In the report 'Thirsty Coal 2' [1], Greenpeace East Asia reveals that the Shenhua Group, the world's biggest coal producer by volume, is exploiting water resources in Inner Mongolia at a shocking scale. Shenhua's operations have sparked social unrest and caused severe ecological...
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UK Coal safety record criticised
2013-07-23 01:25:07| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
UK Coal warned about safety risks at Daw Mill Colliery several months before a major fire, the BBC's File on 4 reports.
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Without a coal turnaround, analysts look for CSX 'game changer'
2013-07-22 19:32:21| Railroads - Topix.net
As CSX Corp. goes through something of a transition, learning to rely less on coal shipments to build profits, analysts still are fixated on how the coal markets will impact the Jacksonville-based railroad's earnings.
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Consumers to pay dirty coal power subsidies for years
2013-07-22 01:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Britains dirtiest coal power stations are to be allowed to bid for hundreds of millions of pounds worth of subsidies that could allow them to stay open well into the 2020s. Senior ministers are so worried about the possibility that the UK could suffer electricity blackouts over the next few years they have agreed to let Britains coal stations bid for capacity payment handouts paid for through peoples energy bills which could allow them to upgrade their facilities. If successful, the money...
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