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Exploring Prospects for U.S. Coal Exports to China
2013-04-24 18:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
World Resources Institute: The United States and China are the worlds two largest economies. They are also the two largest producers and consumers of coal, and the largest emitters of carbon dioxide. In recent years, however, their paths on coal have started to diverge. Over the last few years, coal consumption has dropped dramatically in the United States, mainly due to low natural gas prices. In response to weak domestic demand, the U.S. coal industry has been rushing to find its way out to the international market....
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Serbia's unabated quest for coal causes tremors among mining communities
2013-04-24 13:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Vitomir Simic, 53, points at the faded, black and white photograph of his parents, still hanging on the wall of the home he abandoned in Radljevo, a village south-west of Belgrade, Serbia. Its modest frame hides only an inch of the giant fractures that ripped open the walls of the house where he was born, and forced him and his three children to flee. Simic works nearby in the Kolubara coal mine, helping to maintain the giant excavators that gouge the earth day and night. This relentless quest...
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Australian coal exports are not needed: Greenpeace steps in to halt coal
2013-04-24 09:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Greenpeace: Greenpeace has campaigned against the expansion of coal exports from Queensland, through the Great Barrier Reef, using every legitimate means we can to stop them going ahead. Weve made detailed submissions, weve triggered Departmental inquiries, weve used Freedom of Information to expose holes in assessments, weve helped 25,000 people make submissions to processes, weve published full page advertisements and weve written large on a beach our call to protect the Reef from coal. All to no...
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Greenpeace activists board Australian coal ship in reef protest
2013-04-24 08:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Six Greenpeace activists boarded a coal ship bound for South Korea near Australia's Great Barrier Reef on Wednesday, protesting against the expansion of the rich Australian coal industry and its impact on the World Heritage site. Environmentalists say the Great Barrier Reef, a popular tourist site worth about A$6 billion ($6.1 billion) a year to the Australia economy, is threatened by dredging, sedimentation and coal port and shipping development. UNESCO will decide in June whether the reef...
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Greenpeace activists board ship carrying Australian coal
2013-04-24 02:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Six activists from Greenpeace have boarded a coal ship leaving Australian waters in a direct action aimed at curbing coal exports. The activists, from several different countries, boarded the Korean-owned MV Meister at 7am on Wednesday. The ship is carrying thermal coal loaded from Abbot Point in Queensland. Speaking to the Guardian from on board the ship, 34-year-old Greenpeace activist Emma Giles said: "We've taken the action today because Australia is on track to almost double its coal exports...
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