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Coral vs. coal
2016-05-27 15:07:53| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Tim Flannery, a scientist and environmentalist who was named Australian of the Year in 2007, lost his job in 2013. The right-wing government of then-Prime Minister Tony Abbott shut down the Climate Commission that Flannery headed in a peremptory move designed to demonstrate its contempt for climate change. The commission had been established two years earlier to provide authoritative information to the Australian public. Abbott, of the conservative Liberal Party, had no time for such information....
Engie considering closure or sale of Australian coal plant
2016-05-26 14:07:01| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: French gas and power group Engie said it is considering the closure or sale of its Hazelwood coal-fired plant in Australia as part of its strategy to exit the fossil fuel. Chief Executive Isabelle Kocher told a French Senate committee on Wednesday that following the sale of two coal plants in Indonesia and India, coal would represent about 10 percent of its energy mix and that the utility planned a gradual exit from coal in the coming years. "For the Hazelwood plant, we are studying all possible...
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Sweden and Germany must keep Vattenfalls coal in the ground
2016-05-26 11:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Vattenfall, a EURbillion energy company 100% owned by Sweden, plans to sell some of the EUs most polluting coal plants and mines in Germany to Czech company EPH. On Tuesday, the Swedish parliament debated the deal. Government is expected to decide whether or not to approve it before the end of the summer. Having emerged as a world leader from the Paris negotiation in December of last year, this issue is set to test and define Swedens international reputation on the environment. It remains...
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China to replace direct coal combustion with electricity in new plan
2016-05-25 10:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: China will reduce the amount of coal burned directly in industrial furnaces and residential heating systems in order to tackle a major source of smog, the country's energy regulator said on Wednesday. The National Energy Administration (NEA) said in a joint announcement with other government bodies that around 700 million to 800 million tonnes of coal is burned directly in China every year, much of it in the countryside, where access to electricity is limited. Directly burned coal amounts to...
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Sweden urged to block Vattenfall coal plant sale
2016-05-24 22:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Opposition lawmakers call on state-owned utility to shut down polluting coal assets in Germany, instead of selling them to Czech firm EPH Lignite, or brown coal, is cheap but particularly dirty to by The fate of some of the EU`s most polluting assets is in the hands of the Swedish government. It will decide imminently whether to give the go-ahead to state-owned utility Vattenfall to sell its German lignite mines and plants to Czech firm EPH. Lawmakers from the opposition Liberals and Left...
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