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This country is embracing coal while the rest of the world is trying to cut emissions
2016-04-03 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: Scotland just closed its last coal-fired power plant. England said it will be coal-free in the next decade. The United States has the Clean Power Plan, which doesn`t exactly end coal, but it puts a pretty hefty damper on it. Even China has made a series of announcements signaling they are dropping coal. Japan, on the other hand, is planning to build 45 domestic coal plants, and the Japanese foreign investment bank is considering financing a massive project in Indonesia. As host of the next G7...
Australia: Decision on coal mine 'defies reason'
2016-04-03 12:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Age: The decision on Sunday to approve mining leases for Queensland's Carmichael coal mine is akin to "evil", according to one of the world's foremost marine scientists. "It defies reason," said Dr Charlie Veron, former chief scientist at the Australian Institute of Marine Science. "I think there is no single action that could be as harmful to the Great Barrier Reef as the Carmichael coal mine." The $21.7 billion project, which involves mine, rail and port facilities, would allow Indian multinational...
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Mega India-backed coal project awarded Australia mining leases
2016-04-03 01:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: A controversial India-backed giant coal project near Australia's Great Barrier Reef was Sunday awarded mining leases, but developer Adani said it would not commit to a final investment decision until legal challenges against it were resolved. The Queensland state government said the Aus$21.7 billion (US$16.7 billion) project to build one of the world's biggest mines was awarded three leases. "This is a major step forward for this project after extensive government and community scrutiny," Queensland...
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Ted Cruz's climate-denial hearing attracts cash from coal king Bob Murray
2016-04-02 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Intercept: AS NEGOTIATORS from around the world gathered in Paris last December to draft an agreement to slow down climate change, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz was holding a hearing in Washington, D.C., to highlight the work of climate skeptics. The hearing allowed Cruz to rail about suppression of dissent, driven politically by global warming alarmists and equate the widely accepted science of climate change with partisan claims that run contrary to the science and data and evidence. Cruz was ridiculed in...
Backer of proposed coal port stops work amid Lummi Tribe concerns
2016-04-02 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The sponsor of a proposed Washington state coal port for shipments of the fuel to Asia is suspending work on an environmental review because of a Native American tribes concerns that the project could hurt its fishing rights. SSA Marine, which retains a 51 percent ownership of the project, said Friday it was halting the environmental review while it waits for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to make a decision on the treaty rights of the Lummi Tribe. The Puget Sound port just south of the U.S.-Canada...
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