Coal – Mar 11
China building huge coal-to-liquids plant at Ningxia
TXU plans 2 ‘clean coal’ power plants
Japan OKs record coal price
Howard gifts $100mil for ‘clean coal’
U.S. Opposes Canadian Coal Mine
Coal
Coal – Mar 5
There’s change in the air at Drax
Industry closes anti-coal website
Sasol cools on South African imposts
Gujarat power plants may triple coal imports
Dethroning King Coal
Coal plants get burned
As concerns mount about climate change, getting new coal-fired plants built is harder than ever for US businesses.
Coal and TXU – Feb 28
How environmentalists shaped TXU deal
NYT:
A green deal on coal
Top scientist seeks halt on coal plants
Coal: turnaround at TXU
Wall Street adds climate change to bottom line
TXU accepts $45B takeover; buyers made environmental pledge
TXU’s emissions U-turn shocks power industry
A battle over how to build new US coal plants
Coal – Feb 21
Light at end of tunnel for British coal-mining
Court stops Texan coal plants fast-track
Cleaner Coal Is Attracting Some Doubts
Activists stopping coal loading
Fossil fuels – Feb 20
CERA: High rig costs, tight labor markets to support gas prices
Cambodia: The world’s newest petrol-state
Increasing oil sands production
Coal plant in Subic Bay opposed
Coal – Feb 17
U.N. OKs CO2 injection into ocean floor
Coal can’t be clean – Flannery
Montana must turn coal from black to ‘green’
Rival firms dispute coal gasification
British Columbia goes green
Green changes sweeping British Columbia
Plan to make B.C. the continent’s greenest
Will be acid test for environmental concerns
New rules threaten proposed coal projects
Too timid a response (new)
Australian coal climate – Feb 12
Stop coal exports within 3 years
Howard talks nonsense about miners’ jobs
New Anvil Hill coalmine likely to get go ahead
Saving precious water at the flick of a switch
Coal to liquids – Feb 11
Biggest Chinese coal mining company plans huge coal to liquids programme
Governor calls for CTL plant funding
Victorian Minister meets Anglo on venture
C2C – the Emerging Energy Technologies Summit
The conference was a good place to see what some of the more creative thinkers (the speakers include two Nobel Laureates) see as the technology to get us out of our current mess. (Detailed report)
