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Surging energy prices are really going to hurt. What can the government actually do?

Picture this. You’re in government for the first time in more than a decade. And within six months, you’re facing a diabolical problem: skyrocketing energy prices. To your constituents, it doesn’t matter that the root cause is a war in Europe. What they’ll see is pain – electricity and gas…

The Conversation

Anthony Albanese urges national cabinet to endorse unprecedented intervention to cap coal and gas prices

As the year's end draws near, the prime minister convenes national cabinet, asking it to impose a price cap on coal and gas, fearing worse price spikes in 2023.

ABC News

Labour says it would stop Cumbria coalmine from opening

Ed Miliband vows party will seek to prevent ‘climate-destroying’ plan and if elected would deliver green jobs

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Report criticises coal price cap and says gas the real driver of power prices

"A price cap on coal is a short term political fix, not the solution it is being portrayed as, and it may actually make things worse.

Newcastle Herald

Michael Gove accused of 'vandalism' over new coal mine and blasted by Speaker

A Commons debate on the approval of the UK's first coal mine in decades descended into chaos after Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle savaged Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove for failing to provide a copy of the statement

Daily Mirror

Cumbria coal mine: empty promises of carbon capture tech have excused digging up more fossil fuel for decades

The idea that a technology called carbon capture and storage (CCS) could catch molecules of CO₂ as they emerge from the chimneys of power stations and factories has been around for more than two decades. Michael Gove, the secretary of state responsible for “levelling up” the UK’s regions, recently justified…

The Conversation

Cumbria coalmine is owned by private equity firm with Caymans base

West Cumbria Mining, which set up Whitehaven office during push for new mine, owned by EMR Capital

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Michael Gove apologises to Speaker after ‘thinnest statement ever’ on new coal mine

MICHAEL Gove has apologised to the House of Commons after the Speaker accused him of failing to follow the ministerial code when making a…

The National (Scotland)

Big energy users not holding their breath on national cabinet help amid ‘outrageous’ prices

Companies hoping, but not expecting, Albanese government can implement price caps on gas and coal

The Guardian - AU

'Burn everything': Poland chokes on the smog of war

The Tkaczuk family moved from the Polish city of Krakow to the village of Olpiny in the Carpathian foothills in 2018 in search of cleaner country air.

Reuters

West Cumbria Mining: What is coking coal and why are critics against a new mine?

This will be the first mine to open in the UK in 30 years, much to the dismay of climate change activists

Evening Standard

Commons suspended in row over Michael Gove’s Cumbria coal mine statement

‘This is not the way we do good government,’ the speaker fumed at Gove

The Independent UK

Mongolians brave bitter cold to protest 'coal theft' corruption

Mongolian protesters gathered in the capital in temperatures well below freezing on Thursday to denounce perceived government corruption for a fifth day, even after the arrests of eight officials suspected of so-called coal theft.

Reuters

'Reckless climate vandalism': Michael Gove slammed for approving new coal mine

THE Scottish Greens have said the UK Government has “bulldozed a Westminster sized hole” into its net zero commitments after approving the first…

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New Cumbria coalmine ‘like opening a Betamax factory’, says Tim Farron

Cumbrian Lib Dem MP condemns decision to give green light to Britain’s first new coalmine in 30 years

The Independent UK

Cumbria coal mine a win for the working class, claims Tory MP

Climate campaigners ‘not friends of the working class’, says Lee Anderson

Daily Mirror

Whitehaven divided as new coalmine brings 500 jobs - but is cost to climate worth it?

Nowhere is more divided than Whitehaven in Cumbria, where the mine will produce 2.8 million tonnes of coking coal a year – largely for export to other countries

The Independent UK

From dead drops to laser-spying: tradecraft through the decades

New ITVX drama A Spy Among Friends explores the incredible story of two real-life MI6 spies – Nicholas Elliott (Damian Lewis) and Kim Philby (Guy Pearce) – whose decades-long friendship fell apart when Philby was revealed to be a treacherous double agent, spilling secrets to the KGB. Here historian Guy…

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Newcastle Herald

Court asked to overturn Mt Pleasant expansion

An Upper Hunter environment group has commenced legal action to prevent the expansion of Mt Pleasant coal mine.

AAP

Action after alleged gas cartel attempt

A mining equipment and technology services company allegedly tried to establish a cartel with four other suppliers in breach of competition laws, the ACCC says.

The Guardian - UK

Could Cumbria coalmine be stopped despite government green light?

Mine could affect Britain’s climate commitments, which some believe could help get decision struck down

The Guardian - AU

NSW ‘almost ready to sign up’ to coal price cap to provide energy price relief

State’s energy minister, Matt Kean, says ‘It’s not about royalties, it’s all about consumers’, putting pressure on Queensland counterpart

Newcastle Herald

Minerals Council report says Labor price cap will fail and possibly push up power prices

Mr Galilee said the report indicated that high power prices were caused by a shortage of electricity supply and warns of a bleak winter next year due to a looming spike in global gas prices,

ABC News

Glencore pulls out of $1.5 billion Valeria coal mine project in central Queensland

Glencore says its Valeria coal project is now under review, citing concerns around global uncertainty and a commitment to reach net zero emissions by 2050.

Daily Record

UK approves first coal mine in decades in Cumbria despite climate fears

The controversial scheme, which will dig up coking coal for steel production, was green-lit by Conservative minister Michael Gove.

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