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How to ensure the world's largest pumped-hydro dam isn't a disaster for Queensland's environment

To quit coal and move to renewables, we need large-scale energy storage. That’s where pumped hydro comes in. Queensland’s ambitious new plan involves shifting from a coal-dominated electricity grid to 80% renewables within 13 years, using 22 gigawatts of new wind and solar. The plan relies on two massive new…

The Conversation

Emissions rise with bumper gas, coal sales

Australia is sending record fuel shipments to a world cut off from Russian gas and boosting secure supplies of critical minerals needed for new energy sources.

AAP

India lags in biomass co-firing targets

This recalcitrance by power manufacturers has prompted the government to consider cutting coal supply to non-compliant plants

The Hindu

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Carrying coals from Newcastle's past

Topics: Carrying coals and counting chickens.

Newcastle Herald

While changes are taking place to develop industries beyond Bengaluru, there is a need to fast-track them, says Union Minister Joshi

Union Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Coal and Mines Pralhad Joshi said that while changes were happening to develop industries ‘Beyond Benglauru’, there was need for fast-tracking the changes in tune with the pace of technological advancements and developments across the globe.

The Hindu

Fossil fuels in schools: industry faces pushback in fight for hearts and minds of next generation

Business efforts to get pro-fossil fuel material into classrooms experience opposition due to role in climate change

The Guardian - AU

Supreme Court leaves Don Blankenship conviction in place

The Supreme Court says it won’t review the conviction of former coal CEO Don Blankenship, who was convicted of conspiring to violate safety standards at West Virginia’s Upper Big Branch mine before the 2010 explosion that killed 29 men

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India's coal production rises 12% in September

Dispatch of coal also went up marginally by 1.95% to 61.18 MT in September

The Hindu

Why Colorado’s Western Slope likely remains Lauren Boebert country, despite a string of controversies

CRAIG, Colo. — Steam rises from the coal-fired Craig Station power plant, pickup trucks filter in and out of the Trapper Mine southwest of town and Bob Seger drifts over the radio waves.

The Denver Post

Blackout fears dismissed as power station in WA taken offline amid uncertainty over coal supply

The WA government talks down the prospect of summer blackouts after the energy regulator asked that a power station be switched off to conserve coal supplies.

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Tangedco seeks clarity in norms for blending imported coal with domestic coal

Central Electricity Regulatory Commission allowed generation companies to blend domestic coal with up to 20% of alternative sources without permission from beneficiaries

The Hindu

What’s happening with the climate crisis and heat-trapping emissions in Australia

What is Australia’s contribution to the climate emergency, and how successfully is it acting to address it?

The Guardian - AU

Loy Yang A power station's early closure prompts Latrobe Valley locals to ponder their future

The identity of Victoria's Latrobe Valley is firmly rooted in its history as a centre of coal-fired power, but plans to shut the Loy Yang A power station early have locals questioning where to from here.

ABC News

Aussie coal sales top $100 billion a year as industry surges despite green fears

Coal use and prices up despite green worries

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Neglected underground coal fires threaten lives of Zimbabweans

Residents of the Hwange area are living in fear after state-run mining company’s failure to put out raging blazes.

The Hindu

SCCL action plan to ramp up production

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US shift away from coal hits tribal community in New Mexico

The lights are out at a coal-fired power plant in northwestern New Mexico that has provided electricity to millions of people across the southwestern U.S. for nearly a half-century

The Guardian - AU

Four state scandals that show what a federal anti-corruption commission could uncover

From Eddie Obeid to ‘Mr Ipswich’, state anti-corruption bodies have already shown how they can hold the powerful to account

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Peter Dutton 3.0: can the Coalition hard man change voters’ minds by pasting on a smile?

After two decades in politics, rebranding might not be as easy as putting on a friendly face and presenting as someone new

The Guardian - AU

Queensland’s renewable energy plan confirms the politics of coal have changed for good

Most now see opportunity instead of job losses – but Labor will have to match ambition with action if it’s to deliver on 80% renewables by 2035

Reuters

Deep underground, Mexican coal miners remember those who never came back

Each time Juan Briones descends deep into the ground of northern Mexico to dig for coal he knows he must balance earning a living and avoiding death.

ABC News

Australia's great energy transition reaches a 'tipping point' as clock winds forward for coal

Everywhere you looked over the past few days it seemed the super-charged transition from coal-fired power to renewable energy was on display. So what's next?

The Guardian - AU

Winds of ‘radical change’: Queensland breaks up with coal in stunning week in energy

Annastacia Palaszczuk promised to ditch coal by 2035, leaving experts ‘gobsmacked’ given the state’s deep association with the fossil fuel

The Conversation

So long, Loy Yang: shutting Australia’s dirtiest coal plant a decade early won’t jeopardise our electricity supply

AGL Energy – Australia’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases – announced this week it will shut the Loy Yang A power station in Victoria’s LaTrobe Valley in 2035, a decade earlier than planned.

ABC News

Queensland's clean energy transition plan sparks fears for communities built on coal

For 36 years Ashley Cook has worked at a coal mine in regional Queensland, taking pride in his highly skilled dragline operator job. He's concerned about what the state government's energy plan could mean for communities like his.

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