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Gautam Adani becomes world’s third-richest person as wealth surges

NEW DELHI: Few outside of India had heard of Gautam Adani just a few years ago. Now the businessman, a college dropout who first tried his luck as a diamond trader before turning to coal, has become the world’s third-richest person.

The Times of India

'Matter of national destiny': China’s energy crisis sees the world’s top emitter investing in more coal

Two months of scorching heatwaves and drought plunged China into an energy security crisis.

The Conversation

Coal power plant closure ‘postponed to ward off winter blackouts’

The National Grid has already made deals with Drax and EDF to keep open two units each from October to the end of March

The Independent UK

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Greens push for authority to help coal and gas workers through energy transition

Penny Allman-Payne says body would combat climate scare campaigns by giving workers a secure future

The Guardian - AU

Closure of coal power station set to be delayed to prevent UK blackouts

Under deal, German owner of Nottinghamshire station would be paid a fee to pause decommissioning

The Guardian - UK

Mexico's president revived dangerous form of coal mining

Hopes have faded of rescuing 10 men trapped by a flood in a Mexican coal mine this month

The Independent UK

Wangan and Jagalingou traditional owners use human rights law to occupy Bravus's Carmichael Coal Mine

After a series of failed legal challenges and their native title being extinguished, a group of Wangan and Jagalingou traditional owners are using a human rights act to occupy land at Bravus's Carmichael Coal mine in central Queensland.

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Locals in regional Queensland town Oakey are divided over plans to reopen New Acland thermal coal mine

The New Hope mining company pushed for 14 years to expand the New Acland mine near the Queensland town of Oakey. Now it's been approved, but some locals say they'll fight it "like a mongrel dog".

ABC News

'Are we kidding ourselves here': frustration as Port tries to break out of coal box

It may be the world's largest coal export port, with ships being loaded around the clock, but Port of Newcastle is hoping to move beyond the black rock box and diversify what is carried in and out of the harbour.

Newcastle Herald

In Poland, where coal is king, homeowners queue for days to buy fuel

In Poland's late summer heat, dozens of cars and trucks line up at the Lubelski Wegiel Bogdanka coal mine, as householders fearful of winter shortages wait for days and nights to stock up on heating fuel in queues reminiscent of communist times.

Reuters

Hunter coal producers earning billions as prices hit new record highs

Newcastle coal prices hit $660 a tonne

Newcastle Herald

‘Completely laughable’: claims that a mine will create ‘more jobs per hectare’ than the Great Barrier Reef derided

Clive Palmer’s Central Queensland Coal suggested proposed coalmine is a ‘greater economic powerhouse’

The Guardian - AU

Letters: Why didn't the Coalition help the Port of Newcastle sooner

Newcastle Herald readers have their say

Newcastle Herald

Germany promotes Baltic Sea's 'enormous' energy potential

Germany’s foreign minister says estimates show the Baltic Sea can produce “more than twice the installed capacity of all German coal-fired power stations” as the country works to meet climate change targets and to wean itself off of Russia-supplied energy

The Independent UK

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Evening Standard

Best wood burning stoves to get a roaring log fire going

Smarter, greener and cheaper; say hello to the new wave of wood-burning stoves

WEKU

Drought threatens coal plant operations — and electricity — across the West

The Western drought and shrinking Colorado River basin threaten operations at the region's coal plants. With a looming risk of blackouts, it's unclear who is overseeing this threat on the ground.

The Guardian - AU

Queensland resources minister approves expansion of New Acland coalmine

New Hope prepares to resume mining operations near Oakey as it seeks water licence, while local landowners respond with dismay

The Hindu

High court calls Meghalaya ‘game’ on coal

The State government was given seven days to indicate the quantities of coal mined up to 2016 lying in all the specified sites

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Mining leases for New Hope Group's Darling Downs coal mine get Queensland government approval

After a decade of campaigning, stage three of the Acland coal mine is one step closer but water licences are still needed for the expansion to go ahead.

AAP

Qld's New Acland coal mine leases approved

Stage three of southern Queensland's New Acland coal mine is "just one step away" after the state's resources minister granted the project's mining leases.

ABC News

Wollongong Resources eyes Russell Vale coal mine extension after South32 shelves Dendrobium plan

If approved an extension to the Russell Vale coal mine will see the company continue to build its workforce in the Illawarra region as production increases, chief executive says.

Newcastle Herald

Work starting to fill abandoned mine voids under Newcastle Art Gallery

Thousands of cubic metres worth of grout will be injected into abandoned mine voids under the Newcastle Art Gallery site, before the facility's $40 million expansion takes place.

Bangkok Post

TPIPP sets aside B10bn for capex

SET-listed TPI Polene Power Plc (TPIPP), Thailand's largest waste-to-energy power plant developer and operator by capacity, is allocating capital spending worth almost 10 billion baht between the second half of this year and 2023 to develop two new facilities and use more refuse-derived fuel to replace coal, which is still…

Reuters

Relatives say reject Mexico's 6-11 month plan to find trapped miners

Family members of 10 miners who have been trapped in a flooded coal mine in northern Mexico for three weeks said on Thursday they rejected a government plan to find the miners that they said officials described as lasting from six to 11 months.

Mic

Harvey Weinstein was found guilty of more rape charges

The disgraced movie mogul is already serving a 23-year prison sentence for separate sexual assault charges.

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