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Carmichael coal mine magnate Gautam Adani: from school dropout to $12bn empire

The Adani Power plant inside the special economic zone near Tragadi Bander on the Kutch Coast of India.

As a result, says the energy consultant Tim Buckley, “Adani is getting exactly the same sort of treatment from Australian politicians to that which he is used to back in India. He has been offered a $1 billion subsidised loan from the Northern Australian Infrastructure Facility [NAIF], and a $600 million royalty holiday and free water from Queensland taxpayers. And as if that wasn’t enough, we’ve now learnt that the Queensland Government has compulsorily acquired prime agricultural land to make way for the Adani railway. It’s farcical.”

Carmichael coal mine magnate Gautam Adani: from school dropout to $12bn empire

Climate Change, Coal

‘Tobacco at a cancer summit’: Trump coal push savaged at climate conference | Environment | The Guardian

White House officials and business leaders appear at the event, titled The Role of Cleaner and More Efficient Fossil Fuels and Nuclear Power in Climate Mitigation.

‘Tobacco at a cancer summit’: Trump coal push savaged at climate conference | Environment | The Guardian

Coal

Most Australians oppose Adani mine, poll shows, amid national protests | Environment | The Guardian

Thousands of people gather at 40 locations across the country on Saturday as part of the Stop Adani Alliance

Source: Most Australians oppose Adani mine, poll shows, amid national protests | Environment | The Guardian

Coal

The Myth About Coal Being Cheaper And More Reliable Than Renewables

Renewable energy is now the cheapest form of new power.

Source: The Myth About Coal Being Cheaper And More Reliable Than Renewables

Coal

Adani Carmichael coal mine: Former Indian minister sounds alarm on Adani’s track record, mega-mine’s viability – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

India’s former environment minister says the Adani Group’s track record in India leaves a lot to be desired.

Source: Adani Carmichael coal mine: Former Indian minister sounds alarm on Adani’s track record, mega-mine’s viability – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Coal

Even People In Coal Towns Have A Problem With Coal

But there are three reasons the Federal Government keeps pushing it.

Source: Even People In Coal Towns Have A Problem With Coal

Coal

Turnbull’s abject capitulation to the coal lobby is now complete

By maintaining the archaic Liddell power plant Turnbull is only appeasing the fuel lobby and the right wing of the COALition.

Source: Turnbull’s abject capitulation to the coal lobby is now complete

Coal

Coal in decline: an energy industry on life support | Environment | The Guardian

Special report: The pace of coal plants shutting down in Australia could mean the country’s fleet could be gone before 2040. The transformation is enormous – and seems inevitable• Support our independent journalism and critical reporting on energy and the environment by giving a one-off or monthly contribution

Source: Coal in decline: an energy industry on life support | Environment | The Guardian

Coal

Adani fined for dumping coal-laden stormwater into sea at Abbot Point | Business | The Guardian

Dumped water containing over eight times the permitted amount of sediment was released by family-linked company during Cyclone Debbie in March

Source: Adani fined for dumping coal-laden stormwater into sea at Abbot Point | Business | The Guardian

Coal

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Coal

The COALition’s energy policy: Circa 1900s

Climate policy can’t get any dumber than when PM Malcolm Turnbull is implementing the very energy policies he once described as “bullshit”.

Source: The COALition’s energy policy: Circa 1900s

Coal

Post-Coal Theming and Preventative Unemployment – » The Australian Independent Media Network

The Anti-Adani protest has generated divisive anti-worker rhetoric. Preventative unemployment should be a key focus towards a post-coal world. This article discusses the importance of themes in the narrative towards a post-coal world and explores the approach to preventative unemployment policy.

Source: Post-Coal Theming and Preventative Unemployment – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Coal

Why Australia needs to whip its coal dependence

“At one time there must’ve been dozens of companies making buggy whips. And I’ll bet the last company around was the one that made the best goddamn buggy whip you’d ever seen.”But you wouldn’t give a billion dollars to that company. You wouldn’t invest your future in a company making a product from the age of the horse-and-cart in a modern world.

Source: Why Australia needs to whip its coal dependence

Coal

Energy economics group says export market for Australian coal will decline | Environment | The Guardian

Office of the chief economist projects market will grow by 8.7% by 2022, but Institute for Energy Economics says this is based on out of date analysis

Source: Energy economics group says export market for Australian coal will decline | Environment | The Guardian

Coal

‘Clean coal’ and other dirty jokes

The Turnbull Government has introduced legislation to enable investment in coal despite the fact that there is just no such thing as “clean coal”.

Source: ‘Clean coal’ and other dirty jokes

Coal

Explosion at Colombia coal mine kills at least eight

At least eight miners at an underground coal mine in Colombia have died and five more are missing after an explosion caused by methane gas, the national mining agency said on Saturday.

Source: Explosion at Colombia coal mine kills at least eight

Coal

Renewables and storage will crush coal way ahead of Finkel’s forecast

A MAJOR NEW SURVEY has pointed to the inevitable decline in coal generation, as the ongoing plunge in wind and solar costs make those technologies significantly cheaper than even refurbished coal-fired generators.

Source: Renewables and storage will crush coal way ahead of Finkel’s forecast

Coal

India has enough coal without Adani mine, | Environment | The Guardian

Last month India cancelled coal projects in the pipeline equal to around 13.7GW of electricity capacity. It is also preparing to close 37 coalmines.Should the cost of renewables such as solar, which fell below the price of coal this year, continue to decline, the Indian economy has the potential to be coal-free by 2050, according to a recent report from the Delhi-based Energy and Resources Institute

Source: India has enough coal without Adani mine, yet must keep importing, minister says | Environment | The Guardian

Coal

Public opinion is shifting the ground under Trump, Abbott and the coal club | Peter Lewis | Opinion | The Guardian

Trump’s rebuff of global climate action is right out of the coal club’s playbook – dismiss the science, complain that other countries will get a better deal, build fear around jobs, prices and industry to resist change.

Source: Public opinion is shifting the ground under Trump, Abbott and the coal club | Peter Lewis | Opinion | The Guardian

Coal

The ‘odious’ Adani coal mine – » The Australian Independent Media Network

$1.32 billion / 24.4 jobs = $54,098,361 per job By Michael Griffin Concerns about the environmental costs and damage to the nationally and globally significant Great Barrier Reef by the Adani Group’s Carmichael mine in Queensland, the world’s biggest coal mine, have been expressed. Yet the now discredited claims regarding the economic benefits that the…

Source: The ‘odious’ Adani coal mine – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Coal

Gujarat Cancelling 4 Gigawatt Coal Power Plant As India Moves Away From Coal | CleanTechnica

The government of Indian state Gujarat has cancelled a proposed 4 gigawatt coal power ultra-mega power project due to existing surplus generation capacity and a desire to transition from fossil fuel–based energy sources to renewable power.Reports from India’s Business Standard earlier this month reported that the government of Gujarat, under Chief Minister Vijay Rupani, has

Source: Gujarat Cancelling 4 Gigawatt Coal Power Plant As India Moves Away From Coal | CleanTechnica

Coal

A Reality You Can’t Dig Yourself Out Of – Adani’s Coal Mine Is A Dud – New Matilda

In a world where coal has no future, the proposed Adani mine should not be given serious consideration. Even if climate change were not a pressing problem, and even if thermal coal prices were to rise and stay high, the project would bring little benefit to Australia, writes Ian McAuley. Dear reader, I’m asking youMore

Source: A Reality You Can’t Dig Yourself Out Of – Adani’s Coal Mine Is A Dud – New Matilda

Coal

Kentucky coal company announces plans to build the state’s largest solar farm

Kentucky coal company announces plans to build the state’s largest solar farmThe company says the farm will give jobs to displaced coal miners.A dump truck moves dirt and rock from a mountaintop removal coal mine in Kentucky. CREDIT: AP Photo/Roger AlfordA Kentucky coal company announced Tuesday that it is planning to build a solar farm on a reclaimed mountaintop removal coal mine and that the project would bring both jobs and energy to the ar

Source: Kentucky coal company announces plans to build the state’s largest solar farm

Coal

Adani boast puts $1b coal project loan in doubt, as new footage shows Abbot Point spill damage

Conservationists renew warnings about destruction of the onshore environment and Great Barrier Reef.

Source: Adani boast puts $1b coal project loan in doubt, as new footage shows Abbot Point spill damage

Coal

So, About Those Claims The Adani Coal Mine Will Create 10,000 Jobs…

Yeah, probably not hey.

Source: So, About Those Claims The Adani Coal Mine Will Create 10,000 Jobs…

Coal

Kentucky Coal Mining Museum in Harlan County switches to solar power – The Washington Post

“It is a little ironic,” said a museum spokesman. “But you know, coal and solar and all the different energy sources work hand-in-hand. And, of course, coal is still king around here.”

Source: Kentucky Coal Mining Museum in Harlan County switches to solar power – The Washington Post

Coal

Are We Going To Underwrite Adani – Since When Did We Become Socialist? – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Ok, I was going to write about Trump’s attack on Syria and my confusion that some of the same people who were worried that Trump would react emotionally and attack another country are now applauding his actions because he reacted emotionally to the footage of the gas attack. And then I realised that I’d have…

Source: Are We Going To Underwrite Adani – Since When Did We Become Socialist? – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Coal

Adani mine needs $1bn public funding to go ahead, Barnaby Joyce says | Australia news | The Guardian

Acting prime minister calls $900m concessional loan a ‘tipping point issue’ as Malcolm Turnbull meets Adani founder

Source: Adani mine needs $1bn public funding to go ahead, Barnaby Joyce says | Australia news | The Guardian

Coal

“No new Coal Plants!” – European Energy Companies

Newsy |. (Video News Clip) | / The Tree | – – “Energy companies representing almost the entire European Union …

Source: “No new Coal Plants!” – European Energy Companies

Coal

Exposing Adani’s environmental and labour abuses | The Saturday Paper

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Source: Exposing Adani’s environmental and labour abuses | The Saturday Paper

Coal

Fox Business Host Allows Industry CEO To Continue Denying The Real Reason For Coal’s Decline

Fox Business host Stuart Varney allowed a coal mining company CEO who previously said President Donald Trump couldn’t bring back coal jobs to walk back those comments, while Varney himself pushed the myth that environmental protections are to blame for the loss of jobs in the coal industry.A March 27 article in The Guardian reported that

Source: Fox Business Host Allows Industry CEO To Continue Denying The Real Reason For Coal’s Decline

Coal

‘Barbaric’: Adani’s giant coal mine granted unlimited water licence for 60 years

The proposed Adani coal mine has been granted unlimited access to groundwater in a move farmers fear will allow it to drain huge amounts of water from the Great Artesian Basin.

Source: ‘Barbaric’: Adani’s giant coal mine granted unlimited water licence for 60 years

Coal

Germany Converts Coal Mine Into Giant Battery Storage for Surplus Solar and Wind Power

Giant German coal mine being converted into battery to store excess sun and wind power

Source: Germany Converts Coal Mine Into Giant Battery Storage for Surplus Solar and Wind Power

Coal

The fantasy that coal has a future helps no one

Coal is a dying industry for reasons that aren’t merely environmental.

Source: The fantasy that coal has a future helps no one

Coal

Coal CEO gets real on Trump’s coal jobs promise: “He can’t bring them back” – Salon.com

Robert Murray is no friend of carbon dioxide restrictions, but he is a realist about creating more coal jobs

Source: Coal CEO gets real on Trump’s coal jobs promise: “He can’t bring them back” – Salon.com

Coal

Coal Just Won The War On Coal. But Coal Miners Are Still Screwed

“It won’t add any coal jobs, but it will set back the country as a leader on the environment,” said one expert.

Source: Coal Just Won The War On Coal. But Coal Miners Are Still Screwed

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World abandoning coal in dramatic style raises hope of avoiding dangerous global warming, says report | The Independent

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As Donald Trump pledges to put coal miners back to work in the United States, the rest of the world appears to have suddenly started moving in the opposite direction, abandoning the dirtiest of fossil fuels after 10 years of expansion, according to a new analysis. Boom and Bust 2017, compiled by US environmental group the Sierra Club, Greenpeace and research group CoalSwarm, reported a 62 per cent fall in the number of new coal-fired power stations being built worldwide in 2016 and a 48 per cent drop in “pre-construction activity”.

Source: World abandoning coal in dramatic style raises hope of avoiding dangerous global warming, says report | The Independent

Coal

Cassidy: Energy policy has become a battle royale, but where is ‘king coal’? – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Politicians at the state and federal level — seemingly from nowhere — came up with nation-building energy solutions this week as they sought to out-do each other, says Insiders host Barrie Cassidy.

Source: Cassidy: Energy policy has become a battle royale, but where is ‘king coal’? – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Coal

Big Australian banks invest $7bn more in fossil fuels than renewables, says report | Environment | The Guardian

ANZ, NAB, Commonwealth Bank and Westpac provided three times more for non-renewable than clean energy projects in 2016, says Market Forces

Source: Big Australian banks invest $7bn more in fossil fuels than renewables, says report | Environment | The Guardian

Coal

The dirty truth behind Turnbull’s ‘clean coal’ con – » The Australian Independent Media Network

You have to hand it to Clive Palmer.  Whatever money he invested to get himself elected to parliament with sufficient power to abolish the carbon and mining taxes was well worth it for him personally. And now it seems that Clive is trying to take advantage of the government’s direction to the CEFC to fund…

Source: The dirty truth behind Turnbull’s ‘clean coal’ con – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Coal

Adani director appointed to body overseeing mining giant’s coal port despite conflict of interest warning – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

The Queensland Government appointed an Adani company director to chair the authority overseeing the Abbot Point coal port.

Source: Adani director appointed to body overseeing mining giant’s coal port despite conflict of interest warning – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Coal

Donald Trump overturns law preventing companies dumping coal mining debris in streams and rivers | The Independent

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President Donald Trump has put the brakes on a regulation blocking coal mining debris from being dumped into nearby streams. Trump called the stream protection regulation a “job-killing rule” before he signed a measure to overturn it.

Source: Donald Trump overturns law preventing companies dumping coal mining debris in streams and rivers | The Independent

Coal

No, new coal is not feasible: on price, reliability or emissions | Tennant Reed | Opinion | The Guardian

The proposition that new coal plants could be an effective solution to Australia’s energy needs should be treated with scepticism

Source: No, new coal is not feasible: on price, reliability or emissions | Tennant Reed | Opinion | The Guardian

Coal

Adani companies facing multiple financial crime, corruption probes – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Indian authorities investigate Adani companies for siphoning money offshore and artificially inflating power prices in India.

Source: Adani companies facing multiple financial crime, corruption probes – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Coal

Aside from the culture, environment and cost, is Adani a good investment?

The Australian public is the sole investor in Adani’s coal export plans. We need to understand the true numbers.

Source: Aside from the culture, environment and cost, is Adani a good investment?

Coal

Seven reasons why lavishing a $1 billion subsidy on Adani is a truly inane idea

Michael West exposes the sheer WTFness of the Federal Government stumping up Adani’s dud coal mine with a $1 billion taxpayer subsidy.

Source: Seven reasons why lavishing a $1 billion subsidy on Adani is a truly inane idea

Coal

Coal price rally puts Adani Power under catastrophic financial pressure

Lachlan Barker investigates reports on whether Adani is proceeding with its plans for a mega-coal-mine in Queensland.

Source: Coal price rally puts Adani Power under catastrophic financial pressure

Coal

Donald Trump a working man’s hero in US coal country – US election 2016 – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

In the early 1920s, the largest labour uprising in US history took place in Logan County, in West Virginia’s rich coal country. Today, as the region struggles to cope with the industry’s downturn, Donald Trump is at the centre of a new rebellion.

Source: Donald Trump a working man’s hero in US coal country – US election 2016 – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Coal

Turnbull government’s green shift to back renewables

Incoming Environment and Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg has flagged a marked change in direction away from fossil fuels.

Malcolm Turnbull’s new Environment and Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg has signalled a declining role for coal in Australia’s energy mix in the future, in a marked change from the aggressively pro-coal stance of the Abbott government.

Source: Turnbull government’s green shift to back renewables