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Australia: Air pollution alerts in Hunter Valley spur protests.
Australia: Proposed Newcastle terminal trimmed to 70 million tonnes a year.
Australia: Minister wants “coal seam gas” replaced by “natural gas from coal seams”.
Canada: Coal drilling rig shut down by First Nation protest.
Canada: Coal conference dominated by talk of cost cutting.
Colombia: Brazilian billionaire offloads two coal mines for cash.
Colombia: Seven week strike at Drummond mines and port ends.
India: Jindal Power faces expensive coal for proposed Chattisgarh plant.
India: Government-owned coal company hikes coal prices by fifteen percent.
India: NGO argues Supreme Court should cancel all ‘Coalgate’ coal allocations.
Mongolia: Coal exports to China fell by 46% in the first half of the year.
Scotland: Legal challenge to Hunterston coal plant fails.
United States: Kentucky judge overturns water pollution permit for coal plant.
United States: Peabody Energy’s Prairie State deal deserves to be investigated.
United States: Coal lobby aims to block Obama nominee for transmission agency.
United States: Coal company asked not to bid on federal coal lease.
United States: Thirteen arrested over protest against proposed Montana mine.
United States: Coal export plans dwindle as global coal market sours.
Zambia: First coal power plant and associated mine proceeding.
wrote Lance Dickie, an editorial columnist for the Seattle Times.
Anthony Yuen, a Citigroup energy analyst told the New York Times.
Synapse Energy Economics, Water Constraints on Energy Production: Altering our Current Collision Course, Civil Society Institute, September 2013. (Pdf) The report reviews the conflict between water and power production in the US and concludes that declining water supplies are both limiting the nation’s energy supplies and being threatened by power plant operations and fuel production.
Coal vs. Water, Greenpeace China, September 2013. (Video) This nine-minute video examines the conflict between the development of massive coal mining and processing centres in Erdos in Inner Mongolia and Yulin in Shaanxi province and the impact on downstream water resources for domestic use and agriculture.
‘Long March’ to protect Bangladesh World Heritage site: Support activists from across Bangladesh who will be trekking 600km from 24-28 September in a Long March to save the World Heritage site, the Sundarbans, from a 1,320MW coal fired power plant. The Sundarbans is the world’s largest mangrove forest and plays an important role in protecting the climate. Work on building the coal plant is scheduled to begin on 26 September. For more information see here.