Brown Coal

China has threatened Australia's $47billion coal industry as tensions between the two countries continue to grow. Authorities in Beijing have reportedly told state-owned power plants to buy coal from inside China instead of from Australia, the Sydney Morning Herald reported.China earlier banned Australian beef and slapped an 80 per cent tax…

Lancaster, California will be home to a "greener than green" trash-to hydrogen production plant three times the size of any other green H2 facility. SGH2 says its process is the cleanest of all on the market, while matching the price of the cheapest producers – and pulling tens of thousands…

Communities in Oaxaca say they were hoodwinked into approving wind parks that pollute their land. As another development looms, they're hoping a legal injunction puts power back in their hands. The Isthmus of Tehuantepec in southern Mexico is one of the windiest places on earth. Hemmed in by two mountain…

The operators of Victoria's now-closed Hazelwood Power Station have been fined more than $1.9 million by the Supreme Court of Victoria over the 2014 mine fire which burned for 45 days, covering the area in smoke and coal dust.Key points:The court handed down a $1.56 million fine for occupational health…

Clean Power Published on May 18th, 2020 | by Tina Casey May 18th, 2020 by Tina Casey  Why, it seems like only yesterday that ExxonMobil was forecasting a rosy scenario for fossil gas in the sparkling green economy of the future. Now along comes rival BP with a deep dive…

Outrage as an American company is quietly given approval to mine under a reservoir that supplies drinking water to over three million people in SydneyUS mining company has been given permission to mine under water reservoirWoronora dam south of Sydney helps supply water to three million residents But concerns raised about…

A south-west Victorian mayor said he feared his council was being shut out of any decisions around the dumping, in his shire, of contaminated soil from the West Gate Tunnel project.Key points:Maddingley Brown Coal Mine (MBC) in Bacchus Marsh is pushing to step up a soil processing facility to take…

The future of energy storage and smart cities Wider biz scope for automakers with strength in energy storage/utilization In 2019, the Nobel Prize in chemistry was given to three individuals who contributed to the development of the lithium-ion battery industry. The Nobel Committee praised the development saying, "it can also…

Water is a highly contested resource in this long, oppressive drought, and the coal industry is one of Australia’s biggest water users. Research released today, funded by the Australian Conservation Foundation, has identified how much water coal mining and coal-fired power stations actually use in New South Wales and Queensland.…

Carbon emissions from the power sector have fallen by nearly 40 per cent across Europe due to coronavirus lockdowns, analysis suggests.Emissions of CO2 from power generation, including the harmful burning of coal, have been 39 per cent lower in the past 30 days than the same period in 2019.The analysis…