Carbon export tax would stamp out coal use: paper
Industry
UK coal use is under increasing scrutiny despite claims that the country went a fortnight last year without generating any
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Renewables increasingly cheaper than coal: report
Environment
Wind and solar projects will soon produce cheaper power in every major global market than coal-fired plants, according to the
Equinor drops Australia drilling plans
Policy
Norway’s state-owned oil and gas giant Equinor has abandoned plans to drill for oil after a prolonged environmental campaign and
Australian grid struggles with renewables boom: report
Transmission
Australia’s independent Energy Security Board (ESB) has reported a “remarkable growth” in renewable energy, driven by cheaper equipment and government
Australia coal giant’s output hit by fires
Industry
Mining giant BHP or “Broken Hill Proprietary” says smoke and dust from the Australian bushfires are hampering coal production. The
Steel sector boosts global coal trade
Consumption
The global maritime coal trade grew 0.7 per cent last year, helped by increased output in China and Indonesia, according
Activists target Siemens over Australia coal deal
Environment
German engineering giant Siemens is under fire for supplying technical equipment for a gigantic new Australian coal mine in Queensland.
Will Australia rethink its fossil fuel policy?
Opinion
The brushfires currently ravaging Australia have cast a harsh light on the climate-sceptic and vocally pro-fossil fuel policies of successive
UN calls for cap on fossil-fuel extraction
Environment
A United Nations study says major fossil-fuel producing countries plan to extract more coal, oil and gas than can be
Australia university uses water battery to cut AC bill
Storage
A chilled Australian “water battery” is using surplus solar power generated from 6,000 photovoltaic panels (pictured) at the University of
China boosts coal imports and new mines
Environment
China, the world’s largest coal importer, is set to boost imports of the filthy fossil fuel by more than 10
Study claims hydrogen breakthrough
Transmission
Australia’s top research agency has announced a hydrogen breakthrough that could create an export industry targeting Asia and beyond. The
Ex-Toyota factory due to converted into hydrogen hub
Transmission
A former car factory in Melbourne will be transformed into a hydrogen fuel cell production centre to power vehicles adapted
Project aims to sell hydrogen batteries by 2020
Storage
The University of New South Wales in Sydney and H2Store have received funding to test a new hydrogen battery which
Bid to relax fracking quake limits rejected
Environment
As most of the rest of Europe has rejected fracking, Britain’s right-wing government has turned down a controversial request from