Ignoring its significant solar and wind power potential, Turkey is planning a massive 'dash for coal' with over 37,000 MW of new coal fired power stations.
… Erdogan's Turkey embarks on massive 'dash for coal' Oliver Tickell | 5th November 2013 News … Turkey is planning a massive 'dash for coal' with over 37,000 MW of new coal fired power stations. This is the key …
India's renewable power capacity is set to reach 170GW by 2022, write Areeba Hamid & Oliver Tickell - reducing power shortages and bringing electricity to off-grid of rural communities for the first time. But it may also have an unintended consequence - cutting off investment in India's troubled coal sector as prospects for future profitability evaporate..
… | 20th February 2015 News India Energy Coal Fossil Fuels Renewables Solar Finance … - cutting off investment in India's troubled coal sector as prospects for future … capacity is more than 250GW, most of from coal-fired power plants, while it has 22GW of …
Australian politicians are putting the Great Barrier Reef at risk by approving one of the world's largest coal mines, say activists and marine scientists. MAXINE NEWLANDS reports
… Coral Not Coal - Australian Activists Fight To Save the … | 15th December 2016 News Fossil Fuels Coal Mining Australia Activism Great Barrier … risk by approving one of the world's largest coal mines, say activists and marine …
Despite record heat and drought Australia's emissions and coal exports are soaring, says a new report, and both are increasing as a matter of government policy. But a homegrown climate action movement is putting a spanner in the works - and just stopped its first coal train.
… Tickell | 19th December 2014 News Australia Coal Fossil Fuel Politics Climate Change … heat and drought Australia's emissions and coal exports are soaring, says a new report, … in the works - and just stopped its first coal train. Australia's emissions of …
When the US's biggest ever coal ash spill buried 300 acres of waterfront property in a white, middle class suburb, the waste was treated as a toxic hazard. But by the time it reached Uniontown, a black community in Alabama, that was all forgotten. Now they are fighting back.
… 2014 News Waste Toxics USA Fossil Fuels Coalcoal-ash-stinks-cut.jpg When the US's biggest ever coal ash spill buried 300 acres of waterfront …
Chinese coal and nuclear energy giants are suddenly piling into the solar industry. Is this the way of the future, not only in China but around the world?
… China: nuclear and coal giants go solar Oliver Tickell | 10th January 2014 News China Solar Power Coal Nuclear Energy Renewables Chinese coal and nuclear energy giants are suddenly …
Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has handed the environment portfolio to the energy minister in an attempt to calm climate sceptics. But will it work? Ecologist writer Maxine Newlands reports.
… and Energy, Josh Frydenberg is nicknamed ‘Mr Coal' because of his past support for the … increasing carbon emissions from new coal mines. Turnbull's outward vision is that … that there is still a strong moral case for coal even during the worst coral bleaching in …
Last week the Ecologist published a piece on the shocking decision to approve an enormous coal port on the Great Barrier Reef. Here Maxine Newlands reports on how environmental groups in Australia are responding to this threat.....
… the shocking decision to approve an enormous coal port on the Great Barrier Reef. Here … is under threat from plans to build nine new coal mines and terminals along the Queensland … Keppel Bay, Rockhampton and Dudgeon Point Coal Terminals. UNESCO identifies the Great …
The fossil fuel industry and its political backers have been left reeling by an unprecedented series of direct action strikes against targets across the country to protest at continuing investment in and official support for fossil fuels, inaction over fuel poverty and the systematic neglect of renewable energy despite the global climate emergency.
… June 2015 News Energy Fossil Fuels Nuclear Coal Climate Change Protest UK Politics … fossil fuel and nuclear companies, a World Coal Assocation conference, the Department of … in expectation of a site occupation - the 2GW coal-burning Didcot A having already closed …
Australian environmentalists have launched a lawsuit against plans to expand a coal port that threatens the Great Barrier Reef, writes Maxine Newlands. The approval came in spite of warnings from UNESCO and marine scientists that the Reef is already 'in danger'.
… Great Barrier Reef coal port challenged Maxine Newlands | 6th May … News Oceans Mining Transport Fossil Fuels Coal gbr-turtle-cut.jpg Australian … launched a lawsuit against plans to expand a coal port that threatens the Great Barrier …
Knitting Nannas Against Gas (KNAG), an anti-fracking group held their national gathering in the heart of Australia's Coal Seam Gas (CSG) industry where the ‘Nannas' workshopped ways of evading arrest, media strategies, avoiding defaming energy companies, lawful protest, successful campaigns, protest songs and nanna naps. MAXINE NEWLANDS joined them for the gathering
… gathering in the heart of Australia's Coal Seam Gas (CSG) industry where the … gathering finished with a tour of the nearby Coal Seam Gas fields between Chinchilla and … housing with the local council. Australia's Coal Seam Gas Industry Australia's energy …
Australian environmentalists' declare new Prime Minister, Tony Abbotts' green agenda as ‘anti-environmental', designed only to profit the mining industry at the cost of climate change solutions, reports Maxine Newlands......
… warned the Australian government that further coal port expansion could put the Reef on the … Queensland Government to open up massive new coal deposits like the Galilee Basin". The … climate change by not allowing our massive coal export industry to expand even more. It …
Amber Rudd's speech today exposes her total failure to assemble a coherent energy strategy, writes Oliver Tickell. It reveals the increasingly certain failure to meet EU renewable energy targets, proposes a new tax on wind and solar generation, and leaves the country facing the real prospect of lights going out in the next decade. The one hard policy? To maximise oil and gas recovery.
… 2015 News Energy UK EU Politics Nuclear Coal Oil Renewables Climate Change … Even her headline announcement of 'an end to coal' was - while a clever way to confuse environmentalists - not all it seems. Coal power stations still have ten years to …
The UK's Advertising Standards Authority has ordered the withdrawal of an ad extolling the virtues of fracking, ruling that it is misleading, exaggerating, and lacks substantiation. In the process it has undermined the Government's entire case for fracking in the UK.
… greenhouse gas emissions by replacing coal with natural gas for energy ... " But not … greenhouse gas emissions by replacing coal with natural gas for energy" - false … used instead of, rather than in addition to, coal. ASA: "it was not certain that the …
The International Energy Agency's latest World Energy Outlook is calling for increased investment in new oil and gas, writes Oliver Tickell, while minimising the fast-growing and ever lower-cost contribution to world energy supply of renewables like wind and solar.
… 2016 News Energy Climate Change Oil Gas Coal Fossil Fuels Renewables Wind Solar … loser The IEA also assumes an increase in coal consumption up until 2040 in all except … 450 Scenario, which projects a 50% drop in coal consumption. Yet the 10% drop in coal …
A new report on fracking and climate change from the Task Force on Shale gas presents a rosy picture of the fuel's role as a climate-friendly 'bridge' to a renewable energy future, writes Oliver Tickell. But the truth is the precise opposite - it's a climate disaster that will only delay the arrival of clean energy.
… gas (LNG). It is also much better than coal. Gas will be needed for several decades … of gas is actually a lot worse than that of coal. Lord Smith himself provided the answer: … chamber, gas is a dirtier a fuel than coal. It has been estimated that, in fact, as …
Ecologist reporter MAXINE NEWLANDS sat down with the world's leading coral reef expert, distinguished Professor Terry Hughes FAA, Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Integrated Coral Reef Studies, (ARCCOE) at James Cook University and asked him directly what are the chances for the Reefs' survival?
… ports and dredging, coastal development and coal mining. Although much of the … are united in support for a new Adani mega coal mine to bring economic growth to the … The Professor is forthright in his views on coal, recently Tweeting to Queensland …
Indigenous elders from the Wangan and Jagalingou (W&J) people have put mining company Adani - and Australia's governments - on notice to quit the Carmichael mine project over native title claims. MAXINE NEWLANDS reports
… land rights could halt Australia's largest coal mining project Maxine Newlands | 16th … the parliamentary chamber a large lump of coal in support of the fossil fuel industry, …
Who has the longest nose of them all? Worthy winners of France's fiercely contested 'Prix Pinocchio' 2014 were selected last night, recognising corporate greed, hypocrisy and malfeasance, based on a record vote since the awards began.
… 2014 News Corporations France Energy Oil Coal Fracking Gas Finance pinocchio-cut.jpg … for its financing of Mountain-top removal coal mining in Appalachia, USA - providing finance to Arch Coal and Alpha Natural Resources. Banktrack …
The Great Barrier Reef was a key talking point in the run up to Australia's federal election as politicians promised billions to improve water quality, whilst talking down coral bleaching and report rigging. Ecologist writer, Maxine Newlands, reports...
… $7 billion in taxpayer's cash to pay for the coal and gas industry's fuel. And they're … contrasts with a continued push to expanding coal and mineral exports. Boom Or Bust: A Nations Love Affair with Coal. The Great Barrier Reef sits off the …
An ambitious plan to make a wholly renewable energy system cheaper than fossil fuels within a decade has been launched today and is set to receive its first hearing at the G7 Summit in Germany next week.
… in the world than electricity generated from coal, launched today, is already on the agenda … less costly to produce than energy based on coal, gas and oil" , according to the Global … sources becomes cheaper than new-build coal in sunny parts of the world by 2020, and …
If we are to move beyond the political impasse generated by the IPCC report and prevent catastrophic climate change we must look to market mechanisms, specifically price competitive renewables, writes Oliver Tickell......
… more importantly, ever increasing volumes of coal, oil and gas are spewing out of the … is also much cheaper to install than new coal fired capacity, which typically costs … peak capacity dwarfing all but the largest coal fired stations. Of course there is a …
As COP19 draws to a close in Warsaw today, India and Saudi Arabia blocked an agreement which could prevent the release of up to 100 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions by 2050.
… in Warsaw. Poland has vigorously supported coal as the 'fuel of the future', even holding a World Coal Summit in Warsaw coinciding with COP19. … host country Poland's vigorous support for coal-based power, an overwhelming corporate …
The EU faces a choice: a green, democratic future of clean prosperity and social justice? Or a dirty future of corporate domination with resurgent nuclear power, expanding fossil fuels, GMO agriculture and weak human and environmental protection? Junckers' Commission represents the latter. We must assert our own vision - or there will be little worth staying in for.
… it was on the disreputable foundations of the Coal and Steel Community and the Euratom … The same applies to Poland's struggling coal industry - also in line for €8 billion of … 'infrastructure' funds to build new lignite coal mines, new power stations and extend the …