A legal challenge has been launched against what would be Australia's biggest coal mine, writes Samantha Hepburn. If it succeeds, all future coal mine assessments will have to include the impacts of the resulting CO2 emissions on Australia's most important nature sites, such as the Great Barrier Reef.
… Legal challenge puts coal mining's climate blame on trial Samantha … Hepburn | 21st January 2015 News Australia Coal Cliamte Change Natural World strip_coal_mining-cut.jpg A legal challenge has been …
The Rampal coal power plant in Bangladesh, near the world's greatest mangrove forest, is a deeply misconceived project that must be abandoned, writes Johan Frijns in this Open Letter to the Exim Bank of India - which is planning to finance its construction. It would severely damage the precious local environment and wildlife, while adding to global climate change and sea level rise.
… Bank of India - stop support for the Rampal Coal Power plant! Johan Frijns Banktrack | … May 2016 Comment Climate Change Fossil Fuels Coal Bangladesh India Natural World Water … Oceans village-sundarbans-cut.jpg The Rampal coal power plant in Bangladesh, near the …
Britain lingers near to the bottom of the European league table for renewable energy, so why does it seem that the government are willing to add more coal nails to the coffin?
… Coal is over Joss Garman | 22nd June 2008 Comment Coal Renewable Energy Kingsnorth CCS Coal Global Warming Carbon Off-Setting Nuclear …
Clean Coal Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is the technology of stripping carbon dioxide from the exhaust gases of fossil fuels and then burying it as a liquid underground.
… Power On - Clean Coal Jon Hughes Mark Anslow | 1st November 2007 News Clean Coal Carbon Dioxide Carbon Capture Coal Carbon Dioxide Global Warming Climate …
Greenpeace campaigners yesterday shut down Kingsnorth coal power station in Kent to send a message that expansion plans for coal power in the UK are outdated and dangerous.
… Greenpeace shut down coal-powered monster in Kent 9th October 2007 News Coal Kingsnorth Coal Power Energy Climate Change Greenpeace …
Slovakia’s first female president will challenge long-standing industrial interests and the financing of coal mining.
… Slovakian president-elect to fight coal subsidies Natalie Sauer Climate Home News | 4th April 2019 News Slovakia Coal Global Warming Change Makers caputova.png … industrial interests and the financing of coal mining. Zuzana Čaputová - '‘Slovakia’s …
Two trucks, sent by Greenpeace and daubed with "BLAIR DUMPS CLIMATE" tipped four tonnes of coal on the doorstep of the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs this morning, to expose this government's failure to act on climate change.
… Greenpeace Dumps Four Tonnes of Coal at Defra Offices 2nd February 2007 News Greenpeace Protest Coal Ipcc Global Warming Carbon Dioxide Coal Global Warming Climate Change UK …
Campaigners in the US are celebrating a victory against a proposed coal power plant in Iowa, Environmental News Services reports.
… Big Coal sent packing in Iowa 17th October 2007 News Coal Power Energy Carbon Dioxide Iowa Sierra Club Campaigns Coal Carbon Dioxide Global Warming Climate …
A powerful call has gone out the the US Export-Import Bank not to finance a massive coal mine, railway, port terminal and dredged 'canal' through Australia's Great Barrier Reef with $1 billion in loans and guarantees.
… The Ecologist | 20th February 2015 News Coal Fossil Fuels Australia USA Finance … Export-Import Bank not to finance a massive coal mine, railway, port terminal and dredged … India-based Adani Group's massive Carmichael coal mine in Australia's Galilee Basin. The …
The battle against coal mining by Mountain Top Removal has been fought by the people of Appalachia over generations. The campaigners' target is now Swiss bank UBS, the main financier of the destruction.
… The Ecologist | 27th November 2013 Activism Coal Global Warming Fossil Energy Extreme Energy hoa.png The battle against coal mining by Mountain Top Removal has been … is an extreme form of strip-mining in which coal companies blast up to a thousand feet off …
Environmental groups in the US are taking the government to court over its plans to subsidise new coal-fired power plants.
… Environmentalists sue over US coal subsidies 27th July 2007 News RUS US United States Coal Power Electricity Carbon Dioxide Climate Change Carbon Dioxide Global Warming Coal Energy Politics And Economics News web …
The recent U-turn by of some of the UK's leading environmentalists - and one-time nuclear energy opponents - on the issue of nuclear energy, has caused vigourous debate in the media. Their reasoning is that we simply don't have the capacity to produce enough renewable energy to meet our needs. But as this comprehensive Ecologist report from 2007 shows the UK is really a renewable energy powerhouse.
… 2009 News Renewable Energy Energy Oil UK Coal Gas Climate Change Global Warming Carbon … Global Warming Climate Change Nuclear Oil Coal Depleted Uranium UK Environment Climate … the energy crisis. Stop using oil, gas and coal and we might just stabilise carbon …
It may seem odd timing that many of us are heading to the nation's capital early next month for a major act of civil disobedience at a coal-fired power plant, the first big protest of its kind against global warming in America.
… for a major act of civil disobedience at a coal-fired power plant, the first big protest … that the world as a whole must stop burning coal by 2030 - and the developed world well … you some sense of what Obama's up against. Coal provides 50 percent of our electricity. …
Ten of the Europe's thirty most polluting power stations are in the UK, a new report from the World Wildlife Fund has revealed.
… Dirty Thirty WWF Power Plants Electricity Coal Drax Carbon Dioxide Global Warming Climate Change Coal Climate Change Energy Pollution News web … say that this increase implies a return to coal as a fuel of choice. The much-picketed …
High Street banking giant HSBC is bankrolling the destruction of rainforests essential for the survival of Bornean orangutans and other endangered species.
… HSBC has also been implicated in coal mining in Indonesian Borneo, causing huge … by The Ecologist in Borneo's rainforest coal: City of London profit (by John Vidal) and UK-financed coal mining is devastating Indonesian Borneo …
Large areas of the Great Barrier Reef are dying in what may be its greatest ever 'bleaching' event, writes James Dyke. The mass loss of the photosynthetic algae that sustain the coral is the result of this year's massive 'El Niño' perturbation to Pacific weather patterns, and global warming. Australia's response? The government has just approved leases for the world's biggest coal mine.
… just approved leases for the world's biggest coal mine. Large sections of the Great Barrier … leases for the A$21.7 billion Carmichael coal mine and associated new rail line in the Galilee Basin. If all of this coal is extracted and burnt, some 4.6 billion …
The Dayak Benua community of Muara Tae, Indonesia, are fighting to protect their ancestral forests from a mining company. The London-based Environmental Investigation Agency has now launched a campaign to assist
… Activism Natural World Politics And Economics Coal Power Indigenous People Indonesia Carbon … in Kalimantan, Indonesia looking at the coal mining area that used to be their … Exclusive film looks at allegations that a coal power project in central India, approved …
We are all aware that the weather is never quite the same from one year to the next. That is all part of the natural variability of climate. It is the task of climatologists to tease out any change to climate, such as global warming, from all that variability.
… the exploration and development of new oil, coal and gas projects. In addition, an end … immediately start phasing out the use of coal-fired power stations. Together, … source of carbon emissions (39 per cent). Coal-fired power stations supply most of the …
Britain’s carbon dioxide emissions are soaring - contrary to government rhetoric - and coal is to blame, new figures have revealed.
… - contrary to government rhetoric - and coal is to blame, new figures have revealed. … energy use – is due to an increased use of coal as a generating fuel, in response to … to the rise in price by burning more coal, which produces more carbon per unit of …
Robin Millam from the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature is encouraged to by the progress being made by those countries and communities small and large who are seeking to give legal rights to nature.....
… are uniting to implement similar ordinances. Coal has provided the economic base for the … of Tamaqua for much of the last century. As coal mining in the region declined, mining … and aquifers. When residents learned the coal companies also planned to fill the pits …
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 …
Mongolia and China are separated by world views as well as by a border across the Gobi desert, writes Troy Sternberg. In Mongolia the idea that nature has intrinsic value is readily accepted, while China is more interested in resources for trade, industry and profit. Can a clash of interests be avoided?
… livelihoods exist alongside mountains of coal, modern cities, desert agriculture and … that borders Mongolia itself - goes for coal extraction and processing to meet China's … for the desert's new copper, gold and coal mining, requires money and technology to …
Argentinean academic and activist Raul Montenegro on why indigenous people hold the keys to survival, why GM technologies only profit big business and how nuclear power ignores the rights of future generations
… nuclear power as an alternative to coal, oil and gas to help tackle climate …
Can lawyers really save the world? James Thornton from UK law firm ClientEarth believes they can - and is leading the way in achieving ecological justice
… ClientEarth James Thornton Lawyers Government Coal Clean Water Act NRDC Make A Difference … down on building a new generation of dirty coal plants. We won a major case against the …