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Plans to turn former Wearmouth Colliery into heat network could be 'transformational'

Should the project receive the green light for the test site, they will have a drilling window between July 2023 and April 2024

Chronicle Live

Coal power plants on standby with blackout prevention scheme to go live

THREE coal power plants are on standby as the scheme designed to stop blackouts is set to go live for the first time.

The National (Scotland)

Coal plants ordered to start warming up to supply electricity as cold snap bites

Electricity supply margins may be tighter than normal on Monday, according to predicted forecasts

Wales Online

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Clean energy gains a foothold in India, but coal still rules

For six years, farmer Pravinbhai Parmar in west India has been using solar power for irrigation

The Independent UK

Having legislated 'a price emergency', governments must now make coal intervention work

Details of the domestic coal price cap

Newcastle Herald

National Grid to offer discounts to households that save energy amid cold weather

Coal power plants are being put on standby as freezing fog hits England

The Independent UK

Protestors fight coal mine expansion

Police dispersed hundreds of protestors rallying to save a tiny village from demolition

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NSW government acknowledges 'transport' concerns in coal reservation talks with industry

Fears domestic coal policy could put coal trucks back on Hunter roads

Newcastle Herald

Coal power stations fired up and customers paid to cut energy use in UK cold snap

National Grid asks Drax and EDF to start warming three plants and says it will activate its live demand flexibility service on Monday evening

The Guardian - UK

Landmark deals give Indigenous key role in Canada resource projects

YQT community signs unprecedented agreement with coal company giving Indigenous leadership ‘veto’ on proposed project

The Guardian - US

The Stats Guy: How Australian coal can help Germany beat its energy crisis

In the very West of Germany lies Luetzerath. It’s an obscure and tiny settlement. Nobody ever cared about it – until recently that is.

The New Daily

Environmental groups plan fresh legal action against mine as New Acland ramps up recruitment drive

Environmental groups are planning fresh legal action against the New Acland Coal mine, arguing a permit obtained by the mine is "a licence to take or interfere with water".

ABC News

Acclaimed Indian journalist slams ICICI Bank's 'silent arrogance' over failed WA coal mine

A leading Indian investigative reporter has labelled the country's biggest private bank, which is at the centre of an unfolding energy crisis in Australia, secretive and "arrogant".

ABC News

W.Va. bills pass on carbon sequestration, hydrogen hubs

Two bills that would make it easier for hydrogen hubs and underground carbon sequestration projects to come to historically coal-dependent West Virginia are headed to the desk of Republican Gov. Jim Justice

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France 24

Here's what we know about Greta Thunberg's alleged ‘staged’ arrest in Germany

Swedish activist Greta Thunberg was arrested on Tuesday, January 17 during a sit-in protest against the expansion of a coal mine in Lützerath, Germany. A video showing Greta seeming to pose for photographers while being held by police officers garnered more than ten million views in two days and fed…

Insider UK

Coalition steps up court fight over rent control and eviction ban

A Petition for Judicial Review has been submitted to the Court of Session

Chronicle Live

The Hebburn mum who took on British Coal over choking fumes and poisonous puddles - and won

Jennie's David and Goliath battle dominated her life for decades

The Independent UK

WVa governor's family coal firm agrees to reclaim mines

A coal company owned by the family of West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice has agreed to reclaim three large surface mines in southwestern Virginia to settle a lawsuit with environmental groups

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Daily Mirror

Mum took on British Coal and WON in battle over choking fumes and poisonous puddles

Jennie Shearan, a housewife who moved to South Tyneside with her young family in 1953, devoted incalculable hours campaigning for her local British Coal plant to stop polluting the area with emissions such as sulphur dioxide

Reuters

Germany's Greens must squeeze coalition on climate after coal mine protest

Germany's Greens party can weather disapproval from its environmentalist base over its role in approving the demolition of a village to expand a coal mine if it uses that concession to accelerate other climate policies, activists and analysts say.

Los Angeles Times

Indie film is at a crossroads. And Sundance is full of ‘canaries in the coal mine’

When the Sundance Film Festival last came to Park City, it was the Before Times. Before COVID-19 drastically altered billions of lives, yes. But also before the carefully cultivated entertainment industry ecosystem of which the festival is a part was wildly upended.

The Guardian - AU

NSW to intervene in coal market to ‘even playing field’ among producers

Miners to be required to set aside up to 10% of production for domestic users, Matt Kean says

AAP

NSW coal put aside for local market

The NSW government has expanded its reservation scheme and will order more coal producers to reserve some output for domestic power stations.

ABC News

Nucoal shareholders seek compensation after John Maitland found not guilty of misconduct

There was a huge snowball effect when a Hunter mining executive was accused of wrongdoing. He has since cleared his name and shareholders say they deserve justice.

France 24

German police deny Greta Thunberg 'staged' detainment claims

Swedish activist Greta Thunberg was briefly detained then released during a protest in Germany against the demolition of a village to make way for a coal mine. Images of Thunberg being detained went viral, as many claim that she staged it. We tell you what journalists and local police on…

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