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What the federal government's coal price cap means for power bills, generators and Queensland's royalties

The federal government has announced a price cap on gas and coal to help ease the cost of energy, but how will this help to lower your power bill?

ABC News

MP explains why he was opposed coal mines in his constituency - but backs one in Cumbria

Michael Gove controversially gave the green light for plans to create the first deep coal mine in the UK for decades

Chronicle Live

Bubala, Humble Chicken and Coal Rooms launch £15 festive tasting menus

The trio have partnered with American Express for a value-forward promotion

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9 miners killed in Indonesia coal mine explosion; 2 rescued

Nine miners have died in a coal mine explosion in Indonesia’s West Sumatra province and rescue workers are still searching for one missing miner after rescuing two others

The Independent UK

Cap on coal and gas prices key to Anthony Albanese’s plan to reduce electricity bills

Federal, state and territory governments will provide up to $3 billion in electricity bill relief to households and small businesses.

The New Daily

What is the energy price relief plan and will it actually reduce power bills?

Treasury modelling suggests average household will be $230 better off after national cabinet backed $1.5bn intervention

The Guardian - AU

$1.5bn energy price relief package for Australians including caps on coal and gas

Treasury advised the PM and premiers not to deliver the rebates as cash handouts due to risk of fuelling inflationary pressure

The Guardian - AU

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Cumbria coalmine protests planned as local opposition grows

Campaigners expected to gather on Friday and Saturday, and possible legal challenge is being explored

The Guardian - UK

$125 a tonne domestic coal cap confirmed as Albanese unveils power plan

Labor says coal and gas caps will ease bills

Newcastle Herald

Afternoon Update: national cabinet agrees to cap gas, coal prices; Covid cases rising; and South Koreans getting younger

Gas and coal prices will be capped, and relief is coming on energy bills, as parliament is recalled

The Guardian - AU

Will price caps on coal and gas bring power prices down? An expert isn't so sure

In a bid to arrest escalating power prices, Australia’s federal, state and territory governments have agreed to impose caps on the wholesale price of coal and gas.

The Conversation

Coal and gas prices to be capped as national cabinet strikes deal

The government expects its energy market intervention will spare the average household from $230 in otherwise expected price hikes next year, as national cabinet agrees to impose price caps on gas and coal.

ABC News

Big battery roll-out likely to pick up pace

The development of big batteries and long duration storage will be prioritised under an agreement between energy ministers to accelerate the switch from coal to renewables.

Newcastle Herald

Vanguard quits clean energy group after 13 states complain

One week after 13 Republican state attorneys general asked federal energy officials to consider blocking Vanguard Group from buying utility stocks because of its relationships with anti-coal and anti-natural gas activists, the Malvern, Pennsylvania-based investment giant has pulled out of an international group committed to reducing net greenhouse gas emissions…

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Newcastle Herald

Coal cap looks wrong, but realistic examination of power grid is long overdue

Blaming coal for the electricity grid's conversion crisis

WEKU

Advocates urge Congress to update black lung program

Newcastle Herald

Wide support for National Transition Authority

Energy companies and unions have expressed broad support for a Greens' proposal to establish a national transition authority to manage the energy transition.

The Conversation

Surging energy prices are really going to hurt. What can the government actually do?

Picture this. You’re in government for the first time in more than a decade. And within six months, you’re facing a diabolical problem: skyrocketing energy prices. To your constituents, it doesn’t matter that the root cause is a war in Europe. What they’ll see is pain – electricity and gas…

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Anthony Albanese urges national cabinet to endorse unprecedented intervention to cap coal and gas prices

As the year's end draws near, the prime minister convenes national cabinet, asking it to impose a price cap on coal and gas, fearing worse price spikes in 2023.

The Guardian - UK

Labour says it would stop Cumbria coalmine from opening

Ed Miliband vows party will seek to prevent ‘climate-destroying’ plan and if elected would deliver green jobs

Newcastle Herald

Report criticises coal price cap and says gas the real driver of power prices

"A price cap on coal is a short term political fix, not the solution it is being portrayed as, and it may actually make things worse.

Daily Mirror

Michael Gove accused of 'vandalism' over new coal mine and blasted by Speaker

A Commons debate on the approval of the UK's first coal mine in decades descended into chaos after Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle savaged Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove for failing to provide a copy of the statement

The Conversation

Cumbria coal mine: empty promises of carbon capture tech have excused digging up more fossil fuel for decades

The idea that a technology called carbon capture and storage (CCS) could catch molecules of CO₂ as they emerge from the chimneys of power stations and factories has been around for more than two decades. Michael Gove, the secretary of state responsible for “levelling up” the UK’s regions, recently justified…

The Guardian - UK

Cumbria coalmine is owned by private equity firm with Caymans base

West Cumbria Mining, which set up Whitehaven office during push for new mine, owned by EMR Capital

The National (Scotland)

Michael Gove apologises to Speaker after ‘thinnest statement ever’ on new coal mine

MICHAEL Gove has apologised to the House of Commons after the Speaker accused him of failing to follow the ministerial code when making a…

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