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Labor rules out coal levy, but still to reveal Stockton beach policy

Labor has ruled out imposing a levy on coal exports in order to raise funds for the repair and maintenance of Stockton Beach.

Newcastle Herald

Greta Thunberg defies German police as she fights for lost cause

The Swedish activist came to Germany to prevent a corporation from flattening a community to make way for strip mine excavating the most polluting form of coal on earth.

Fortune

Doubts over Qld coal mine's water licence

The Queensland water department made a "shocking error of judgement" granting New Hope's Acland mine a licence and a review is needed, activists say.

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Climate change activist Greta Thunberg manhandled by cops during coal mine demo

Greta, 20, was at a protest in Germany when she was led away by police along with other protesters on Sunday.

Daily Record

Clearance of German hamlet for mine said to be near-complete

Police say that a village in western Germany that is due to be demolished to allow the expansion of a coal mine has been cleared of activists, apart from a pair who remain holed up in a tunnel

The Independent UK

Anti-coal protestors accuse German police of 'pure violence' following demonstration clashes

Climate activists on Sunday accused police of "pure violence" after clashes during a demonstration at a German village being razed to make way for a coal mine expansion.

France 24

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Greta Thunberg joins anti-coal activists to save German village

Activists march in Luetzerath against a plan to tear down the village to build a coal mine extension.

Al Jazeera

Greta Thunberg calls for protest against expansion of German coalmine

Climate activist also denounced ‘police violence’ against campaigners at the abandoned village of Lützerath

The Guardian - UK

Thunberg joins march on German village in protest against coal mine expansion

Around 6,000 protesters - including climate activist Greta Thunberg - marched through mud and rain to the German village of Luetzerath on Saturday, according to a police estimate, demonstrating against the expansion of an opencast lignite mine.

Reuters

Thousands protest in Germany against coal mine expansion

Thousands of people are demonstrating in persistent rain to protest the clearance and demolition of a village in western Germany that is due to make way for the expansion of a coal mine

The Independent UK

Rural communities aren’t shirking in the battle against climate change

Members of the Bega Valley Shire community are all-in for the fight against climate change - a grass roots example of 'climate generosity'

The New Daily

German village clearance continues, Thunberg visits site

German police have continued the clearance of a village that is to due be demolished to accommodate the expansion of a coal mine, with activists still holed up in one building, in tree houses and a tunnel

The Independent UK

Thunberg: Germany 'embarrassing itself' by clearing coal mine activists

Climate activist Greta Thunberg condemned the forced removal of protesters from an abandoned village in western Germany as outrageous during a visit to the site, where demonstrators have dug in to try to stop the expansion of a coal mine.

Reuters

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Newcastle Herald

Late-year coal slump reversed as prices roar back beyond $US400 a tonne

Coal is back above $US400 a tonne

Reuters

Bulgarian lawmakers back coal plants with vote to roll back green targets

Bulgaria's lawmakers on Thursday backed a resolution aimed at avoiding an early phase-out of coal-fired power plants as more than 1,500 miners and utility workers demonstrated in front of the parliament in support of the coal industry.

Salon

US emissions rose in 2022

As renewables overtook coal, economic growth outpaced the rise in carbon emissions

The Conversation

Green hydrogen: why low-carbon fuels are not benefiting from high fossil fuel prices

The number and scale of projects using and making hydrogen, a gas that releases energy when burned without emitting carbon dioxide, is rapidly growing. If its construction goes to plan, a €2.5 billion (£2.18 billion) undersea pipeline will convey “green hydrogen” from Spain to France from 2030.

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Belfast Live

Northern Ireland coal investigation finds almost 10% of bags underweight

"Given the growing demand for coal across Northern Ireland and the continuing cost of living crisis, it is imperative that consumers do not get short changed"

Reuters

Riot police clear coal mine activists from abandoned German village

Riot police backed by bulldozers removed scores of activists from buildings in an abandoned village in western Germany on Thursday in a second day of confrontations over the expansion of a coal mine.

The Independent UK

Police press ahead with clearance of condemned German hamlet

Police are pressing ahead with the clearance of a condemned village in western Germany where activists are vowing to hold out against its demolition to make way for the expansion of a coal mine

Daily Record

Scots oil and gas workers need proper plan for the future

Record View insists it is vital we avoid the catastrophic destruction of communities that came with the end of our coal industry in the 80s.

Daily Mirror

Riot police evict people from village as it's demolished to make way for coal mine

Protestors who had camped out in trees and tents were seen "screaming" as they were forced out of a village yesterday to make way for a controversial new coal mine

AAP

Greens to push Labor on new carbon rules

The Greens are pushing Labor to consider a more ambitious revamp of its safeguard mechanism scheme, to stop new coal and gas projects.

The Guardian - UK

UK coal-burning power facility to stay open two years longer than planned

Ratcliffe-on-Soar’s fourth unit to be kept viable until late 2024 as ministers make request prompted by energy crisis

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