The Latest Breaking News from Coal

Strange bedfellows: inside the campaign for the black soil plains

Farmers have invited crossbench MPs to join the campaign against Santos’s proposed coal seam gas development on the Liverpool plains

The Guardian - AU · Feb 25, 2023

The American right has gone to war with 'woke capitalism' – here's what they get wrong

Ron DeSantis, Florida’s Republican governor and likely future presidential contender, has opened up a new front in his party’s war on “woke capitalism”. He is proposing to change the rules around how public bodies within Florida borrow from the markets by issuing bonds.

The Conversation · Feb 24, 2023

Controversial 234 homes plan approved again - despite concerns over mineshaft dangers and 'ugly' houses

Proposals to build a £3m road and hundreds of homes in Springhead had been refused in 2018 but approved a year later

Manchester Evening News · Feb 24, 2023

Gemma Collins storms out of the National Eisteddfod in a brand new Welsh series

"When I think of Wales, I only really know it for the valley life. Loads of sheep poo, loads of sheep and loads of coal, and obviously my family being there"

Wales Online · Feb 23, 2023

Mystery of massive sinkhole in Caerphilly

The area has been fenced off and the ground stabilised while further investigations are carried out

Wales Online · Feb 23, 2023

Methane from Australian coal and gas could be 60% higher than estimated

Data released by the International Energy Agency leads to renewed calls for more emission cuts and block on new projects

The Guardian - AU · Feb 23, 2023

At least six killed in open-pit coalmine collapse in north China

Mining company operating in autonomous region of Inner Mongolia has history of safety violations

The Guardian - UK · Feb 23, 2023

China mine collapse kills at least 5 with 49 missing after workers buried in disaster

The death toll in the disaster has now risen to five as conditions in the area remain dangerous and the search had to be suspended for several hours after a second landslide hit the gigantic facility in Inner Mongolia’s Alxa League

Daily Mirror · Feb 23, 2023

Gravitricity and Czech state commit to work on energy storage

The plan is to turn a disused mine into a green energy storage system

Insider UK · Feb 23, 2023

NSW government hoses down suggestions Premier Dominic Perrottet was considering new state owned coal mines

State walks back from Perrottet's state owned coalmine hint

Newcastle Herald · Feb 23, 2023