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How 2 Hollywood stars plan to save a team, and a town, 'desperate for a lifeline'

LOS ANGELES — Coal and steel built Wrexham, a market town wedged between the Welsh mountains and the lower Dee Valley in northern Wales. But soccer has long sustained it.

Los Angeles Times

GM Reinstates Dividend, but These 2 High-Yielders Are Better Buys

General Motors (GM) recently reinstated its quarterly cash dividend after a hiatus of two years. At 9 cents a share, it is a vast reduction from the 38 cents a share paid back in April 2020. With persistent economic turbulence and GM’s priority to spend massively to compete in the…

StockNews.com

Pay up: mining and gambling companies told not to expect sympathy over Queensland tax hikes

Campaigns against changes to coal royalties and betting taxes given short shrift by government and advocates

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Hospitals' slow coal switch: 'Health is the largest carbon emitter in public sector'

Hospital coal boilers are being replaced, but some say the pace is too slow

Newsroom.co.nz

A tale of two climate policies: India's UN commitments aim low, but its national policies are ambitious – here's why that matters

At the United Nations climate talks in Glasgow in 2021, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi surprised the world when he announced that his country would zero out its greenhouse gas emissions by the year 2070. It was a landmark decision, acknowledging that long-term decarbonization is in India’s interest.

The Conversation

Nathan Tinkler circling Dartbrook underground mine as its debt-laden owner considers a sale

Nathan Tinkler's tilt at Dartbrook

Newcastle Herald

Controversial $1bn Dendrobium coalmine expansion plan abandoned by mining company

South32 says expected financial returns on project do not justify investment as green groups welcome decision

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Australian company South32 scraps Dendrobium coal mine extension plans in NSW

Australian mining company South32 has announced it will not proceed with a plan to extend its Dendrobium coal mine beneath Sydney's drinking water catchment.

ABC News

Push for Upper Hunter nuclear power station

Liddell coal-fired power station would be an ideal location to build a nuclear power station, a Senate committee has been told.

Newcastle Herald

Stephen Galilee: why raising coal royalties is not the answer

Calls to introduce a Queensland-style royalties system in NSW are shortsighted, and potentially very damaging to the Hunter economy, writes Stephen Galilee

Newcastle Herald

Retired Singareni staff seek supply of medicines, better pension

‘Many pensioners are living in penury in the absence of pension worth any mention’

The Hindu

Running the lines around Dyke Point

They may not be in boats that are as large and as imposing as the tugs, but the linesmen are an integral part of Newcastle harbour life, helping tie up and release more than 2000 ships each year - and that is just one activity that is part of the…

Newcastle Herald

One killed, another injured, when coal mine collapsed in Meghalaya’s Shallang area; owner arrested

“The owner was identified as Hubath R. Sangma of Gurakalam village in the district’s Shallang area after an investigation into the mishap,” officials said.

The Hindu

Solar briefly overtakes coal in Australia as number one source of power nationally

Solar energy eclipsed coal as the lead source of power across the national energy market at lunchtime on Friday, something experts say will become more common.

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Australia's energy crisis makes winners out of fossil fuel exporters and losers of everyone else, expert says

Record high energy prices are proving to be no picnic for the country's biggest power providers. So who is 'making out like a bandit'?

The Hindu

Mishap at Meghalaya coal mine leaves one dead, another hurt

The incident happened in the Shallang area of West Khasi Hills district

The Guardian - AU

Greens signal fresh fight over fossil fuels as Labor revamps safeguard mechanism to cut industrial emissions

Albanese government confident its policy will have bipartisan support, limiting the Greens’ ability to secure any concessions

Evening Standard

Our politicians are ducking the hard truths of this energy crisis

Whatever you think of the various proposals to deal with the energy crisis, one fact stands out beyond all others. As a nation, we are worse off. Natural gas prices are eight times higher than they were at the beginning of 2021. Much of the increase occurred before Vladimir Putin…

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BHP pauses coal investments in Qld over royalty rises, future of Blackwater South mine in doubt

The decision means investment into the new Blackwater South coal mine in central Queensland is now paused.

Newcastle Herald

Push for 400 per cent increase in coal royalties

NSW coal royalties could increase by 400 per cent this financial year, leaving billions more to support regional communities undergoing energy transition, if a progressive royalty system that better reflected record coal prices was introduced.

Newcastle Herald

Letters: Newcastle's music scene can't afford to lose iconic venue

Newcastle Herald readers have their say

Reuters

To rescue 10 trapped miners, Mexico turns to German, U.S. companies

Mexico will ask both a German and a U.S. company to help rescue 10 miners who have been trapped in a coal mine for nearly two weeks, officials said on Tuesday, as families urged quicker action to save the trapped men.

The Hindu

Railways tests Super Vasuki to mark I-Day

The 3.5-km-long train can carry over 27,000 tonnes of coal

Evening Standard

BHP to make record dividend payment after coal recovery lights up its annual earnings

World’s biggest miner expects demand from China to be a ‘source of stability’ in the year ahead

USAFacts

Total methane emissions have declined since 1991, but methane emissions from livestock are up

The Inflation Reduction Act aims to reduce emissions from agriculture and natural gas systems , the top two sources of methane emissions

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