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South Africa's power outages could reach critical levels this winter - likely scenarios

Over the past 15 years South Africa has been experiencing a gradually worsening number of electricity cuts. This state of affairs has prompted frustration among citizens, negative international economic sentiment and financial hardship for many businesses.

The Conversation

We need a National Energy Transition Authority to help fossil fuel workers adjust

Australia’s coal-fired power stations are exiting the grid. This transition is already well underway, as cheaper renewables displace coal and older generators close. Australia’s oldest coal plant, Liddell, is about to close. Eleven coal-fired power plants closed between 2013 and 2020, and at least seven others are slated to close…

The Conversation

Liddell closure won't affect NSW energy supply: Labor

Shutting the ageing Liddell coal-fired power plant won't affect the state's energy supply, but challenges remain according to the NSW government.

AAP

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This is not Utopia: how will the inland rail project stand up to real-life scrutiny?

The 1700km railway is being touted as a nation-building project, so we need to get the planning right

The Guardian - AU

Rail Safety Regulator charges Queensland Rail over Westwood train crash that killed worker

The Office of the National Rail Safety Regulator has filed three charges over the 2021 incident, in which the locomotive hit a parked coal train and killed a man.

ABC News

Why I helped stop a loaded coal train: protestor speaks out

Everyone will have their assumptions about why I did what I did, but I want you to hear it from me.

Newcastle Herald

Lords amendment to energy bill may stop new coalmines in England

Change to bill says opening and licensing of new coalmines by the Coal Authority to be prohibited

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Coal mine ban backed by House of Lords in parliamentary defeat for Government

THE Government has suffered a defeat at Westminster as peers narrowly backed a ban on the opening of new coal mines.

The National (Scotland)

Climate activists arrested after dumping coal off cargo train in Australia

Protesters climbed on train to unload coal using shovels

The Independent UK

One of 50 charged after coal train climate protest granted bail

A climate activist has been banned from every ARTC-operated rail corridor in the state.

Newcastle Herald

Obeids, Macdonald appealing Hunter Valley coal licence conviction

The trio have appealed to the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal

Newcastle Herald

Obeid, Macdonald appealing NSW coal licence conviction

A lawyer involved in an appeal by Eddie Obeid and his co-conspirators says the trio was convicted even though the acts they conspired to do were not specified.

AAP

Coal use plummets to 32-year low

Less coal was burned in the last three months of 2022 than in any quarter since December 1990.

Newsroom.co.nz

Australia climate change activists 'halt' coal train, 50 charged

Fifty climate change activists were charged with unlawful protest near Australia's biggest coal export port on Sunday after protesters climbed on a coal train.

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Scores arrested as climate activists halt Newcastle coal train

Dozens of people have been arrested after protesters scaled a train bound for the Port of Newcastle and shovelled coal out of its wagons.

AAP

Fifty arrested in Newcastle coal train protest

About 50 protesters have been arrested during a climate change protest near the world's largest coal export port of Newcastle.

Newcastle Herald

Coal stopped in its tracks: 50 climate protesters charged

Rising Tide direct action shuts down the coal line to Kooragang Island for at least three hours on Sunday.

Newcastle Herald

Climate protests block coal trains heading to the Port of Newcastle

Rising Tide Climate Activists demand an end to coal exports from Port of Newcastle

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G7 Ministers Agree to Cut Gas Consumption and Speed-up Renewable Energy

The Group of Seven rich nations have agreed to call for reducing gas consumption and increasing electricity from renewable sources while phasing out fossil-fuels faster and building no new coal-fired plants, France's energy transition minister said on Saturday. G7 environment and energy ministers, however, could not agree on a specific…

Newcastle Herald

Glencore follows other major miners in proposed separation of thermal coal from other operations

Glencore looks to spin off its Hunter coal mines

The New Daily

‘Bubbling like boiling broth’: Fracking link to Qld methane leak

The Condamine river in Queensland is bubbling with methane escaping from fracking operations, but Origin Energy says it's old news.

AAP

Methane worry for Qld river 'bubbling like a broth'

Environmental activists hold concerns for a Queensland river and surrounding areas after gathering footage showing methane bubbling close to a local weir.

Daily Mirror

Mystery on board Blackbeard the pirate's shipwreck finally solved after 300 years

Blackbeard's ship, the Queen Anne's Revenge, was found in 1996 after centuries underwater surrounded by coal despite sinking in 1719 - more than 100 years before it was used on ships

Caixin Global

Ex-State Asset Regulator in China’s Coal Heartland Targeted in Graft Probe

Retired provincial official Zhu Xiaoming is under investigation by local graft agencies for ‘serious violations of discipline and law’

Chronicle Live

More families can apply for an extra £200 to help with energy costs

Households which use heating oil, LPG, coal or biomass for heating can use bills from June 2022 to claim the money

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