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New renewables cost data closes off coal power’s CCS escape route

Posted November 14, 2018 by Bob Burton
Tags: Boundary Dam, Canada, CCS, Kemper, Shand, US

The latest power generation costs data by the consultancy Lazard reveals that coal industry’s preferred climate escape route of promoting carbon capture and storage on coal power plants has disappeared as a financially viable option.

Adani’s desperate bid to sell Carmichael coal to Vietnam

Posted May 23, 2018 by Bob Burton
Tags: Adani, Australia, coal, Energy, pollution, Vietnam

The invitation of an Adani Mining executive to speak on coal procurement at an “energy roundtable” in Hanoi organised by an Australian Government agency is symptomatic of the desperate challenge the company faces in getting its Carmichael coal project off the ground.

Adani’s forlorn hope that the global coal market will save its Carmichael mine

Posted May 16, 2018 by Bob Burton
Tags: Adani, Asia, Australia, Carmichael mine, India, thermal coal

Adani recently flagged that it is pinning its hopes for its beleaguered Carmichael thermal coal mine in Australia on growth in the Asia Pacific market, even though the Australian Government’s own resources forecaster is now painting a gloomy picture for coal exporters.

BHP gives the World Coal Association the cold shoulder, but the company is no climate saint

Posted April 11, 2018 by Bob Burton
Tags: BHP, coal, Colombia, Energy, Minerals Council of Australia, NSW, World Coal Association

BHP has a lot riding on lobby groups pressing the case for new climate-damaging coal plants. But it far prefers to have third-parties it funds do the dirty work rather than have to wear the damage to its own credibility.

Global new coal plant pipeline keeps shrinking

Posted March 21, 2018 by Bob Burton
Tags: China, coal, Energy, India

The rapid decline in the number of coal plants being proposed, built and commissioned offers hope of achieving the 2015 Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to between a 1.5 °C and 2 °C temperature increase.