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BHP under pressure to dump pro-coal lobby groups over climate policy

Posted September 20, 2017 by Bob Burton
Tags: Australia, BHP, climate, corporate social responsibility, Energy, greenwashing, Minerals Council of Australia, Queensland Resources Council. NSW Minerals Council, World Coal Association

BHP now faces an acute dilemma: does it keep trying to both run with the hare and hunt with the hounds? Or does it opt to support the intent of the Paris Agreement and publicly dump the Minerals Council of Australia?

Protests grow over Russian coal pollution

Posted September 5, 2017 by Bob Burton
Tags: coal, coal dust, coal ports, pollution, Russia

As Russian coal companies have pursued new mining projects and increased exports into the Asian market through ports in the Far East, public protests against pollution have grown.

Indian Auditor-General finds public banks have US$1.8 billion at risk on dud coal plants

Posted August 30, 2017 by Bob Burton
Tags: coal, Energy, finance, India, stranded assets

Two of India’s leading public sector banks are at risk of losing a “significant proportion” of US$7.4 billion loaned over three years to private power producers for financially disastrous projects, according to a damning audit report released recently by India’s Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG).

The rise and fall of an Indian coal plant

Posted August 30, 2017 by Bob Burton
Tags: coal, Energy, India, stranded assets

A recent damning audit report by India’s Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) reveals many financial horror stories and a litany of basic errors in assessing the viability of proposed coal plants.

By train or by ship, coal causes trouble

Posted August 16, 2017 by Bob Burton
Tags: accidents, Australia, coal, Energy, Indonesia, pollution, shipping, Taiwan, US, Vietnam

The derailment of 30 coal wagons on the banks of the Clark Fork River in Montana is just the latest in a long list of coal transport accidents.