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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?

CoalWire 199, September 14, 2017

Posted September 13, 2017 by Bob Burton
Tags: Africa, Australia, Canada, China, coal, Energy, India, Myanmar, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, South Africa, Switzerland, Thailand, UK, US, Vietnam

Ex-US lawmaker pleads guilty to coal bribe; reinsurer drops lignite projects; solar and wind costs plummet.

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.

CoalWire 196, August 24, 2017

Posted August 23, 2017 by Bob Burton
Tags: Australia, Cambodia, China, coal, Energy, Europe, India, Japan, Malaysia, mining, Myanmar, Pakistan, Philippines, South Africa, Taiwan, Thailand, US

Trump blocks coal protection plan; China funds coal “zombies”; coal swallows Sydney water.

Tag: Energy

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

CoalWire 199, September 14, 2017

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

The rise and fall of an Indian coal plant

CoalWire 196, August 24, 2017