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Coal mining companies risk $16 billion due to climate change
A new study from the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) concluded that major coal mining companies find themselves at risk of losing $16 billion (£12.3bn) due to climate change.
read more... 24/07/2017
Drax accelerates plans for coal conversion to gas
Britain's Drax, which once owned Europe's most polluting coal-fired power plant, is accelerating plans to transform one of its six units to gas and could offer for a capacity contract as early as 2019, as stated by its chief executive on Wednesday.
read more... 20/07/2017
Coal mining companies struggle to deal with carbon emissions
The new report from the Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI) concluded that many coal mining companies find themselves having a hard time keeping their businesses up to par due to climate change and rising levels of carbon emissions.
read more... 13/07/2017
Alinta and Delta compete for Engie's Australian coal-fired plant
Chinese-owned Alinta Energy and a private Australian company are among the firms competing for the purchase of a coal-fired power plant in Australia from France's Engie SA, a sale that could bring in $1 billion, as mentioned by people familiar with the process.
read more... 26/06/2017
Netherlands will unlikely shut down coal plants soon
The leader of the Green Left party in the Netherlands declared on Friday that he did not consider that the nation's coal-fired power plants would shut down by the end of the next governing period.
read more... 19/06/2017