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Japan's Marubeni might construct coal power plant in Egypt
Japan's Marubeni Corp and Egypt's El Sewedy Electric have settled with Egypt's state-run power utility to conduct a feasibility study into the building of a coal-fired electricity plant in Egypt.
read more... 03/03/2016
Germany must set out an ambitious plan for coal exit
Germany has to fast-track the country’s coal exit, according to a call by Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks.
read more... 21/01/2016
Czech minister intends to gradually phase-out hard coal mines
Hard coal mines in eastern Czech Republic will be eliminated by 2022 and the government hopes that the hard coal industry will slowly recover, led by cash-strapped miner New World Resources, as stated by Industry Minister Jan Mladek on Tuesday.
read more... 07/01/2016
China not to approve new coal mines until at least 2019
China, world’s largest coal consumer, has taken a tough decision to block any new proposed coal mines at least until 2019.
read more... 06/01/2016
Final farewell to the last British deep coal mine
UK has closed on December 18, 2015 its last deep coal mine Kellingley Colliery in North Yorkshire, marking the end of an era of deep coal mining, industry that once employed more than 1 million miners at over 3,000 collieries.
read more... 23/12/2015