A court has ordered a Whitehaven subsidiary to pay $158,750 to NSW’s Environmental Trust after it polluted an ephemeral creek near its open-cut coal mine.
An EY cost-benefit analysis has costed the lifetime greenhouse gas emissions of a Glencore coal project at $70,000, but a separate consultancy has told the NSW government a figure of up to $294 million would be more accurate.
The High Court today refused a coal mining company's application for leave to appeal over a refusal of development consent linked to greenhouse gas emissions from coal combustion.
AGL will reduce its carbon emissions out to 2050 by at least an extra 90 million tonnes, and will partner with others to repurpose its fossil fuel generation sites into circular economy hubs.
Documents obtained by the Australian Conservation Foundation show a coal mining company is likely to have to surrender more than 840,000 ACCUs next February.
Although the federal government refused to sign a Glasgow pledge to phase out coal generation in the 2030s or soon after, a new AEMO report says Australia will have a coal-free grid by 2043.