Browsing: Coal

• Coal company has track record of shoddy NGER reporting, Regulator says
  
• Federal Labor would sign more clean energy power purchase agreements
  
• Minister strips Independent Planning Commission of power to decide on coal mine

Under a worst-case scenario, it will take Engie 35 years to fill the Hazelwood coal mine pit with water, but the company is aiming to do it over 10 to 20 years, new documents show.

• Pact secures offtake deals for output from plastic recycling plants
  
• Government advisors warn of ash dam and biodiversity risks from coal project
  
• Nestlé switches to 100% renewables

NSW Liberal and Labor politicians have agreed in a new committee report that pollution limits on the state's coal power plants are outdated, and they want a Greens Clean Air Bill debated.

NAB today became the first major bank in Australia to introduce a cap on its exposure to the oil and gas industry.

• Alcoa commits to net-zero
  
• New national push to standardise waste reporting
  
• Coal heartland accounted for 87% of Victoria's SO2 emissions

• Origin Energy cuts Eraring emissions by 4%, almost doubles fly-ash re-use
  
• Telstra ramps up use of local credits, investigates scope 3 emissions
  
• Victoria assessing all water options to fill coal mine pits

The NSW Court of Appeal has rejected arguments by a coal company that it was unlawfully refused consent for a mine because of invalid concerns about scope 3 emissions.

Two Whitehaven subsidiaries have been fined a total of $372,500 for clearing three access tracks in the wrong locations, failing to prepare a rehabilitation plan, and drilling boreholes in the wrong places.

A mothballed Glencore mine is leaking large quantities of methane, and the company has ceased applying control measures, according to a new report from the Australian Conservation Foundation.