The Guardian • coal
We need a working class climate plan, not capitalist greenwashing
Based on his government’s shiny new climate plan, it doesn’t seem like Justin Trudeau gets irony.
Read moreThe farce of BHP turning away from fossil fuels
BHP, the world’s second largest mining company, is selling off a lot of its global gas and oil assets to Australian outfit Woodside Petroleum.
Read moreClimate activist pays the price for government inaction
A climate activist who climbed on top of a coal train, which led to a five-hour delay of fifteen coal trains between Newcastle and Maitland,...
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Well may we say God Save the Queen […] Just two instances, from the time she first sat on the throne in 1952, dutiful representative...
Read moreCoal industry workers in Australia are taking their destiny into their own hands
The coal industry is to Australia what the Second Amendment of the US Constitution (granting citizens the right to bear arms) is to the United...
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In a sign of widespread frustration, nurses and that midwives in NSW took 24-hour strike action on the 1st September over their demands for safe...
Read moreLimiting global warming to 1.5° “on life support”
The United Nations Climate Change Conference – dubbed COP26 – has recently ended in Glasgow after two busy weeks in which 120 heads of state,...
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Anna Pha Last month Labor’s minister for environmental destruction, Tanya Plibersek, quietly granted Santos a licence to open 116 new coal seam gas wells in...
Read moreSurvivors take on big coal
Bushfire Survivors for Climate Action have praised environmental justice groups for launching a fresh Federal Court challenge, arguing that the Environment Minister can and must...
Read moreTwo new coal mines green-lit, gov’t ignores climate emergency
The federal government continues to fail Australia’s future generations as it deepens its commitment to coal.
Read moreAustralia: The big polluter
Australia is the world’s largest gas and coal exporter. There are currently 114 new or expanded fossil fuel projects awaiting approval. In 2021-22, governments in...
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Anna Pha UN Secretary-General António Guterres has issued a warning in the strongest terms that countries must start phasing out oil, coal and gas –...
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The Climate Council has labelled the decision to approve an extension to the Gregory Crinum coal mine in Queensland’s Bowen Basin until 2073 as “stunning...
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Oakey Coal Action Alliance, which is committed to saving the groundwater relied on by Darling Downs farmers in Queensland from the New Acland coal mine,...
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British PM Rishi Sunak has announced that two further barges will house around 1000 asylum-seekers off Britain’s coast. In a speech in Dover, Kent, Sunak...
Read moreThe sun will shine, the wind will blow
Australia is on the brink of a total collapse of its domestic energy market amid a crisis that has been decades in the making. If...
Read moreStrong opposition to gas project
A council in regional Queensland that hosts the highest number of coal mines of any local government in the state wants the Palaszczuk government to...
Read more“Defuse climate time-bomb”
“This is the earth’s last chance to avoid climate disaster,” warns the Intergovernmental UN Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The IPCC in its latest report...
Read more“Vastly out of line with the science”
The Climate Council has slammed Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek’s decision to ignore the climate risk of four polluting coal projects as “reckless” and “out of...
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