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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Issue #2113
COLOMBIA: President Gustavo Petro has signed a decree prohibiting coal imports to Israel, citing the humanitarian crisis in Gaza caused by Israel’s ongoing military action....
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Issue #2147
GLOBAL BRIEFS
CUBA has reaffirmed its commitment to international solidarity on multiple fronts in the face of growing aggression from the US. In a meeting at the...
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Issue #2028
Coal 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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Issue #2161
GLOBAL BRIEFS
USA: The military occupation of Washington DC continues to escalate as the Trump administration prepares for a similar occupation of Chicago. Republican governors from six...
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Issue #2025
DINGO
Well may we say God Save the Queen […] Just two instances, from the time she first sat on the throne in 1952, dutiful representative...
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Issue #2022
DINGO
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...
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Issue #2104
Australian coal: the state of play
The recent Federal Budget has highlighted the significance of the mining industry, especially coal, to the Australian economy. Australia has the third largest reserves of...
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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Issue #2044
GREEN NOTES
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...
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Issue #1980
Two 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.
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Issue #2060
Survivors 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...
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Issue #2129
LA fires a warning of things to come
Global Climate Scientists have confirmed 2024 was the world’s hottest since records began, eclipsing the previous record set in 2023 and raising the alarm that...
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Issue #2107
Coal royalties pay for Queensland government largesse
As part of its 2024-25 budget Queensland Labor Premier Stephen Miles announced subsidies to households telling the electorate that Labor recognised the hardship from cost-of-living...
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Issue #2105
Peter Dutton & the nuclear shit show
We watched in horror as Peter Dutton and a whole cavalcade of Coalition ministers rolled out their nuclear nightmare in a blatant attempt to keep...
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Issue #2058
GREEN NOTES
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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Issue #2029
Australia: 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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Issue #2069
DINGO
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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Issue #2176
GREEN NOTES
Global coal demand rose in 2025, reaching a record high of 8.8 billion tonnes, with an increase of 0.5 per cent expected for 2026. This...
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Issue #2156
The right side of history
A landmark decision by the NSW Court of Appeal to overturn the 2022 approval for Indonesian mining company MACH Energy, to extend its Mount Pleasant...
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Issue #2076
WA confirmed as climate pariah
Grassroots activists Lock the Gate Alliance have condemned the WA Cook government’s release of thousands of square kilometres for oil and gas exploration across the...
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Issue #2077
DINGO
Climate action group Lock the Gate Alliance has accused the NSW Minns government of breaking an election promise by allowing BHP’s planned Mt Arthur expansion...
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Issue #2056
DINGO
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...
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Issue #2151
Consequences
The Mid-North Coast of NSW recently experienced record breaking flooding, after experiencing back to back extreme weather events in the last few years. Such disasters...
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Issue #2053
DINGO
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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Issue #2012
The 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...
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Issue #2156
NSW: drinking water in danger
A multinational mining giant has recently announced plans to explore for coal under more areas of the Sydney and Illawarra drinking water catchment highlight how...
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Issue #2084
GREEN NOTES
Thanks to concerted organising and campaigning by environmentalists, Traditional Owners, farmers, communities and individuals there were some wins in 2023. Progress is far too slow,...
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Issue #2056
Strong 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...
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Issue #2090
DINGO
In the 18th century, there was joy among civilised people because thought had finally broken free of the cant of religion. It was hailed as...
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Issue #2148
GREEN NOTES
“Not only has the world already seen an increase in these extreme weather events, but over the coming decades, every region around the globe will...
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Issue #2053
“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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Issue #2047
“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...
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Issue #2118
DINGO
Senator Lidia Thorpe: “I just successfully passed a motion in the Senate to make the Attorney-General provide quarterly reports to the Senate about deaths in...
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Issue #2150
DINGO
The Mining and Energy Union is deeply concerned about safety in Victoria’s aging coal plants, following a significant safety incident at Yallourn. Earlier this month...
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Issue #2179
DINGO
The federal government gave the green light to more than 57,000 hectares of threatened species habitat destruction last year, making it the worst 12-month period...
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Issue #2167
DINGO
600,000 people recently took to the streets of London for Palestine. A reassertion of solidarity with a people facing genocide. A rebuke to PM Keir...
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Issue #2105
EDITORIAL
Do you ever get déjà vu, the feeling that you’ve been through something before? Sometimes, that’s because you have been through it before. So it...
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Issue #2165
Remembering the dead, for the sake of the living
Speech delivered by Mining and Energy Union (MEU) General President Tony Maher at the 2025 Northern Mining & NSW Energy District Annual Memorial Day. I’d...
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Issue #2106
Renewables rollout is ‘the only serious plan’
Clean energy backed by storage is the lowest-cost source of electricity for Aussie households and businesses, and Australia is well on the way to a...
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Issue #2095
Oppose toxic plans!
The Great Artesian Basin (GAB) is a massive aquifer that provides a crucial fresh water supply for rural communities and ecosystems across a vast area...
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Issue #2072
Unite to save the planet
“If nothing changes, we are heading towards a 2.8 degree temperature rise – towards a dangerous and unstable world,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned in...
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Issue #2165
Trump’s climate colonialism
US president Trump stunned and alarmed delegates with his arrogant and reckless one-hour rant to the UN’s 80th General Assembly on 23 September. Most notably,...
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Issue #2178
Fire season: Albanese adds petrol
Australia is breaking records, but not the sort to be proud of. Some parts of Australia recorded their highest temperatures ever this January. South Australia’s...
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Issue #2154
Renewables, not gas powering clean energy
Asked what his legacy would be, Anthony Albanese said “action on climate.” Since being elected his government has made over 30 coal and gas approvals,...
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