Mining
Coal price rally puts Adani Power under catastrophic financial pressure

Lachlan Barker investigates reports on whether Adani is proceeding with its plans for a mega-c ...  
Exhuming South Australia's nuclear waste import dump

The SA nuclear waste dump may be dead in the water, but a nuclear waste import plan may now be a ...  
Farming versus mining: Is the Andrews Government the new "country" party?

Abandoned by the Coalition's misinformation on coal seam gas, Victorian farmers have found a new ...  
Papering the cracks: Australia’s dangerous uranium deal with India

Thanks to new legislation, Australian uranium mining corporations are now free to be irresponsible ...  
On shaky ground: Australian uranium and Fukushima

'There is a clear chain of consequence from a failed nuclear facility [in Japan] to the back of a ...  
Does Queensland need an LNG industry?

As Lachlan Barker argues, Queensland could shut the LNG industry down tomorrow without any sign ...  
Turnbull's continuing support for fossil fuels imperils us all

 The Turnbull government’s continuing support for fossil fuels imperils us all abandoning all ...  
Re-Powering NSW 2016 Conference: As long as it is coal, gas and nuclear

Lachlan Barker reports on the fossil-fuel-driven agenda of the NSW conference, Re-Powering NSW ...  
Plebiscites, climate science denial and other Coalition diversions

John Quiggin discusses the Turnbull Government's regressive stance on reforms and the overarching ...  
Drayton South mine will exceed air quality limits and must be rejected

Anglo American's proposed Drayton mine is based on inadequate estimates and must be denied, writes ...  
Queensland fast tracks 'reckless' and 'indefensible' Carmichael coal mine

Against all advice to the contrary, Queensland is fast tracking the 'indefensible' Carmichael coal ...  
Despite Baird's continued denial, coal seam gas is finished in NSW

Lachlan Barker discusses why coal seam gas (CSG) is no longer a viable energy option, both from an ...  
Back on the radar: Developing nuclear reactors along with storing nuclear waste

South Australia's plan to store the world's radioactive waste also provides the necessary ...  
Coalition climate numbskulls back again flogging CCS at a cost of $209 billion

The Coalition's latest brainsnap of flogging Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) as a solution to ...  
SA parliamentary committee questions economics of importing nuclear waste

The economic benefits of SA's push for a global nuclear waste dump took a negative turn during ...  
How Esso steals Victoria's water due to the hidden impacts of gas exploration

Gippsland farmer and community mining activist, Tracey Anton, investigates the hazards and hidden ...  
Will Buru Energy's plan to frack the Kimberleys cost Barnett the election?

WA Labor's pre-election commitment to a public inquiry on fracking is gathering support after the ...  
Time for a mining rehab tax

Lachlan Barker discusses Australia's broken mining industry and the urgent need for a mining ...  

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