Mining
The Darling Downs coal seam gas bomb

Will this be the year the Darling Downs coal seam gas bomb goes up? Lachlan Barker reports.  
Citigroup sees $100 trillion of stranded fossil fuel assets if Paris succeeds

Citigroup estimates that unless the world switches from fossil fuels, based on current market ...  
Do we want to stop governments flouting the law? Are you serious Senator Brandis?

Our chief law-maker, Attorney-General George Brandis, says the Abbott government is above the law ...  
Adani blames activists for stopping Carmichael coal mine

Indian mining giant Adani lashes out at environmentalists who sought to block a giant coal mine in ...  
Federal Court rules Adani approval invalid

Huge win for green groups with Federal Government’s approval of Adani’s Carmichael coal mine ...  
IPA: Coal lobbyist and climate skeptic factory

The fossil-fuel funded Institute of Public Affairs has just a released a report promoting the ...  
European mining dispute illustrates risks of ISDS in TPP

Highlighting the dangers to resource-rich Australia from ISDS clauses in trade agreements such as ...  
Will Bill Shorten understand the energy consumer must be king?

By 2030, it will be pretty clear that new-build wind and solar energy will win the technology ...  
Bravo Australia! Abbott Government gets big tick from U.S. climate change deniers

Happy days for the Abbott Government, as it gets the thumbs up for its untiring efforts promoting ...  
The battle against Shenhua ramps up: Koalas vs Coal incites civil disobedience

The pitched battle against Shenhua ramps up with legal action over koalas and threats of civil ...  
Coal vs Country: How Greg Hunt could have canned Shenhua to save the Plains

Greg Hunt’s claim that he could not have stopped the giant Shenhua coal mine due to its impacts ...  
Tony's Abbott COALition war on wind and solar will never stop

The Coalition's nobbling of the Clean Energy Finance Corporation is the latest in a long series of ...  
Submission Impossible: SA Royal Commission into nuclear fuel cycle

The SA Royal Commission into the nuclear fuel cycle is calling for submissions but the mechanics ...  
Greg Hunt approves disastrous Shenhua coal mine

The Abbott Government has confounded financial and environmental experts and betrayed the farmers ...  
OECD: Coal investment is most urgent climate threat

The head of the OECD says wealthy countries should help poorer nations that cannot afford to ...  
Coal, oil and gas — the subprime assets of the future

Financial rating agencies risk potentially enormous legal liabilities if they continue to under ...  
Financial disaster looms for Shenhua coal mine

Anyone who has their economic wits about them and cares about the environment, can see that the ...  
Time to end the 'gas is cleaner' crock

When you take a look at the destruction of the environment and farmland wrought by mining coal ...  

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