THE WESTERN Australian Greens are questioning Labor’s commitments to combat climate change, citing the government’s support for three coal-fired power stations.
04/09/2008
THE NATIONAL Water Commission has released a report that indicates water consumption would soar further if carbon capture and storage methods (CCS) were built into coal-fired power stations.
10/08/2009
PROTESTERS have picketed Premier Anna Bligh’s South Brisbane electorate office as well as Mining and Energy Minister Stephen Robertson and Climate Change Minister Kate Jones offices in an attempt to persuade the government to phase out coal-fired power stations.
10/06/2009
VICTORIA’S Energy and Resources Minister Peter Batchelor has announced a state government funded study has found ways to significantly reduce the cost of adapting carbon capture technology for its coal-fired power stations.
20/02/2009
VICTORIAN Police have arrested three protesters who have demonstrated at the Hazelwood power station near Morwell in Victoria on 28 March 2009.
30/03/2009
AUSTRALIA is set to “clean up” thousands of coal-fired power stations to protect its coal export industry, according to the Australian Prime Minister.
25/11/2008
MATERIALS scientist William Rickard and his colleagues from Curtin University, in Perth have developed a way to turn a by-product from coal-fired power stations into safer fly ash polymer cements.
22/07/2009
ENERGY and Resources Minister Peter Batchelor has announced that the Victorian Government has signed two ground-breaking agreements with Japan that strengthen global efforts to reduce future greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power generation.
09/09/2009
THE Australian Energy Regulator (AER) has come under attack for its billion dollar plan which will boost investment in polluting coal-fired power stations.
05/03/2009
PIONEERING clean coal company ZeroGen is preparing to move forward the completion date for a commercial clean coal power station to as early as 2014.
27/08/2008
PENALTIES for those who deliberately trespass or interfere with critical electricity infrastructure will be increased under changes introduced into Parliament on 13 October 2009.
13/10/2009
A POWER generation firm is calling on the government to include waste coal mine gas generation to soften the impact of the emissions trading scheme (ETS) to hit Australia by 2010.
10/12/2008
ENERGY Developments and Envirogen have joined forces in a bid to gain renewable energy classification after the Rudd Government’s proposed legislation was delayed.
23/06/2009
WORLD first laws allowing companies to capture and bury carbon dioxide emissions from power stations are being considered in Canberra.
18/08/2008
LOY Yang Power has signed a memorandum of understanding with MBD Energy to potentially use algae-based technology to reduce the emissions of a brown-coal power station.
15/05/2009
SIEMENS will connect a coal mine and power station with a 13.5km long belt conveyor system in Germany’s Saxony region.
21/08/2008
SIEMENS will connect a coal mine and power station with a 13.5km long belt conveyor system in Germany’s Saxony region.
21/08/2008
AN AUSTRALIAN coal miner is looking to raise up to $500m to pay for expansion work in the Hunter Valley.
18/09/2008
ANGLO Coal is cashing in on the recent wave of coal seam gas (CSM) consolidation with the sale of its Dawson Seamgas business plant in Queensland.
09/01/2009
NEW Hope says the drastic decline in thermal coal prices dues to the downturn will not stop it from expanding its New Acland mine.
16/03/2009