#Australia #protest forces #ship to abort arrival at #coal port, 170 arrested
The #climate activist group Rising Tide, which organised the 50-hour protest that started on Friday, said the vessel forced to turn around was a coal ship.
#coal
Age of Invention: The Coal Conquest
#history #coal #industry #industrialRevolution
under the pressures of a growing population, with people requiring ever more fuel both for industry and to heat their homes, England saw dramatic deforestation. With firewood in ever shorter supply, its price rose so high as to make coal a more attractive alternative, which despite its problems was at least cheap. This deforestation story is trotted out constantly in books, on museum displays, in conversation, on social media, and often even by experts on coal and iron. I must see or hear it at least once a week, if not more. And there is a mountain of testimonies from contemporaries to back the story up. Again and again, people in the late sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries complained that the woods were disappearing, and that wood fuel prices were on the rise.
And yet the deforestation thesis simply does not work. In fact it makes no sense at all.
https://www.ageofinvention.xyz/p/age-of-invention-the-coal-conquest
Typical American (consumer) view of Ukraine
It’s quite evocative of how the US views Ukraine: as nothing more than an abject pawn to be moved around on the board in the great game for those “trillions” he’s salivating over.
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-91024-european-antinomy-squeezes
#USA #US #ukraine #ukrainian #map #minerals #resources #iron #coal #salt #blacksoil #american #money
Coal-filled trains are likely sending people to the hospital | Ars Technica
The study found that residents living near railroad tracks likely have higher premature mortality rates due to air pollutants released during the passage of uncovered coal trains. The analysis of the San Francisco Bay Area cities of Oakland, Richmond, and Berkeley shows that increases in air pollutants such as small particulate matter (PM 2.5) are also associated with increases in asthma-related episodes and hospital admissions.
Another reason to get rid of fossil fuels
#coal #railway #asthma
Teck #Coal is polluting mountain streams in SE #BritishColumbia....again #pollution
https://thenarwhal.ca/bc-teck-coal-fisheries-act-charges/
Kremlin using coal subsidies to force Russian passports on residents in occupied Kherson Oblast
Moscow-installed illegal occupation authorities in Kherson Oblast are offering coal subsidies for heating purposes, but only to those residents who became Russian citizens, the Ukrainian military's National Resistance Center reported.
As part of its forced passportization strategy, Russia creates special incentives oriented toward residents in occupied Ukrainian territory to adopt Russian passports. At the same time, those Ukrainians who refuse Russian citizenship are often threatened with deportation or being forcibly mobilized into the Russian military.
#RussiaInvadedUkraine #WarCrimes #heating #blackmail #coal #subsidies #HumanRights #Imperialism #passports #Ukraine #StandWithUkraine
WE ARE GOING DARK BY 2023. NO #COAL, NO NATURAL #GAS, #NO #YOU. EYE FOR AN EYE 12-4-2023
https://www.bitchute.com/video/zmyzRorV8FW5/
https://www.bitchute.com/video/Ng2orrJ7Ao8r/
#INDIA #COAL #cremation #Benares
~Trucking Past The Orange Cone Of The Danger Zone~
Support Coal, Buy an EV!
What?
This article is primarily aimed at "coal country", my fellow West Virginians, Kentuckians, who want to support the coal industry.
An EV powered by coal-generated electricity results in less CO2 than any internal combustion engine car. This article covers all the details.
https://shuttersparks.net/support-coal-buy-an-ev/
#EV #EVs #ICE #coal #co2 #pollution #electric #electricity #diesel #gasoline
good news from the Knitting Nannas and Friends (Sydney faction)
"🎉 Congrats @MoveBeyondCoal
“Banks have lost interest in funding Whitehaven’s financially reckless and environmentally ludicrous coal expansion plans in the midst of a climate crisis. NAB and Westpac have finally turned their backs on Whitehaven”
the SMH asks "what went wrong here?" Nothing - it's all turned out pretty good
"Anybody who’s in thermal coal is going to be facing similar challenges in mobilising funding from traditional sources,” Ball said. “It is increasingly difficult being a coal producer to attract external funding,” he said, adding that the miner was instead focus on sourcing loans from the US debt capital markets next year." hahah yeah good onya USA - still up for saving us ;)
U.S. power generation from renewables surpassed coal for the first time, says EIA
In 2022, generation from renewable sources such as wind, solar, hydro, biomass and geothermal surpassed coal-fired generation in the U.S. electric power sector for the first time. That’s according to new data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s Electricity Power Monthly.
https://www.power-eng.com/renewables/u-s-power-generation-from-renewables-surpassed-coal-for-the-first-time-says-eia/
#coal, #u.s., #nuclear, #administration, #renewables, #energy, #information, #news, #gas
#Coal fired power station in #europe, building started in 2016, will be operational from 2023, financed by public money, also from #Germany
"In 2015, the expansion total cost was estimated at 1.4 billion euros. #German development bank agreed to provide a 739 million euro bond loan in 2013, supported by the German Export Credit Agency #EulerHermes and arranged by the #KfW IPEX Bank. Besides KfW, the project has struggled to secure funding. The #European Investment Bank has withdrawn funding from the expansion project because of its high levels of #CO2 emissions and other pollutants."
