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Turkish coal plants in line for public subsidies
2016-09-06 10:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Turkish coal plants are in line for eye-watering public subsidies and exemptions from environmental regulations, under an amended energy package delivered by the countrys parliament, late last week. Turkey is a member of the G20, whose two leading economies the US and China agreed to ratify the Paris climate change agreement on Saturday. The G20 summit which ended in Hangzhou, China, yesterday also came under pressure to put a deadline to an old pledge to phase out fossil fuel subsidies....
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Australia seeks $120m for Great Barrier Reef damage from Chinese coal ship
2016-09-06 08:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AAP: The Australian government is seeking at least $120m from the owners of a Chinese coal carrier that destroyed part of the Great Barrier Reef. Shenzhen Energy Transport is arguing against paying for the clean-up of the Douglas Shoal, which was severely damaged when the Shen Neng 1 went off-course and grounded in April 2010. The federal court heard on Tuesday the crash site was contaminated with hundreds of kilograms of paint particles tainted with the highly toxic anti-fouling agent tributyltin,...
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Australia: Victoria to permanently ban fracking and coal seam gas exploration
2016-08-30 03:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Victoria is to introduce a permanent ban on all onshore unconventional gas exploration, including fracking and coal seam gas, becoming the first Australian state to do so. The premier, Daniel Andrews, made the announcement on Tuesday morning and said legislation for the ban would be introduced later this year, making the current moratorium on unconventional gas exploration permanent. A parliamentary inquiry last year into onshore unconventional gas in Victoria received more than 1,600 submissions,...
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EIA: energy-related CO2 emissions from natural gas surpass coal as fuel use patterns change
2016-08-18 11:55:23| Green Car Congress
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NV Energy Seeks Approval for Renewable Project, Earlier Retirement of Coal
2016-08-17 19:05:00| Transmission & Distribution World
In its Aug. 15 Emissions Reduction and Capacity Replacement second amendment filing, NV Energy requested that the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada approve a new 100-megawatt solar project read more
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