by Guy Pearse The greatest coal rush the world has seen is being conducted as if climate change is not happening, and coal is king. It wasn’t always this way. Coalmining has a long history in Australia, but coal wasn’t an important export until the last few decades. Before 1960, Queensland had no coal-export industry. [...]

Surface mining may not move mountains. But a series of satellite views of a Boone County, West Virginia coal mine shows that the practice—also called mountaintop mining—can wipe out whole swaths of forests. Video: Hobet Mine, 1984-2009 Taken between 1984 and 2009 by NASA’s Landsat 5 satellite, the true-color pictures document the evolution of the Hobet mine [...]

WASHINGTON from the New Your Times — Coal-country lawmakers moved Thursday to impose a two-year moratorium on potential federal regulation of carbon dioxide and other climate-altering gases. Senator John D. Rockefeller IV, Democrat of West Virginia, said theEnvironmental Protection Agency should refrain from issuing any new rules on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants and other [...]

Environmental activists are attacking a $60 billion deal that will keep Chinese power stations supplied with Australian coal for at least the next two decades. Under the agreement announced last week, the Australian coal and iron ore mining company Resourcehouse will build a new mining complex to give China Power International Development 30 million tonnes [...]

High unemployment and powerful industry make new mining limits unlikely Most of us take it for granted that when we flip the switch, the lights will go on. Sure, we write the electric company a monthly check, but otherwise lend no thought to the source of the power — like urban kids clueless that chicken [...]

The following is an excerpt for the best selling expose’ ZERO Greenhouse Emissions – The Day the Lights Went OUT. See the book here. Looking at this time-lapse of a Coal Fired Power plant puts the 24/7 emissions from the worlds 50,000 power plants into a scary reality. Coal is mostly used to produce electricity, and [...]

When I heard that the Kingsnorth Power Station plans had been shelved by EON, I sent the link to the Guardian Newspaper article to a friend of mine in the Wales who has long crusaded against coal fired energy generation and the burning of fossilized carbon in the form of coal. Owen Jordan is somewhat [...]

Ask yourself could it, or has Elvis left the building? Excerpt from ZERO Greenhouse Emissions – The Day the Lights Went Out – Our Future World Chapter 4 – The Day Before The coal industry and the political parties supporting them would have us believe they can continue with the fossilized carbon release and offer [...]