Courts rebuff coal in Pakistan, US & India; global banks baulk at role in Coal India sale.
IEA Special; Pakistan court freezes proposed plant; China considers more coal cuts.
BHP Billiton Special; US First Nation rejects coal railway; German mine curb proposed.
Dutch bank dumps thermal coal lending; Indian ‘ultra-mega’ power plant plan scrapped.
China coal peak, what the IEA missed and Europe coal use keeps on falling.
This week the German Government has announced coal plants will be required to close, Greenpeace have released a major report on pollution from coal mines in South Kalimantan in Indonesia, a Turkish administrative court has rejected environmental assessment reports for a proposed US$2 billion coal power station and the largest Norwegian pension fund manager has announced it is dropping its investments in 27 coal company stocks.
400km march in Bangladesh to save world's largest mangrove forest from a new coal plant and World Bank urged to reverse Indonesia's guarantee to Central Java Power Plant.