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The debt bubble has to burst

Date: 09-Mar-10
Author: Karen Maley
But while the markets continue to party, one dark thought presents itself. What happens if someone looks outside and sees that the real US economy is still in deep trouble? It is plagued by high unemployment, continuing weakness in the housing market, and faces mounting problems in commercial real estate that threaten to further destabilise the banking system.

What happens when the penny drops that massive government spending packages, combined with unprecedented money printing by central banks, have not produced a sustainable economic recovery?

As RBS strategist Bob Janjuah points out in his latest newsletter, the "gap between the fantasy in markets...versus the reality of the real economy/private sector, is already worryingly large, but risks becoming dangerously large." Once again, markets are mispricing risk. In their frantic pursuit of high returns, investors are oblivious to the true risks they're taking.
The conclusion is inevitable; the bubble must burst. And Janjuah fervently hopes that that this happens sooner, rather than later. "The longer we are forced to wait, the bigger the bubble will be and the more horribly damaging the bursting process will be. And if we are forced to wait and the bubble gets anywhere like the one that went pop in late 2007 I have zero idea who will credibly be able to bail us all out the next time round. Certainly not our governments."

Australias coal renaissance

Date: 09-Mar-10
Author: Bernard Keane
Australia is set for a renaissance in coal-fired power, with up to 12 new coal-fired power stations planned across the country. According to information collated by Greenpeace, new coal-fired plants are under construction, planned or proposed in all states except Tasmania.

A tangled web for NSW power

Date: 09-Mar-10
Author: Keith Orchison
Built as coal burners, the new plants would emit between 10 and 12 million tonnes of greenhouse gases a year. A set of state-of-the-art combined cycle gas burners would emit less than half as much carbon dioxide (Australia's coal renaissance, March 8)

Brown & Anor v Coal Mines Australia; Alcorn & Anor v Coal Mines Australia Pty Ltd

Date: 06-Mar-10
Author: Supreme Court NSW
**** A MASSIVE DECISION UPHOLDING LANDHOLDER RIGHTS OVER EXPLORATION **** Ed

Orders:
The decision of the Warden's Court as well as the determination which accompanied it and the interim and final determinations of the arbitrator, be quashed and set aside.
The usual order is that the defendant bears the plaintiffs' costs of the proceedings.

Major Supreme Court win for CCAG and Landowner Rights against Coal Exploration

Date: 06-Mar-10
Author: Dr Pauline Roberts - CCAG
[Congratulations CCAG from Wybong Action Group and Rural Landownersthroughout NSW. Ed.]
WATERSHED DECISION TO HOLD MINERS MORE ACCOUNTABLE
Liverpool Plains farmers win Supreme Court case against BHP Billiton

In a landmark judgment, the NSW Supreme Court today found in favor of two Liverpool Plains farmers who challenged the right of BHP Billiton to enter their farms to explore for coal.
The decision has broad implications for all mining companies seeking access to private land in NSW to conduct exploration and exposes serious deficiencies in the way the current regime deals with environmental protection.
Supreme Court Justice Schmidt ruled that the Chief Mining Warden had erred in a number of ways when, last May, he granted BHP Billiton 'access arrangements' to explore for coal on the properties of the Brown and Alcorn families at Caroona.
Justice Schmidt found the 'access arrangements' had been granted in clear breach of the requirements of NSW Mining Act and, as such, were invalid. She said:
"I order that the decision of the Warden's Court as well as the determination which accompanied it and the interim and final determinations of the arbitrator, be quashed and set aside." (Justice Schmidt - NSW Supreme Court, 5 March 2010)
CCAG spokesman Tim Duddy said: "This is a watershed decision for NSW which will force mining companies to be properly accountable to the environment in a way they've never been required to before."
"It confirms what this community has said from the outset, that is, landholders have been denied fairness and justice in the way 'access agreements' have been imposed on them by the old Mining Warden's Court."
"We welcome this decision and look forward to the NSW Government now reviewing all of the processes governing mining and exploration in this State to ensure the environment and the rights of landholders are no longer treated as less important," Mr Duddy said.
A key component of the Supreme Court decision was the finding that mining companies must inform all landholders - including banks and other mortgagors - that they intend to seek access to specific lands to conduct exploration. Not doing so in relation to the Brown and Alcorn properties represented a breach of the NSW Mining Act.
It is believed to be common practice for mining companies not to notify mortgagors when seeking to enter properties under the Mining Act meaning a large number of other 'access arrangements' currently being used by miners may also now be invalid.
Justice Schmidt also made other important findings related to the conditions which are able to be imposed on mining companies in 'access arrangements' to provide better protection for the environment and rights of landholders.
- THANK YOU TO EVERYONE IN THE COMMUNITY AND BEYOND, AND IN PARTICULAR THE AUSTRALIAN FARMERS FIGHTING FUND, WHO HAVE SUPPORTED THIS FIGHT FOR OUR CLEAN FOOD AND WATER SUPPLIES.
The CCAG Committee

Network to monitor dust from new Upper Hunter power station

Date: 06-Mar-10
Author: JULIEANNE STRACHAN
Department of Environment and Climate Change would establish a dust monitoring network in the Upper Hunter, to look at whether the community was negatively affected by dust.

"Data is inconclusive as to whether the Upper Hunter has higher rates of respiratory illness than other areas of NSW," she said.

"It's not conclusive."

But Upper Hunter resident Bev Smiles said the station would more likely be run on coal and would contribute to air pollution.

"It will mean on-going devastation of the Hunter Valley and the coalfields to the west in the Gunnedah basin," she said.

"Until we have the air monitoring stations set up we won't have that baseline data but what we do know is that this is doubling the size of the power station.

"If it's coal, then there's known toxic emissions from coal-fired power stations and if it's gas then there's emissions from burning fossil fuels."

New power station approved for Hunter

Date: 06-Mar-10
Author: JULIEANNE STRACHAN
THE Upper Hunter will get another baseload power station, after the NSW Government approved yesterday Macquarie Generation plans for "Bayswater B".

The private sector is expected to build the 2000 megawatt station, now the Government has cleared the way by granting "concept approval" for either gas or coal.

Planning Minister Tony Kelly said yesterday the state would allow new baseload stations at Bayswater, near Muswellbrook, and at Mount Piper, near Lithgow.

"The [Bayswater B] facility will help secure long-term energy supply in NSW and provide a boost to the Hunter economy," Mr Kelly said.

"Up to 1000 construction jobs and around 160 operational jobs could be created."

The station will be built near the existing Bayswater power station.

Mr Kelly said he expected the private sector to lodge its own specific designs for the power station, including fuel source, before approval for construction.

Jerrys Plains Gassed

Date: 06-Mar-10
Author: BY IAN KIRKWOOD INDUSTRIAL REPORTER
A MASSIVE plume of orange dust sent skywards after blasting at the Hunter Valley Operations open-cut coalmine near Jerrys Plains is being investigated by authorities.

The dust plume was seen and photographed on Friday afternoon by Newcastle environmentalist Brian Purdue, who was driving along the Golden Highway at Jerrys Plains when it came into view.

"It seemed pretty enormous to me but I wasn't sure how often this sort of thing happened," Mr Purdue said.

Hunter Valley Operations is owned by the Rio Tinto subsidiary Coal & Allied, and spokeswoman Alison Smith said Friday's incident was "highly unusual".

"A yellow to orange plume is occasionally visible immediately after a blast, but is quickly dispersed by the wind," Ms Smith said.

"The colour comes from the interaction of water with the explosive material, or interaction with some clay material.

"The wind direction was considered prior to firing, but the density of the plume was extremely unusual.

"We have contacted the explosives supplier to help us determine the cause, and to discuss possible mitigation methods to ensure it does not happen again."

Dust and blasting noise have been major points of dispute between the coal industry and Hunter Valley horse studs.

Henry Plumptre, the managing director of Darley Australia, said the photograph was "unusual" but "dust from the spoil piles and the pits themselves are a daily occurrence".

"Flying in from Sydney the dust is particularly noticeable close to Muswellbrook," Mr Plumptre said.

Judge who criticised Labor refused court job

Date: 06-Mar-10
Author: Joel Gibson
THE career of a judge who criticised NSW Labor's dealings with donor developers is hanging in the balance after the government knocked back a request from the state's Chief Justice for him to work in the Supreme Court's short-staffed equity division.

The Attorney-General, John Hatzistergos, is refusing to explain why Justice David Lloyd's commission was rejected.

But the opposition says it appears to be political payback against a public servant who held the government to account.

Justice Lloyd angered the government last year when he described its secret negotiations over the state's biggest housing development as a ''land bribe''.

He ruled that the former planning minister Frank Sartor was biased when he approved projects for the Rose Group, an ALP donor, in Catherine Hill Bay and Gwandalan because he had agreed to look kindly upon them in exchange for 300 hectares of conservation land.

Experts undervalue the environment: Henry

Date: 06-Mar-10
Author: Peter Martin
THE Treasury boss Ken Henry has taken a swipe at the work of his own department and that of others on valuing the environment, saying much of it is flawed and fails to give proper weight to retaining Australia's unique biodiversity.

Fresh from producing the as-yet-unreleased Henry Tax Review and amid preparations for this year's budget, Dr Henry told an environment conference in Sydney that the part of his intergenerational report that had received the least attention was the section on environmental sustainability.

But not only did the wellbeing of future generations depend on the resources left to them by this generation, the environment was likely to become more important to them than it was to us.

Coal or Agriculture- ABC Radio - Nikki Williams propaganda

Date: 06-Mar-10
Author: 2BL - 702 - ABC
Coal or Agriculture- ABC Radio - Nikki Williams propaganda

WalMarts carbon ultimatum

Date: 04-Mar-10
Author: Giles Parkinson
Last week, the world's largest retailer, WalMart, laid down a challenge to its more than 100,000 suppliers around the world: it told them it intends to cut 20 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions from its supply chain within five years....
Woolworths has committed to cutting its emissions from stores and distribution centres by 40 per cent below business as usual by 2015, and by 25 per cent on a per square metre measure....
Bunnings has declared it will be "carbon neutral" by 2015, which it will achieve by cutting energy usage, trialling microgeneration of wind and solar on its rooftops, buying renewable energy and considering carbon offsets,....

Cars just got cleaner and faster

Date: 04-Mar-10
Author: Paul Gilding
....You could also have a car that plugs into the grid when you're not driving it. This means when the power is cheap because demand is low you will be able to charge your car. When there is high demand and power is expensive you can sell it back to the grid and make a profit. So your car effectively becomes a power station and you become a mini power company. An additional benefit of this is that the car fleet acts as a giant battery, enabling storage of intermittent renewables like solar PV and wind power.

By the way, they are also dramatically cheaper to run because electricity is so efficient at energy conversion....
when people come to believe that the electric car is going to be the clear winner, they will suddenly realise their old petrol car will have close to zero resale value within a few years. At that point there will be a rush to go electric, to avoid the inevitable price collapse in second hand petrol cars. This will of course be self-reinforcing when it takes off.

Of course we can't be sure which technologies, business models and companies will succeed. What we can now safely accept however is that with so many people and so much money focused on making this work, the time has clearly arrived when the internal combustion engine is heading for a rapid sunset.

Let your mind run over the implications of that for the oil industry and peak oil.

Mines and power go together to destroy Australia

Date: 04-Mar-10
Author: Keith Orchison
Regulation of residential retail power bills covers 28 percent of electricity supply in some States, it points out, and is "at or below" the cost of production. "This raises the question of possible cross-subsidies which could ultimately distort expansion and upgrade decisions and represent a significant chill on (power) investment."

On business as usual projections, Australia will need to increase its electricity generation by around 13,000 to 15,000 MW - above the existing 45,000 MW capacity - by 2020, the council says, at a cost of at least a billion dollars for each gigawatt (1,000 MW). "Yet the retail price structure for a significant share of the customer base is capped. It is difficult to see how the necessary investment will emerge without reforms to current arrangements.".... [If the mongrel bastards want the community to shell up for their power then let them provide the community FREE electricity - after all they don't share their profits with anyone but the greedy shareholders. Ed]

Scientists Call for Moratorium

Date: 04-Mar-10
Author: ScienceDaily (Jan. 8, 2010)
The authors -- hydrologists, ecologists and engineers -- are internationally recognized scientists, including several members of the National Academy of Sciences. They argue that the U.S. should take a global leadership role on the issue, as surface mining in many developing countries is expected to grow extensively in the next decade.

"The scientific evidence of the severe environmental and human impacts from mountaintop mining is strong and irrefutable," says lead author Dr. Margaret Palmer of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science and University of Maryland, College Park. "Its impacts are pervasive and long lasting and there is no evidence that any mitigation practices successfully reverse the damage it causes."

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  04-Nov-09
• A miner complaint
  03-Nov-09
• Lead-mining: the ugly truth about Mount Isa
  03-Nov-09
• Aussie oil spill hits Indonesia
  03-Nov-09
• Henrys tax plan mustnt ignore natures backlash
  03-Nov-09
• "Profitable" ETS scheme would now cost taxpayers $2.5 billion by 2020
  03-Nov-09
• Broadly speaking, 100 megabits a second may not help us
  03-Nov-09
• Strike action looms at Xstrata Tahmoor coal mine
  02-Nov-09
• Leaking PTTEP oil rig in Timor Sea on fire
  01-Nov-09
• Surging dollar hits chance of deal on ETS
  31-Oct-09
• Toll rises as sea life feed at oil spill
  31-Oct-09
• NT intervention failing to make a difference
  31-Oct-09
• Carbon déjà vu, all over again
  31-Oct-09
• Low-carbon jobs opportunity, Newcastle forum told
  29-Oct-09
• Clean coal strategy not viable for 20 years
  29-Oct-09
• Hefty bill to come from clean coal power
  29-Oct-09
• 25 million climate refugees by 2050
  27-Oct-09
• emissions treaty failure
  27-Oct-09
• Flood risk multiplies as the seas rise
  27-Oct-09
• Another sting in the tail of mosquito-borne viruses
  27-Oct-09
• Coalmine canaries face extinction in fatal trap
  27-Oct-09
• Rising seas may mean coastal development ban
  27-Oct-09
• Mining decision minister acted outside powers
  26-Oct-09
• Xstrata accelerates plans for coal port
  25-Oct-09
• Church spurns overture from mining firm
  25-Oct-09
• Xstrata agrees to USD 75 a tonne
  25-Oct-09
• Xstrata continues river clean-up
  25-Oct-09
• Xstrata announces no intention to make an offer for Anglo American
  25-Oct-09
• What you do not know about Vale and Xstrata
  25-Oct-09
• Either BHP or Xstrata is wrong
  25-Oct-09
• Obama puts the case for alternatives to fossil fuels
  25-Oct-09
• Greens agree that Coal-Air is not good enough
  25-Oct-09
• Muswellbrook Air Quality Con.... Suddenly the coal companies will supply their data
  25-Oct-09
• Coal ship pilots want $800 pw pay rise
  25-Oct-09
• Freightliner inks 10 year pact with Xstrata Coal
  05-Oct-09
• Xstrata given "Put Up or Shut Up" deadline for Anglo American offer
  03-Oct-09
• Xstrata Coal has lodged plans for a super pit
  03-Oct-09
• (For General Interest) Israeli Scientists Prove DNA Evidence Can Be Faked
  02-Oct-09
• Coal firms advertisements hit emissions plan
  29-Sep-09
• Boy, 10, on armed robbery charge in Muswellbrook
  29-Sep-09
• Australias population fairytale - Krudds Deception
  29-Sep-09
• Xstrata refuses to accept responsibility for greenhouse gas emissions
  26-Sep-09
• Xstrata shunts Asciano with its own trains
  26-Sep-09
• Coal bosses accused of toying with jobs: Xstrata & Friends Duplicitious Lying Scaremongering
  23-Sep-09
• Union warning over coal deal
  19-Sep-09
• Feds are burning: Garretts the word
  19-Sep-09
• Xstrata says on track for 2016 start of Tampakan project
  19-Sep-09
• coal row: Xstrata
  19-Sep-09
• Big delays in green loan scheme
  16-Sep-09
• Xstrata not swayed by strike action at NSW Hunter Valley mine
  16-Sep-09
• Xstrata Coal rejects "job security clause"
  16-Sep-09
• xstrata miners on strike
  16-Sep-09
• World Bank tells rich to pay their climate damage bill
  16-Sep-09
• Global warming opens Atlantic gateway
  14-Sep-09
• Australian economy not ready for climate deal
  14-Sep-09
• Nation ill-equipped for green future
  14-Sep-09
• Xstrata says no to strikers demands
  12-Sep-09
• Miners set to strike
  12-Sep-09
• Justice is with the coal protesters - Professor Clive Hamilton draws on UK case
  12-Sep-09
• Nicolas Sarkozys France to tax carbon pollution
  12-Sep-09
• Well sue on Murray River: Mike Rann
  12-Sep-09
• Push for maverick techniques to restore landscape
  12-Sep-09
• Officials ignored lead risks
  12-Sep-09
• AIR pollution in Lake Macquarie as bad as the Upper Hunter
  07-Sep-09
• Asthma toll on increase: DOUBLE STATE AVERAGES
  03-Sep-09
• Shock shutdown of coal loader quota system
  03-Sep-09
• Krudd, Garret & Xstrata sentence Great Barrier Reef to death
  03-Sep-09
• Xtstrata left with "An Unenforceable Right" to export Mangoola via NCIG
  28-Aug-09
• Skellatar Stock Route Miners Village (for Mangoola Mine) Rejected by Court
  28-Aug-09
• Hundreds of Ulan coal miners, families and retrenched workers stage demonstration in Mudgee.
  28-Aug-09
• Coal Rally Ending as China Shuns Imports, Opens Mines
  26-Aug-09
• Xstrata thinks the Chinese will keep on importing coal at an increasing rate
  26-Aug-09
• 20yo dies at Xstrata NT mine
  26-Aug-09
• Xstrata response to climate change and increasing costs
  26-Aug-09
• Xstrata- Its all about one psychopaths need for power and the ongoing acquisition of it.
  23-Aug-09
• Xstrata criticises investment barriers
  22-Aug-09
• Government should show support for coal: Xstrata says with forked tongue
  20-Aug-09
• Centennial appeals Court decision forcing Xstrata access to 2nd coal loader for Mangoola Coal.
  20-Aug-09
• Anglo investors say Xstrata deal dead
  20-Aug-09
• Xstrata injects billions into Hunter Valley projects
  20-Aug-09
• More job cuts at Ulan mine
  20-Aug-09
• Chance of class action against NSW Government over coalmining in Upper Hunter
  17-Aug-09
• Foreign hands all over Hunter mines
  17-Aug-09
• Help Bob Brown talk to Australia about climate change
  17-Aug-09
• NSW Nats will strike a balance on mining, agriculture and community: Humphries
  17-Aug-09
• Mangoola Coal - Nowhere to go ! - Centennial & NCIG have berths all tied up.
  13-Aug-09
• Ormet files layoff notice for all workers
  04-Aug-09
• BREAKFAST DEALS: What Crean didnt hear
  04-Aug-09
• Anglo squares up to Xstrata
  04-Aug-09
• Xstrata coal announces job cuts
  04-Aug-09
• Xstrata-cuts-workforces-at-australian-mines
  04-Aug-09
• Miner in hospital after cement truck accident
  04-Aug-09
• Xstrata to restart Oaky coking coal mine
  04-Aug-09
• Pacific National hooks up with Xstrata for a billion dollar decade
  04-Aug-09
• Australia one of worst animal destroyers
  29-Jul-09
• China hit with plummeting exports
  11-Jul-09
• Hunter coalmine closures possible
  11-Jul-09
• Chinas nuclear plans power uranium
  11-Jul-09
• Coal exports to China may fall as prices, shipping rates rise
  11-Jul-09
• Tim Flannery backs carbon store
  11-Jul-09
• Coalition urges carbon credits for farmers
  11-Jul-09
• Climate change is shrinking sheep
  11-Jul-09
• Arctic sea ice cover shrinks greatly
  11-Jul-09
• Australian shot dead in Indonesias Papua region
  11-Jul-09
• PM undermines hopes for global climate deal
  11-Jul-09
• El Nino
  11-Jul-09
• Climate warriors march
  11-Jul-09
• Anglo names chairman to lead Xstrata defense
  11-Jul-09
• South Africa: Xstratas Plans for Anglo Remain a Worry
  11-Jul-09
• Historical mines pose low health risk
  11-Jul-09
• Dont keep residents in dark on Cobbora Coalfield issue: Gay/Humphries
  02-Jul-09
• South African miners move to stop Xstrata and Anglo deal
  02-Jul-09
• South Africa retains mining merger concerns
  02-Jul-09
• Even all-share Xstrata-Anglo merger may be credit negative - Fitch
  02-Jul-09
• Xstrata green light for Tampakan Copper-Gold
  02-Jul-09
• Xstrata to study Philippines copper/gold project
  02-Jul-09
• In the drink: go-ahead for mining under citys water supply
  26-Jun-09
• Minerals boom powered huge rise in carbon emissions
  26-Jun-09
• Is Xstratas Davis taking the Mick?
  25-Jun-09
• Xstrata Courts Anglo American, Does This Merger Make Sense?
  25-Jun-09
• SAfrica says possible Anglo merger "unacceptable"
  25-Jun-09
• Anglo spurns Xstratas offer
  25-Jun-09
• Coal stocks moving north but well south of yesteryear
  22-Jun-09
• Xstrata Proposes Merger With Anglo American - Update
  22-Jun-09
• Climate change is happening here, now: US report
  19-Jun-09
• Half-truths on carbon emissions
  19-Jun-09
• Report shows north-west mining slump
  19-Jun-09
• Traders are predicting a major acquisition by BHP
  19-Jun-09
• Labor knew about toxic water threat
  19-Jun-09
• Santos, Petronas strikes Gladstone LNG sales agreement
  18-Jun-09
• Toxic metals threat
  18-Jun-09
• Climate change groups urge Australia probe
  16-Jun-09
• Big Business breaches Trade Practices Act with duplicitous climate change cost claims
  15-Jun-09
• Coal group coy about port exposure to rising seas
  15-Jun-09
• Labor lays energy trap for Opposition
  15-Jun-09
• Council Rate Increase Scandal
  14-Jun-09
• Council wants feedback on logo
  14-Jun-09
• No electoral investigation
  14-Jun-09
• Residents not happy with roads
  14-Jun-09
• China eyes 20% renewable energy by 2020
  13-Jun-09
• Chinas economy transforming in green revolution
  13-Jun-09
• Climate change talks need to change
  13-Jun-09
• Backflip on linking renewable energy to passing of ETS
  13-Jun-09
• Climate progress raises pressure for 15pc cut
  13-Jun-09
• 220 jobs to go as Singleton mine closes
  13-Jun-09
• Zero-carbon boffins aim to have us renewable-ready by 2020
  13-Jun-09
• Australia demands bushfire exemption in carbon treaty
  13-Jun-09
• Sensors too old to check ice
  13-Jun-09
• Beachfront residents on own against sea rise
  13-Jun-09
• Why 700,000 addresses face being washed off map
  13-Jun-09
• Activists call for green jobs
  13-Jun-09
• Xstrata mine closure?
  12-Jun-09
• Queensland Inspectorate investigates fatality
  10-Jun-09
• Carbon emissions must start falling in 2015
  08-Jun-09
• Gloucester farmers protest mining plans
  08-Jun-09
• Xstrata halts an Australia zinc mine after man dies
  08-Jun-09
• Caroona Coal Mine Wardens Decision
  07-Jun-09
• Land use war: two tribes dig in
  06-Jun-09
• AGL drilling to go on in Hunter
  06-Jun-09
• Scientists warn acid is killing oceans
  02-Jun-09
• NSW Premier jeered in Newcastle
  30-May-09
• China embarks on massive solar power push
  28-May-09
• Criticised monitoring company hired by Xstrata
  27-May-09
• Port in equation for LNG complex
  25-May-09
• Were sunk if commodity prices fall
  25-May-09
• Renewable energys 26,000 new jobs
  25-May-09
• Claim Carbon scheme to cost coal debunked by union
  24-May-09
• Emissions schemes $6bn boost to economy
  24-May-09
• Climate activists shut down Hazelwood digger
  22-May-09
• Warden upholds coalmining plan
  22-May-09
• Insurer blames climate change
  22-May-09
• Worker dies in Qld mining accident
  21-May-09
• Salt water dilemma behind a gas bonanza
  18-May-09
• Climate change could kill Coral Triangle
  17-May-09
• $60b super waste worry
  17-May-09
• Carbon capture schemes an expensive step into the unknown
  16-May-09
• Dramatic climate protest at Federal Parliament, eight arrested
  13-May-09
• Coal & Allieds Hunter Valley mine operation extended
  08-May-09
• Xstrata to consult shareholders on protest AGM vote
  08-May-09
• Mount Isas lead levels exceed standard
  08-May-09
• Wowser-in-Chief
  08-May-09
• Warming - its a health hazard
  07-May-09
• Climate deal will depend on others, so why not call Rudd and Wongs bluff?
  07-May-09
• Emissions trading delayed by a year
  04-May-09
• Power bills up $75 - and more to come
  01-May-09
• Dear coal plants, youre doomed
  01-May-09
• Big polluters win exemption from renewable energy
  01-May-09
• Economy in deeper mire than forecast
  30-Apr-09
• China set to pass U.S. in wind-power growth
  28-Apr-09
• We admit our past mistakes, says Clinton on climate change
  28-Apr-09
• Warrant of arrest out for masterminds of Billanes murder
  28-Apr-09
• Palparans legacy lives on in Mindanao
  28-Apr-09
• Children suffer as parents tossed out of work
  27-Apr-09
• Labor turns its back on regional Australia
  25-Apr-09
• G8 and poor nations vow to tackle species loss
  25-Apr-09
• Britain aims to cut emissions 34%
  24-Apr-09
• Coal burning must end, says scientist
  24-Apr-09
• Xstratas Philippine copper mine may cost US$5.2b to build
  24-Apr-09
• Centennial Shares Fall on profit downgrade
  24-Apr-09
• Vale Inco follows Xstrata in contract breakdown when it suits
  24-Apr-09
• NBN for just $2047.62 per vote
  24-Apr-09
• Xstrata says Philippine mine will need at least $5.2 bln
  24-Apr-09
• More than 100 million tonne steel oversupply from China this year
  24-Apr-09
• China facing looming aging crisis
  22-Apr-09
• Hundreds of millions will be hurt by climage change, Oxfam warns
  22-Apr-09
• Fight for offshore CSG orders as markets stagnate
  22-Apr-09
• Proposed emissions trading scheme flawed: Minerals Council
  22-Apr-09
• It takes legal action to force Glencore to honour its contracts
  18-Apr-09
• Lead Poisoning Claim Against Xstrata Non-Compliant - Court
  18-Apr-09
• Coal chain conspires to continue ruination of the Upper Hunter Valley
  16-Apr-09
• Rio does not expect a global recovery for up to 18 months
  16-Apr-09
• China says economic growth slowest in 10-years
  16-Apr-09
• Professor Ross Garnaut wont commit to ETS in current form
  16-Apr-09
• Curb wasteful lifestyles, Chinese climate experts urge
  16-Apr-09
• Climate plan hits coal mines
  16-Apr-09
• Fiddling at the edges as climate goes into tailspin
  15-Apr-09
• Eminent scientists on attack over Rudd emissions plan
  15-Apr-09
• Small farmers take fight to mighty miner
  13-Apr-09
• Xstrata axes Leonora underground project
  12-Apr-09
• Xstrata to Shutter Australian Nickel Mine in August
  10-Apr-09
• Xstrata to defend blood-lead level lawsuit
  10-Apr-09
• Rio cuts take mine job losses to 12,000
  08-Apr-09
• New lawsuit over Mt Isa blood-lead levels
  08-Apr-09
• Xstrata Speak with Forked Tongue - Wandoan set to go ahead
  08-Apr-09
• China, India reject climate agreement that obstructs economic growth
  07-Apr-09
• Maitland mans mine death shatters familys dream
  07-Apr-09
• Jobs market is drying up more swiftly than in either of the past two recessions
  07-Apr-09
• Clean coal remains a faraway dream
  07-Apr-09
• Fears for future after Antarctic dam breaks away
  07-Apr-09
• Infant iron levels worse than in Zimbabwe
  07-Apr-09
• Mining industry predator Xstrata still hooked on debt loaded acquisitions
  05-Apr-09
• Step up uranium export: Ferguson
  05-Apr-09
• US recession job losses top 5 million
  05-Apr-09
• River systems permanently damaged by criminally negligent Miners.
  05-Apr-09
• Workplace Ombudsman investigating BHP Billiton after Ravensthorpe mine shut
  05-Apr-09
• Hunters hospital treatment second best
  05-Apr-09
• A chance for a cleaner world goes begging
  05-Apr-09
• Father of three killed in Hunter mining accident
  05-Apr-09
• 8,000 miners strike in Colombia
  05-Apr-09
• Colombian coal trains stopped by labor strike
  05-Apr-09
• Look Whos Politicizing Justice Now
  05-Apr-09
• Upper Hunter Valley - Coal miner dies from head injuries
  04-Apr-09
• Mt Isa still waiting for air monitoring
  04-Apr-09
• US unveils ambitious greenhouse target
  01-Apr-09
• Behold the green, renewable world of 2050
  01-Apr-09
• Anger over call to scrap coal plans
  01-Apr-09
• US greenhouse bid puts pressure on Rudds plan
  01-Apr-09
• Xstratas Mt Isa Mines is Australias top polluter
  01-Apr-09
• Aust officials & Xstrata-SMI in closed-door security meeting following Execution of Elizier Boy Billanes.
  01-Apr-09
• KRuDD - Serial Pest and Know-It-All
  31-Mar-09
• State owns biggest polluters
  31-Mar-09
• Scrap coal plan, says Rudds man
  31-Mar-09
• Intervention is hurting health
  31-Mar-09
• European Stocks Drop Most in Four Weeks as U.S. Warns on Banks
  31-Mar-09
• Aust Newcastle coal exports fall 21.5%
  31-Mar-09
• Tahmoor trains slow for Old King Coal
  31-Mar-09
• The Execution of Eliezer "Boy" Billanes - Xstrata SMI implicated
  29-Mar-09
• Climate action rises above hot air
  28-Mar-09
• Oil company cost cutbacks threaten future oil supply
  28-Mar-09
• Mandarins hit the wall as China slows
  27-Mar-09
• Hypocrite extolls virtue of "the need for swift action to reduce emissions"
  27-Mar-09
• Hidden costs of fossil-fuel power
  27-Mar-09
• Gas glut puts coal under pressure
  23-Mar-09
• Big coal digs in on emissions
  23-Mar-09
• Economic index contracts 3.1pc, signalling recession
  23-Mar-09
• Labors dirty coal dependency
  23-Mar-09
• Secret searches spreading too far
  23-Mar-09
• Protest at secret search powers
  23-Mar-09
• Emissions trading at centre of high-stakes game
  23-Mar-09
• EU Parliament blasts GMA for rights abuses, govt denials
  22-Mar-09
• Glencore Seeks to Extend $9 Billion Revolving Credit Facilities
  20-Mar-09
• Miners running scare campaign over job losses
  19-Mar-09
• Xstrata angry over release of sensitive data
  19-Mar-09
• How will you spend your $900?
  19-Mar-09
• Emission trading scheme stalls
  19-Mar-09
• Green energy firm pledges 1200 jobs
  19-Mar-09
• Xstrata says if Labors trading scheme was implemented in its current form, it will close four mines in NSW and scrap plans to invest $7 billion in new coalmining operations in NSW and Queensland that would create 4000 jobs.
  19-Mar-09
• Mining company Xstrata has threatened to axe 1000 coalmining jobs
  19-Mar-09
• Two-faced Xstrata, sole appellant opposes rivals mining project
  19-Mar-09
• Russians warn of repeat of history in Afghanistan
  17-Mar-09
• Afghan war a mistake
  17-Mar-09
• China has proposes importers of Chinese-made goods be responsible for the carbon dioxide of manufacture.
  17-Mar-09
• Carbon plan will kill jobs, SCAREMONGERING XSTRATA says
  17-Mar-09
• Bishop demands probe into anti-mining activist killing
  15-Mar-09
• NPA vows justice for slain anti-mining activist: Xstrata implicated
  15-Mar-09
• National Security, the Financial Crisis, Bernie Madoff - No Marc Rich option?
  15-Mar-09
• Of coal and communities
  14-Mar-09
• 300mt more coal
  14-Mar-09
• Hunter coal contracts down to $70 per tonne.
  14-Mar-09
• Asia Coal-Prices drop to 21-mth low, hover just above $61
  14-Mar-09
• another massive mining debt emerges
  14-Mar-09
• Zambia to take control of Glencore closed mines.
  14-Mar-09
• Glencore probed for kickback allegations
  14-Mar-09
• I wont budge: landowner says no to mine
  09-Mar-09
• Mt Isa lead levels fault of mining
  07-Mar-09
• Downer EDI to develop coal handling and preparation plant for Xstrata
  07-Mar-09
• Xstrata Deceit.
  04-Mar-09
• Xstrata investors divided over plan
  04-Mar-09
• Investors protest over Xstrata coal deal
  04-Mar-09
• Wen warns economic crisis spreading in China
  01-Mar-09
• Labors ETS trickery
  01-Mar-09
• Xstrata investors angry at Glencore move
  28-Feb-09
• Xstrata headed for bloody nose?
  28-Feb-09
• Only 6-12 months until Full-Fledged Facsist Martial Law
  25-Feb-09
• Economist Warns Switzerland Could Go Broke
  25-Feb-09
• 25% increase in power bills this year in WA
  25-Feb-09
• New solar cells - mass production with nuclear potential
  24-Feb-09
• Aussies in dark on emissions effort: KRuDDs strategy of deception
  24-Feb-09
• Rudd under Xstratas thumb: Greens
  23-Feb-09
• The fires of climate change
  23-Feb-09
• Reopened McArthur River Mine sparks calls for tougher laws
  23-Feb-09
• Debt higher than Xstratas current market value
  22-Feb-09
• Coal mining boom sinks
  22-Feb-09
• Reducing carbon footprint waste of time
  22-Feb-09
• Xstratas Glencore rights issue angers big investors
  21-Feb-09
• ABI Issues Amber Top For Xstrata Rights Issue Vote
  21-Feb-09
• Support for those under threat of mines
  20-Feb-09
• Xstrata Halts Ravensworth Coal Mine After Worker Dies
  19-Feb-09
• Australia backs carbon trade plan, abandons inquiry
  19-Feb-09
• Mine Mill protest
  19-Feb-09
• Truck driver crushed to death at Hunter Valley mine
  18-Feb-09
• 20 million jobs lost in Guangdong province alone
  18-Feb-09
• Xstrata Dreaming: The Struggle of Aboriginal Australians against a Swiss Mining Giant
  18-Feb-09
• Canadian Government trades people for promised dollars (as they all do)
  12-Feb-09
• Xstrata breaks contract with Canadian Government
  12-Feb-09
• The slide and slide of Peter Garrett
  09-Feb-09
• COAL & Allied Puts Mt Pleasant Mine ON HOLD
  07-Feb-09
• Thermal Coal contracts fall to $70 USD .... approaching cost of production
  07-Feb-09
• Wybong Ablaze
  07-Feb-09
• Major Xstrata shareholder Glencore rated JUNK STATUS,, Xstrata next
  04-Feb-09
• "Miners Estate Pops Up Again in Sewerage Works
  03-Feb-09
• Widespread Violent Military Crackdown Looms in China as Economy Fails.
  03-Feb-09
• Naked Capitalism - Unrest in China worse than State news reports
  03-Feb-09
• Chinese losing jobs three times faster than reported
  03-Feb-09
• Xstrata Share Price Falls Even further - How low can you get ?
  03-Feb-09
• Coal Pollution linked to soaring birth defects among Chinese infants
  01-Feb-09
• What Cooked the Worlds Economy?
  01-Feb-09
• Rio Tinto coking coal discount bad for contract talks
  01-Feb-09
• Stocks tumble on rights issues news
  30-Jan-09
• Investor fury over Xstrata cash call
  30-Jan-09
• Xstrata operates at new depths with rights issue
  30-Jan-09
• Xstrata faces rights issue revolt over Glencore deal
  30-Jan-09
• Criminal Xstrata Attempts to Deceive Investors
  30-Jan-09
• Xstratas woes a sign of the times
  30-Jan-09
• Xstrata to break bank covenants income shortfall on $US17 billion debts.
  30-Jan-09
• Xstrata launches $9b cash call
  30-Jan-09
• Coal & Allied expects grim 2009
  30-Jan-09
• Xstrata falls further on rights fears
  29-Jan-09
• Xstrata prepares multi-billion $USD cash call
  29-Jan-09
• Xstrata hit by downgrade from Citigroup
  28-Jan-09
• Xstrata price hit by fears of stake sale by Glencore
  28-Jan-09
• UPDATE: NEXT WAG MEETING:
  26-Jan-09
• Chinese soothsayers predict bumpy 2009
  25-Jan-09
• Traditional owners misled over mine BY GARRET
  25-Jan-09
• Jobs to go at McArthur River despite approval
  24-Jan-09
• ING cuts Xstrata rating - high exposure to debt
  24-Jan-09
• Mine expansion gets green light after job loss threats
  23-Jan-09
• US RESEARCH CONFIRMS BOTH THE ARCTIC & ANTARCTICA ARE MELTING
  23-Jan-09
• Evidence that Eric Holder twiced perjured himself before Senate Judiciary Committee
  23-Jan-09
• Coal industry at risk with no cash support under carbon reduction scheme
  21-Jan-09
• A Rich Vein for Holder Questions
  21-Jan-09
• Xstrata Pushes Australia Govt On McArthur Mine Expansion
  21-Jan-09
• The future of the McArthur River Mine hangs in the balance
  16-Jan-09
• Following the redemption of the Preferred Shares, Xstrata Canada will no longer have any publicly traded shares.
  16-Jan-09
• Specter Grills Holder Over Marc Rich Pardon Scandal
  16-Jan-09
• Asia Coal-Prices ease below $80 on sluggish demand
  16-Jan-09
• Xstrata In Talks With Australia Govt To Reopen McArthur Mine
  16-Jan-09
• Food deficit tipped for tropics
  13-Jan-09
• Asset-rich, debt-laden Rio Tinto adrift in a buyers market - Xstrata so loaded with debt only Glencore can bail it out on a C & A bid
  13-Jan-09
• Coal & Allied to be shafted to the highest bidder?
  13-Jan-09
• Only Purpose for Mothballed Mangoola Early Works is to Destroy Ecological and Biodiversity Assets from future scrutiny
  12-Jan-09
• Sydney Gas, AGL merger on the cards
  23-Dec-08
• Estimated Carbon Footprint of Sydney Gas and AGL in the Hunter
  14-Dec-08
• Valleys $10bn methane gas find
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