Is it too late to stop Turkey's coal rush?
Turkey may soon have the world’s biggest coal fired plant one of 80 new plants planned as part of the country’s coal boom – but resistance is growing and many point to huge solar potential being overlooked In pictures The frontline of.
2016 Beyond Coal Outlook A Big Year AheadIf the first two weeks of 2016 are any indication, 2016 is shaping up to be a very big year for the US to make the shift beyond coal, to clean energy From Oregon to New York, and from Wall Street to Main Street, it feels like there has been big.Drax mulls shutting its coal fired stations amid competition from cheap gas and renewablesDrax’s power station in North Yorkshire is the largest coal fired plant in the UK and the second largest coal plant in Europe, but ceo Dorothy Thompson said it may be mothballedTurkish firm must scrap olive grove coal plant, says governmentTurkish government says Kolin Group must obey a court ruling against construction of a new power plant, that was already in place when the company felled 6,000 olive trees on the proposed site Continue reading.UNESCO urges halt to plan for Bangladesh coal plant in deltaDHAKA, Bangladesh The UN agency devoted to preserving world heritage has joined environmental groups urging Bangladesh to halt plans for a massive coal fired power plant near ecologically sensitive mangrove forests on the coast UNESCO says.Up to 250 workers at Grande Cache Coal mine face layoffs in western Alberta GRANDE CACHE, Alta Hundreds of employees at Grande Cache Coal in western Alberta face layoffsThe United Mine Workers of America says the company served notice to union members Monday that it will stop operating its strip mine and coal.Capital Power ditches agreement to buy output of Sundance C coal fired plantEDMONTON Capital Power Corp (TSX CPX) is terminating an agreement to buy electricity from the Sundance C coal fired power plant west of Edmonton in response to a change in provincial regulations that took effect this year'Major' coal find under the ForthAn energy firm plans to build the UK's first underground coal gasification plant after finding 335 million tonnes of coal under the Firth of ForthChina's largest coal power plant violating air pollution levels every weekWaigaoqiao plant in Shanghai releasing dangerous nitrogen oxides in excess of national emission standards, study finds Continue reading.Texas’ responsibility to control coal plant emissionsThe Big Brown coal plant photographed in Fairfield, Texas (GJ , [visit site to read more]The post Texas’ responsibility to control coal plant emissions appeared first on Letters to the EditorMARKET REPORT Shares in power station operator Drax electrified after news that EU has approved plans for a new UK coal plantThe plant at Lynemouth, Northern England is owned by Drax which is transforming itself into a predominantly biomass fuelled generator through burning sustainable biomass in place of coal