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...The new management of the coal spin-off may then be reluctant to whittle it down. Teck’s coking coal business, Elk Valley, will make the unit a more attractive investment....
...Price’s own company Teck has also been under fire from NGOs about the environmental impact of its mines including water pollution at the Elk Valley coal mines in Canada, which it agreed to sell to Glencore...
...Late in February Teck said it would split off met coal operations into a pure-play called Elk Valley Resources, leaving behind a business focused on copper and zinc....
...Before most people knew what a camera was, the V&A was already amassing photographs....
...Also tucked in are some minor changes to the federal permitting process, including policies that limit the environmental review process under the National Environmental Policy Act to two years....
...The company says it would also go against its environmental, social and corporate governance policies....
...That’s the target of Valuable 500’s “Gen V” mentoring scheme, which pairs a senior executive with a young disabled employee....
...“We don’t have time to get rid of coal and then spend the next 30 years getting rid of oil and gas,” said Mark Brownstein, senior vice-president of energy at Environmental Defense Fund....
...On an exposed ridge deep in Appalachia, 23 shining new wind turbines loom over a wooded valley — the newest additions to the energy mix in America’s traditional coal heartlands....
...I think this Bloomberg story about Gen X female executives leaving the corporate workplace in droves is a real canary in the coal mine piece....
...When his stock runs out, he can buy more wood illegally through a clandestine deal deep in the Ózd valley. “What else am I going to do?” asked Sipeki, who is employed in a public works programme....
...BHP sold its stake in a Colombian coal mine to Glencore — which also owns coal mines in the Hunter Valley — last year and has merged its oil assets with Woodside into a separately listed company....
...from the coal....
...They’re convinced management’s plan to spin off AGL’s coal generation business into a standalone company has hidden value for both resulting groups....
...Another strategic focus will be “the valley of death” in clean tech, namely the point when new green companies have good ideas but urgently need capital to conduct large-scale tests of their innovations....
...Ideological divisions over the future of coal run deep in Australian communities, politics and the media....
...Fu had left China at the age of 12 and gone on to pursue a career in Silicon Valley....
...Power points Coal prices have soared in China, leading to power shortages and fears of inflation. Raising livestock causes major environmental damage....
...Coal company payments to a handful of Republicans can be shrugged off, but can the coal sector entice Democrat Joe Manchin to its side?...
...Needing to run their machines 24/7, many site their operations in places with cheap coal-fired electricity, such as Iran, Xinjiang province in China and Kazakhstan....
...Even so, BHP has pressed ahead with its gradual retreat from fossil fuels, last month announcing a major divestment from coal assets in Australia.Companies across the resources sector are walking a similarly...
...Needing to run their machines 24/7, many site their operations in places with cheap coal-fired electricity....
...But activists fear that it is moving more aggressively ahead with destructive environmental policies to spur private investment, attract foreign companies and bring India out of the severe economic slump...
...We cannot drink oil, we cannot eat coal, we cannot adapt to extinction....
...“We are not going to solve climate change simply by companies buying clean electricity,” says Nat Keohane, senior vice-president at the Environmental Defense Fund in Washington....
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