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Council pauses company's $2.2m unpaid bill as receivers move in
Creditors for mining company Vitrinite will meet for the first time this week after it was put into administration late last month. Isaac Regional Council has paused pursuing $2.2 million in coal haulage fees from Vitrinite, which owns the Vulcan…
Trump Interior Department may ease up on solar industry
It is also getting an unexpected boost from some influencers in the orbit of the White House. Earlier this week, E&E News reported that the DOI is reviewing 20 commercial-scale solar projects that have been stalled in the permitting process. The…
Power Hungry: How The AI Boom Is Forcing A Clean Energy Reckoning
COLUMBUS, OHIO - JULY 24: The COL4 AI-ready data center is located on a seven-acre campus at the convergence point of long-haul fiber and regional carrier fiber networks on July 24, 2025 in Columbus, Ohio. COL4 spans 256,000 square feet with 50 MW…
West Cumbrian museum building bought by miner's son to reopen
Hannah MitchellNorth East and Cumbria A historic museum on the site of a former coalmine is set to reopen later this year after being bought by a miner's son. Haig Colliery Mining Museum in Kells, Whitehaven, closed in 2016 amid financial…
Pakistan's solar saga
Pakistan's power sector is living through a paradox. On the one hand, rooftop solar has become the most organic energy reform the country has ever witnessed, financed by households, powered by falling global module prices, and accelerated by…
California is a dependent state, not a powerhouse
And yet, California is badly mismanaged. California is one of seven states that share water from the Colorado River, receiving one-third of its overall water from the river. These states have failed to come to a renewed agreement on how to divvy up…
US pressure on China grows with Iran attack
The strikes on Iran on Saturday are part of a bigger play by the United States that reaches beyond the Middle East to put pressure on China, a country it sees as its main global adversary, analysts told Newsweek. The U.S. strikes, alongside its…
BJP begins campaign for Bengal Assembly elections with Parivartan Yatras
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leadership on Sunday (March 1, 2026) began its campaign for West Bengal Assembly elections with four Parivartan Yatras (March for change) starting from four corners of the State. BJP national president Nitin Nabin…
Thought St Patrick was Irish? WRONG he was Welsh
These Isles by Brian Groom (HarperNorth £20, 288pp) The Scots originally came over from Ireland, displacing the native Picts, The Picts themselves spoke a language closest to Cornish and Welsh. In the 17th century some Scots went back to…
The red state opportunity on data centers
Trump mentioned this in his State of the Union speech on Tuesday: “Many Americans are also concerned that energy demand from AI data centers could unfairly drive up their electric utility bills. We're telling the major tech companies that…
Investors spill what they aren't looking for anymore in AI SaaS companies
Investors have been pouring billions into AI companies over the past few years, as the technology continues to hold sway in the Valley and thus the world. But not all AI companies are grabbing investor attention. Indeed, even as it seems every…
Southern authors' new collections pack a punch
Her novels and short stories span the ages from 12th-century England (“The Matrix”) to 17th-century Jamestown (“The Vaster Wilds”) to present day (“Florida”), but they all share a focus on scrappy women and…
Seven feet tall coalminer to commemorate Bristol's worst pit disaster
A seven foot tall metal silhouette of a coal miner is to be installed on a main road in South Bristol, to commemorate ten local men who were killed in one of Bristol's worst pit disasters. The installation and unveiling will be the culmination of a…
How energy regimes have reshaped global power
Across modern history, great power competition has repeatedly centered on the mastery of the dominant energy and energy transition of the age. The United Kingdom's industrial hegemony in the 19th century was inseparable from its invention of the…
Debt loops and baby bonds
Pakistan runs two loops simultaneously, and both are making us poorer. The first is the household loop where inflation spikes, cash transfers top up, households consume through the shock, and the cycle repeats. The second is the sovereign loop…
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