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abc.net.au - Bryn Wakefield - Council pauses company's $2.2m unpaid bill as receivers move in
Council pauses company's $2.2m unpaid bill as receivers move in
ABC News

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…

washingtonexaminer.com - Maydeen Merino - Trump Interior Department may ease up on solar industry
Trump Interior Department may ease up on solar industry
Washington Examiner

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…

forbes.com - Ken Silverstein - Power Hungry: How The AI Boom Is Forcing A Clean Energy Reckoning
Power Hungry: How The AI Boom Is Forcing A Clean Energy Reckoning
Forbes

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…

bbc.co.uk - Hannah Mitchell - West Cumbrian museum building bought by miner's son to reopen
West Cumbrian museum building bought by miner's son to reopen
BBC

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…

dawn.com - Khalid Waleed - Pakistan's solar saga
Pakistan's solar saga
Dawn

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…

washingtonexaminer.com - Zachary Faria - California is a dependent state, not a powerhouse
California is a dependent state, not a powerhouse
Washington Examiner

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…

newsweek.com - Didi Kirsten Tatlow - US pressure on China grows with Iran attack
US pressure on China grows with Iran attack
Newsweek

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…

thehindu.com - Shiv Sahay Singh - BJP begins campaign for Bengal Assembly elections with Parivartan Yatras
BJP begins campaign for Bengal Assembly elections with Parivartan Yatras
The Hindu

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…

dailymail.co.uk - Christopher Hart - Thought St Patrick was Irish? WRONG he was Welsh
Thought St Patrick was Irish? WRONG he was Welsh
Mail Online

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…

washingtonexaminer.com - The red state opportunity on data centers
The red state opportunity on data centers
Washington Examiner

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…

techcrunch.com - Dominic-Madori Davis - Investors spill what they aren't looking for anymore in AI SaaS companies
Investors spill what they aren't looking for anymore in AI SaaS companies
TechCrunch

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…

ajc.com - Suzanne Van Atten - Southern authors' new collections pack a punch
Southern authors' new collections pack a punch
ajc

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…

bristolpost.co.uk - Tristan Cork - Seven feet tall coalminer to commemorate Bristol's worst pit disaster
Seven feet tall coalminer to commemorate Bristol's worst pit disaster
Bristol Live

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…

dawn.com - Li Xing - How energy regimes have reshaped global power
How energy regimes have reshaped global power
Dawn

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…

dawn.com - Ammar H Khan - Debt loops and baby bonds
Debt loops and baby bonds
Dawn

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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