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Australian Coking Coal Miner Gets Private Loan From RRJ Capital
Australian coking coal miner Tahmoor Coal Pty has secured a $140 million private-credit loan from RRJ Capital to restart its operations. The five-year senior secured facility has been signed but not yet funded, according to people familiar with the…
Hormuz Crisis to Push Global Coal Demand to Record High
The International Energy Agency expects coal demand to increase this year in response to ongoing oil and gas trade constraints stemming from the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Several countries have been forced to turn back to coal to fill the…
Solar Power Is Getting So Cheap That It's Almost Unbelievable
Though the price to install new solar panels has been trending downward for a while, it's officially reached a new milestone: “offensively cheap.” Provocative new reporting by the Financial Times highlighted the new paradigm around…
'Do you have to be dead?': US coalminers plead for benefits as black-lung disease cases surge
For 38 years, Josh Armes worked as a coal miner in West Virginia and Virginia. After retirement, Armes, 74, of Grundy, Virginia, was diagnosed with black lung disease, medically known as coal workers' pneumoconiosis (CWP), caused by breathing in…
LNG/Coal Recap
Recapping my recent thermal coal and LNG pieces and where they stand now. One F#ck-Up After Another (Optimising for efficiency over resiliency, until something breaks...) Advancing One Crisis at a Time (Positioning for the coming LNG bidding war.)…
Concerns raised over Qld's call-in process for assessing renewable projects
Renewable energy advocates are calling for a better framework for development processes to ensure investors are not scared off. The Queensland government is using extraordinary powers to call in energy projects, leaving both communities and…
Trade, industry hail Mangaluru rail rejig
Stakeholders are hopeful that the Railway Board's decision to merge the Mangaluru railway region with the Mysuru division of South Western Railway (SWR), effective October 1, will boost the prospects of trade and industry in coastal Karnataka. At…
Labor picks a path through farmland to bring offshore wind to Victoria
The Carroll government has revealed its preferred route for a 60-kilometre transmission line through Victorian farmland to connect offshore wind projects to the electricity grid, pushing ahead with the plan less than a week after pausing a separate…
US environment agency let Bayer pick regulations for destructive weedkiller, documents show
The EPA allowed pesticide giant Bayer to pick from a menu of regulation options for the controversial and destructive weedkiller dicamba, newly released internal agency documents show. The documents provide an unusually clear look into the process…
Trump and AI
The story that James noted this morning about the AI Force and whatnot made me think of an anecdote from the book Regime Change that Jonathan Swann recounted on The Bulwark Daily podcast recently. From the raw transcript (ums and mis-transcribed…
How This Beloved London Designer Reimagined One of the City's Heritage Brands
For his first Mulberry show this afternoon in London, Christopher Kane looked to the tree at the heart of the brand. His idea was simple: sometimes you have to cut back to grow again. An axe, naturally, followed. “It's this person who looks…
Equities Analysts Offer Predictions for Evergy Q1 Earnings
Unassuming Evergy Energy: The AI Boost Your Income Portfolio Needs Evergy Inc. (NASDAQ:EVRG - Free Report) - Investment analysts at Zacks Research raised their Q1 2027 earnings per share estimates for shares of Evergy in a report issued on Friday…
'Extraordinary' Normandy veteran Ken Hay dies aged 101
Normandy veteran Ken Hay, who survived capture just weeks after D-Day and spent years educating children about the war, has died aged 101. The British Normandy Memorial, for which he was an ambassador, announced his death on Sunday, saying he 'gave…
Oxford Report Puts Fashion's Farmland 'Influence' at 30 Percent
Fashion's fiber sourcing may give the industry influence over almost one-third of the world's agricultural land. However, this does not mean fashion occupies—or is solely responsible for—one-third of it. The distinction sits at the…
5 Books Under 200 Pages That Are Perfect From Beginning to End
Sometimes a novella-length book can be even more impactful than a 600-page marathon read. The official line between a short novel and a novella is a bit hazy, but both forms make the most of 200 pages or less. The sweet spot for your typical adult…
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