The Latest Breaking News from Coal

South Africa’s current electricity crisis has been described as “a perfect storm”. A number of factors have converged to reach this point: an ageing and inadequately maintained fleet of coal power stations, delays in upgrading the Koeberg nuclear power station and significant failures at the recently built Medupi and Kusile…

Sydney-based MPs Kylea Tink and Sophie Scamps meet locals fighting coal seam gas project and Hunter pipeline

BHP CEO Mike Henry talks about Mount Arthur and coal

Third major train derailment in the Midwest in less than a month

Decision allows Santos to open 116 new wells with an operational life of about 30 years in the Surat Basin

BHP's decision to sell two Queensland coal mines has riled unions and renewed calls from the resource industry for a review of the state's royalty rates.

Mining giant BHP announces its intention to sell two central Queensland mines, one of which has been operating for 50 years.

The federal government has given Santos approval to drill 116 new coal seam gas wells in Queensland's Surat Basin with an operational life of 30 years.

NEW DELHI: The government is invoking an emergency rule that will force some of the country’s biggest coal power plants to operate at full capacity, as the country prepares to meet surging electricity demand and avoid blackouts.