By The Age, Sat, 7 Nov 2009 01:43:00 GMT
We can no longer shy away from the moral questions posed by our use of coal reserves. EARLY next month, the Copenhagen climate summit will begin. Pre-summit negotiations have been taking place in Barcelona, and the word late last week was that a dealread more »
By The Age, Sat, 7 Nov 2009 01:37:00 GMT
THERE'S no mistaking Muswellbrook for anything but a working town. The New England Highway is the main street, wide and practical. The coal trains, 90 carriages long, rumble through day and night, and the dust, always the dust, blows in from the minesread more »
By The Age, Sat, 7 Nov 2009 01:26:00 GMT
The single biggest contributor to global warming is also one of Australia's biggest money earners. So can Australia wean itself off coal? And what would the implications be if it did? "COAL,'' says mining union chief Tony Maher, the hint of a smirk inread more »
By Times Live South Africa, Sat, 7 Nov 2009 01:25:00 GMT
Among demands listed on a memorandum handed over to company CEO Ben Magara, were salary adjustments and the immediate stop to the victimisation of workers based on compulsory HIV/Aids voluntary tests and counselling results, said spokesman Lefty Mashego.read more »