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89 relations: Abbot Point, ABC News (Australia), Alcoa World Alumina and Chemicals, Anglesea Power Station, Anglesea, Victoria, Anthracite, Biloela, Bituminous coal, Blackwater coal mine, Blair Athol coal mine, Bluff, Queensland, Briquette, Bulga Coal, Burton coal mine, Carbon capture and storage in Australia, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, Carbon pricing in Australia, Carbon sequestration, Clean Energy Act 2011, Clean Energy Regulator, Clermont, Queensland, Climate change, Coal, Coal mining, Coal pollution mitigation, Collie, Western Australia, Collinsville coal mine, Contribution to global warming by Australia, Coppabella coal mine, Curragh coal mine, Dysart, Queensland, Effects of global warming on Australia, Electricity generation, Emissions trading, Energy Brix Power Station, Energy in Australia, EnergyAustralia, Engie Energy International, Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, Environmental movement, Fossil fuel, Fossil fuel phase-out, Frank Sartor, Garnaut Climate Change Review, Gladstone, Queensland, Global warming, Goonyella Riverside Mine, Greenhouse gas, Greenhouse Mafia, Griffin Coal, ..., Hail Creek coal mine, Hay Point, Queensland, Hazelwood Power Station, Hunter Region, Jellinbah coal mine, Lanco Infratech, Land and Environment Court of New South Wales, Latrobe Valley, Lignite, Longwall mining, Loy Yang Power Station, Middlemount, Queensland, Mining in Australia, Mitigation of global warming in Australia, Moranbah, Moranbah North coal mine, Morwell, Victoria, Muswellbrook, New South Wales, Nebo, Queensland, New South Wales, Newcastle Port Corporation, Newlands coal mine, Norwich Park coal mine, Open-pit mining, Peak Downs Mine, Port Kembla, New South Wales, Port of Brisbane, Power station, Queensland, Rio Tinto Group, Rudd Government (2013), Saraji coal mine, South Australia, Tonne, Traralgon, Victoria (Australia), Wesfarmers, Yallourn, Yallourn Power Station. Expand index (39 more) »
Abbot Point
Abbot Point is the most northerly deepwater coal port of Australia, situated 25 kilometres north of Bowen, Queensland.
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ABC News (Australia)
ABC News is a national news service in Australia produced by the News and Current Affairs division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
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Alcoa World Alumina and Chemicals
Alcoa World Alumina and Chemicals is a joint venture between Alumina Limited (40% share) and Alcoa (60% share) and is abbreviated to AWAC.
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Anglesea Power Station
The Anglesea Power Station was a brown coalpowered thermal power station located at Anglesea, in Victoria, Australia.
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Anglesea, Victoria
Anglesea is a town in Victoria, Australia.
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Anthracite
Anthracite, often referred to as hard coal, is a hard, compact variety of coal that has a submetallic luster.
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Biloela
Biloela is a rural town and locality in Shire of Banana, Central Queensland, Australia.
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Bituminous coal
Bituminous coal or black coal is a relatively soft coal containing a tarlike substance called bitumen or asphalt.
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Blackwater coal mine
The Blackwater coal mine is a coal mine located in the Bowen Basin in Central Queensland, south of the town of Blackwater in the suburb of Stewarton.
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Blair Athol coal mine
The Blair Athol Coal Mine is a coal mine located in the Bowen Basin of Central Queensland, Australia.
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Bluff, Queensland
Bluff is both a town and a locality in the Central Highlands Region, in Central Queensland, Australia.
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Briquette
A briquette (or briquet) is a compressed block of coal dust or other combustible biomass material such as charcoal, sawdust, wood chips, peat, or paper used for fuel and kindling to start a fire.
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Bulga Coal
Bulga Coal Pty Limited is a coal-mining company based in Singleton, New South Wales, Australia.
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Burton coal mine
The Burton Coal Mine is a coal mine located in the north of Central Queensland.
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Carbon capture and storage in Australia
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is an approach to try to mitigate global warming by capturing carbon dioxide from large point sources such as fossil fuel power plants and storing it instead of releasing it into the atmosphere.
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Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (or CPRS) was a cap-and-trade emissions trading scheme for anthropogenic greenhouse gases proposed by the Rudd government, as part of its climate change policy, which had been due to commence in Australia in 2010.
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Carbon pricing in Australia
A carbon pricing scheme in Australia, commonly dubbed by its critics as a "carbon tax", was introduced by the Gillard Labor Government in 2011 as the Clean Energy Act 2011 which came into effect on 1 July 2012.
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Carbon sequestration
Carbon sequestration is the process involved in carbon capture and the long-term storage of atmospheric carbon dioxide or other forms of carbon to mitigate or defer global warming.
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Clean Energy Act 2011
The Clean Energy Act 2011 was an Act of the Australian Parliament, the main Act in a package of legislation that established an Australian emissions trading scheme (ETS), to be preceded by a three-year period of fixed carbon pricing in Australia designed to reduce carbon dioxide emissions as part of efforts to combat global warming.
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Clean Energy Regulator
The Clean Energy Regulator (CER) is an Australian independent statutory authority responsible for administering legislation to reduce carbon emissions and increase the use of clean energy.
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Clermont, Queensland
Clermont is an agricultural town and locality in the Isaac Region, Queensland, Australia.
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Climate change
Climate change is a change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns when that change lasts for an extended period of time (i.e., decades to millions of years).
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Coal
Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams.
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Coal mining
Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground.
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Coal pollution mitigation
Coal pollution mitigation, often referred to by the public relations term clean coal, is a series of systems and technologies that seek to mitigate the pollution and other environmental effects normally associated with the burning (though not the mining or processing) of coal, which is widely regarded as the dirtiest of the common fuels for industrial processes and power generation.
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Collie, Western Australia
Collie is a town in the South West region of Western Australia, south of the state capital, Perth, and inland from the regional city and port of Bunbury.
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Collinsville coal mine
The Collinsville Coal Mine is a coal mine located near Collinsville in Central Queensland, Australia.
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Contribution to global warming by Australia
Australia has one of the highest per capita emissions of carbon dioxide in the world, with 0.3% of the world's population it produces 1.8% of the world's greenhouse gasses.
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Coppabella coal mine
The Coppabella Coal Mine is an open-cut coal mine located in Strathfield, Isaac Region, Central Queensland, Australia.
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Curragh coal mine
The Curragh Coal Mine is an open-cut, coal mine located 30 km north of Blackwater in Central Queensland, Australia.
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Dysart, Queensland
Dysart is a town and a locality in the Isaac Region, Queensland, Australia.
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Effects of global warming on Australia
Predictions measuring the effects of global warming on Australia assert that global warming will negatively impact the continent's environment, economy, and communities.
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Electricity generation
Electricity generation is the process of generating electric power from sources of primary energy.
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Emissions trading
Emissions trading, or cap and trade, is a government, market-based approach to controlling pollution by providing economic incentives for achieving reductions in the emissions of pollutants.
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Energy Brix Power Station
The Energy Brix Power Station was a brown coalfired thermal power station located at Morwell, in Victoria, Australia.
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Energy in Australia
Energy in Australia is the production in Australia of energy and electricity, for consumption or export.
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EnergyAustralia
EnergyAustralia (former name: TRUenergy) is an electricity generation, electricity and gas retailing private company in Australia that is owned by Hong Kong-based and listed CLP Group.
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Engie Energy International
Engie Energy International, formerly International Power, is a multinational electricity generation company headquartered in London, United Kingdom and a wholly owned subsidiary of the French company Engie (formerly GDF Suez).
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Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) is an Act of the Parliament of Australia that provides a framework for protection of the Australian environment, including its biodiversity and its natural and culturally significant places.
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Environmental movement
The environmental movement (sometimes referred to as the ecology movement), also including conservation and green politics, is a diverse scientific, social, and political movement for addressing environmental issues.
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Fossil fuel
A fossil fuel is a fuel formed by natural processes, such as anaerobic decomposition of buried dead organisms, containing energy originating in ancient photosynthesis.
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Fossil fuel phase-out
Fossil fuel phase out refers to the discontinuation of the use of fossil fuels, through the decommissioning of operating fossil fuel-fired power plants, the prevention of the construction of new ones, and the use of alternative energy to replace the role of fossil fuels.
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Frank Sartor
Francesco Ernest "Frank" Sartor AO (born 9 November 1951) a former Australian politician, was New South Wales Minister for Climate Change and the Environment and Minister Assisting the Minister for Health (Cancer) between 2009 and 2011.
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Garnaut Climate Change Review
Professor Ross Garnaut led two climate change reviews, the first commencing in 2007 and the second in 2010.
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Gladstone, Queensland
Gladstone is a city in the Gladstone Region, Queensland, Australia.
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Global warming
Global warming, also referred to as climate change, is the observed century-scale rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system and its related effects.
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Goonyella Riverside Mine
Goonyella Riverside is a large open cut coking coal mine in the Bowen Basin.
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Greenhouse gas
A greenhouse gas is a gas in an atmosphere that absorbs and emits radiant energy within the thermal infrared range.
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Greenhouse Mafia
"Greenhouse Mafia" is the title of a TV program aired by the ABC on the 13 February 2006 episode of its weekly current affairs program Four Corners.
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Griffin Coal
Griffin Coal Mine is a large mine in the town of Collie in Western Australia, producing about 5 mn tons of coal p.a. In January 2011, the firm defaulted on debts of A$475 mn, and sought outside buyers.
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Hail Creek coal mine
The Hail Creek Coal Mine is a coal mine located within the Bowen Basin at Hail Creek in Central Queensland, Australia.
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Hay Point, Queensland
Hay Point is a locality in Mackay Region, Queensland, Australia.
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Hazelwood Power Station
The Hazelwood Power Station is a decommissioned brown coal-fuelled thermal power station located in the Latrobe Valley of Victoria, Australia.
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Hunter Region
The Hunter Region, also commonly known as the Hunter Valley, is a region of New South Wales, Australia, extending from approximately to north of Sydney.
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Jellinbah coal mine
The Jellinbah East Coal Mine is a coal mine located in the Bowen Basin at Jellinbah in Central Queensland, Australia.
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Lanco Infratech
Lanco Infratech (Lagadapati Amarappa Naidu and Company Infratech) is a large Indian business conglomerate involved in construction, power, real estate, and several other segments.
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Land and Environment Court of New South Wales
The Land and Environment Court of New South Wales is a court within the Australian court hierarchy established pursuant to the to hear environmental, development, building and planning disputes.
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Latrobe Valley
The Latrobe Valley is an inland geographical district and urban area of the Gippsland region in the state of Victoria, Australia.
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Lignite
Lignite, often referred to as brown coal, is a soft, brown, combustible, sedimentary rock formed from naturally compressed peat.
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Longwall mining
Longwall mining is a form of underground coal mining where a long wall of coal is mined in a single slice (typically 0.6 – 1.0 m thick).
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Loy Yang Power Station
The Loy Yang Power Station is a brown coal-fired thermal power station located on the outskirts of the city of Traralgon, in south-eastern Victoria, Australia.
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Middlemount, Queensland
Middlemount is a town and locality in Isaac Region, Central Queensland, Australia.
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Mining in Australia
Mining in Australia is a significant primary industry and contributor to the Australian economy.
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Mitigation of global warming in Australia
Mitigation of global warming involves taking actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to enhance sinks aimed at reducing the extent of global warming.
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Moranbah
Moranbah is a town and locality in the Isaac Region, Queensland, Australia, located on the Peak Downs Highway between Mackay and Clermont.
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Moranbah North coal mine
The Moranbah North Coal Mine is a coal mine in the Bowen Basin at Moranbah in Central Queensland, Australia.
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Morwell, Victoria
Morwell is a town in the Latrobe Valley area of Gippsland, in South-Eastern Victoria, Australia approximately 149 km (93 mi) east of Melbourne.
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Muswellbrook, New South Wales
Muswellbrook is a town in the Upper Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia, about north of Sydney and north-west of Newcastle.
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Nebo, Queensland
Nebo is a small town and locality in the Isaac Region, Queensland, Australia.
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New South Wales
New South Wales (abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of:Australia.
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Newcastle Port Corporation
Newcastle Port Corporation, a corporation owned by the Government of New South Wales, is responsible for the management, development and operation of seaport facilities within the Port of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
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Newlands coal mine
The Newlands Coal Mine is a coal mine located in the north of the Bowen Basin at Newlands about 28 km northwest of Glenden in North Queensland, Australia.
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Norwich Park coal mine
The Norwich Park Coal Mine was an open cut coal mine located south-east of Dysart, in Central Queensland, Australia.
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Open-pit mining
Open-pit, open-cast or open cut mining is a surface mining technique of extracting rock or minerals from the earth by their removal from an open pit or borrow.
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Peak Downs Mine
Peak Downs is a large open cut coking coal mine in Queensland located 31 km SSE of Moranbah.
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Port Kembla, New South Wales
Port Kembla is a suburb of Wollongong 8 km south of the CBD and part of the Illawarra region of New South Wales.
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Port of Brisbane
Port of Brisbane is the shipping port and suburb of Brisbane, on the east coast of Queensland, Australia.
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Power station
A power station, also referred to as a power plant or powerhouse and sometimes generating station or generating plant, is an industrial facility for the generation of electric power.
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Queensland
Queensland (abbreviated as Qld) is the second-largest and third-most populous state in the Commonwealth of Australia.
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Rio Tinto Group
Rio Tinto Group is an Australian-British multinational and one of the world's largest metals and mining corporations.
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Rudd Government (2013)
The Second Rudd Government was the federal executive Government of Australia led by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd of the Australian Labor Party.
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Saraji coal mine
The Saraji Coal Mine is a coal mine located near Dysart in the Central Queensland region of Australia.
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South Australia
South Australia (abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia.
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Tonne
The tonne (Non-SI unit, symbol: t), commonly referred to as the metric ton in the United States, is a non-SI metric unit of mass equal to 1,000 kilograms;.
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Traralgon
Traralgon is a city located in the east of the Latrobe Valley in the Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia.
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Victoria (Australia)
Victoria (abbreviated as Vic) is a state in south-eastern Australia.
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Wesfarmers
Wesfarmers Limited is an Australian conglomerate, headquartered in Perth, Western Australia, with interests predominantly in Australian and New Zealand retail, chemicals, fertilisers, coal mining and industrial and safety products.
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Yallourn
Yallourn, Victoria was a company town in Victoria, Australia built between the 1920s and 1950s to house employees of the State Electricity Commission of Victoria, who operated the nearby Yallourn Power Station complex.
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Yallourn Power Station
The Yallourn Power Station was a complex of six brown coalfuelled thermal power stations built progressively from the 1920s to the 1960s.
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References
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