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Australia’s largest coal-fired power plant to close

February 17, 2022

by Andrew BEATTY Agence France-Presse SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) – Australia’s largest coal-fired power plant will shut in 2025 — several years sooner than planned — operators announced Thursday, saying the facility is no longer viable given the low cost of renewables. Origin Energy told investors the “influx of renewables” was “undermining the economics” of the vast decades-old Eraring plant just north of Sydney. Australia is one of the world’s largest coal producers and the climate […]

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Protesters occupy disputed German coal mine

February 3, 2020

FRANKFURT AM MAIN, Germany (AFP) — Activists occupied Germany’s newest power plant on Sunday to protest against a law passed last week to end coal electricity generation, but which environmental groups argue is insufficient. Police said more than 100 protesters entered the site of the Datteln 4 coal-fired power plant in western Germany. The organizers, a protest group called Ende Gelaende (Game Over), put the number at 150. The group said in a statement that their […]

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