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India imports a huge amount of coal from Australia because of local restrictions on mining, by the way. Otherwise we have one of the largest coal reserves on th
by fellellor 9y ago
India imports a huge amount of coal from Australia because of local restrictions on mining, by the way. Otherwise we have one of the largest coal reserves on the planet.
Digging up coal to fight climate change is just silly, and I doubt that flies anywherre.
- digital_ins 9y agoThis is incorrect. Local, domestic coal has significantly worse project economics, which is why local plants prefer the imported variety.
- tankenmate 9y agoThe normal industry name for lower quality coal is "brown coal" (the most common type is lignite, which actually has a brown colour), and higher quality coal is "black coal". For coal used for steel making / coking has to be purer so low sulphur black coal is the only option.
- fellellor 9y agoThis may be true to some extent, but a significant amount of noise was generated because of the previous government refusing to issue mining clearances for coal. I think a number of private companies had laid out infrastructure to use brown coal after the energy reforms by the Vajpayee government.
- L_226 9y ago> Digging up coal to fight climate change is just silly, and I doubt that flies anywhere. Well, it's trying really hard [0] to fly here in Australia. [0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCsUYltcJZU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCsUYltcJZU