BRUSSELS, Nov. 17, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- The premier global coal industry association marks its 25th anniversary with a new Chairman and welcomes China's largest coal company as a new Member. Fredrick D.

By HARTEVELT, John Green Party co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons yesterday nailed her party's colours alongside activist group Save Happy Valley at a picket outside Solid Energy in Christchurch. Fitzsimons was in Christchurch to unveil her party's policy on coal.

By STEEMAN, Marta STATE coal miner Solid Energy is planning a study into a an $8 billion project turning Southland lignite into liquid fuels.

By STEEMAN, Marta State coal miner Solid Energy is planning to launch a study into a $US6 billion ($NZ8b) project turning Southland lignites into liquid fuels next year with an international partner.

Solid Energy's CEO, Don Elder, seems unable to accept that there are enormous environmental costs to operating an open-cast coal mine, or that there is a direct relationship between the type of any business activity and the scale of those costs (May 18).