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Coal exports

Carbon tax just the first real battle in a very long war

Crikey / Wednesday, 13 July 2011

Fergus Green, of Inside Story, unpacks the carbon pricing package to discover, at its core, a tension between fundamentally different visions for the future of Australia’s economy and environment.

Bartholomeusz: BHP’s divine intervention on coal

Crikey / Stephen Bartholomeusz / Wednesday, 8 December 2010

Earlier this year BHP Billiton succeeded in its quest to convert the iron ore market from one based on annual benchmark price negotiations to one where the prices are set by reference to the market. Now it could do something similar to the pricing of coking coal.

Business As Usual: China holding off on its melting moments … Commodity prices and echoes of 2008 …

Crikey / Glenn Dyer / Thursday, 1 July 2010

While low prices and high power costs have put China’s aluminium industry on hold, the country is also freezing coal prices. Plus, refinancing Europe’s banks goes better than expected and other business news.

Has the Shen Neng been taken to Hervey Bay to sink?

Crikey / Bernard Keane / Monday, 17 May 2010

The adventures of the Shen Neng since it ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef shine a light on the clash between coal exports and the environment and the tourism industry in central Queensland.

We’ll all pay for BHP’s, Vale’s big iron ore price wins

Crikey / Glenn Dyer / Thursday, 1 April 2010

Prices for steel products could rise 20%-30% worldwide thanks to new contract deals stuck by BHP and Vale in Asia and Europe.

Why should green groups take the leap of faith for Rudd?

Crikey / Monday, 13 August 2007

Australia’s peak greens are in a hot spot. Labor’s climate policy is
vague and lacking urgency, short-term emissions and renewable energy targets. And it is committed to new coal mines and increasing coal exports. Anxious for a Labor victory, what does a good green do? writes David Spratt.