Most European countries are relying heavily on coal imports to fuel their power stations. The coal travels long distances to be burnt in Europe, generating profits for European companies and cheap electricity for European consumers. As European coal industries have been on the decline – partly for economic reasons, partly due to phase-outs for ‘green transitions’ – import coal has become increasingly important to fuel European coal power stations and the steel industry. Official numbers from...

No other country exports more coal to central Europe than Russia. Russia has only recently turned into a hard coal exporter. But the pace at which it has done so is frightening. Within ten years, the country has become the third largest exporter worldwide and currently comes sixth in coal production. The big European importers rely heavily on Russian coal. For example, 40 percent of the coal burned in Germany is mined in Russia. However, very little is known about the Russian part of the...

European coal also comes from the USA, where coal is mined in the Appalachian Mountains, in the West, and the Mid-West of the country. One particularly destructive form of coal mining practised in the USA is Mountaintop removal (MTR). MTR involves the blasting away – with explosives – of whole mountain summits. Up to 120 metres of the mountain are removed to expose underlying coal seams. Afterwards, digging machines remove the overburden and dump it in nearby valleys. MTR is mainly used in the...

"I wish that people became more aware of where their coal comes from. And about the consequences”, says Luz Angela Uriana Epiayu, mother of Moisés Daniel, a young child who is seriously ill with lung disease. Statements of this kind are often heard if you talk to the people in Colombia’s mining areas. But there lies the problem: nobody asks. And the supply chain for Colombian hard coal follows only one logic: that of profit. It is a prime example of modern neo-colonialism, in which the centres...

The Wangan and Jagalingou people are the First Nation of the Country in the Galilee Basin in Central Queensland where the Adani company is currently planning a new coal mine, the Carmichael coal mine. The mine is the most controversial mining project in Australia, proposed by the Indian multinational Adani. Some consider it to become the most environmentally and socially contentious project in Australia’s history. Murrawah Johnson, a spokesperson of the Wangan & Jagalingou Family Council,...

With the hashtag #BiziKömürümüzBizimEnerjimiz (#ourcoalourenergy), the Turkish state has massively pushed (and subsidised) coal-powered electricity generation.  Turkey is a net energy importer (importing three quarters of its energy), and its budget deficit and political tensions with Russia, on which it depends for gas, help explain the government’s ‘coal rush’ (Milli Enerji). A third of Turkey’s primary energy is generated by burning coal, and coal is responsible for a third of the country’s...

Most European countries are relying heavily on coal imports to fuel their power stations. The coal travels long distances to be burnt in Europe, generating profits for European companies and cheap electricity for European consumers. As European coal industries have been on the decline – partly for economic reasons, partly due to phase-outs for ‘green transitions’ – import coal has become increasingly important to fuel European coal power stations and the steel industry. Official numbers from...

No other country exports more coal to central Europe than Russia. Russia has only recently turned into a hard coal exporter. But the pace at which it has done so is frightening. Within ten years, the country has become the third largest exporter worldwide and currently comes sixth in coal production. The big European importers rely heavily on Russian coal. For example, 40 percent of the coal burned in Germany is mined in Russia. However, very little is known about the Russian part of the...

European coal also comes from the USA, where coal is mined in the Appalachian Mountains, in the West, and the Mid-West of the country. One particularly destructive form of coal mining practised in the USA is Mountaintop removal (MTR). MTR involves the blasting away – with explosives – of whole mountain summits. Up to 120 metres of the mountain are removed to expose underlying coal seams. Afterwards, digging machines remove the overburden and dump it in nearby valleys. MTR is mainly used in the...

"I wish that people became more aware of where their coal comes from. And about the consequences”, says Luz Angela Uriana Epiayu, mother of Moisés Daniel, a young child who is seriously ill with lung disease. Statements of this kind are often heard if you talk to the people in Colombia’s mining areas. But there lies the problem: nobody asks. And the supply chain for Colombian hard coal follows only one logic: that of profit. It is a prime example of modern neo-colonialism, in which the centres...

The Wangan and Jagalingou people are the First Nation of the Country in the Galilee Basin in Central Queensland where the Adani company is currently planning a new coal mine, the Carmichael coal mine. The mine is the most controversial mining project in Australia, proposed by the Indian multinational Adani. Some consider it to become the most environmentally and socially contentious project in Australia’s history. Murrawah Johnson, a spokesperson of the Wangan & Jagalingou Family Council,...

With the hashtag #BiziKömürümüzBizimEnerjimiz (#ourcoalourenergy), the Turkish state has massively pushed (and subsidised) coal-powered electricity generation.  Turkey is a net energy importer (importing three quarters of its energy), and its budget deficit and political tensions with Russia, on which it depends for gas, help explain the government’s ‘coal rush’ (Milli Enerji). A third of Turkey’s primary energy is generated by burning coal, and coal is responsible for a third of the country’s...

Most European countries are relying heavily on coal imports to fuel their power stations. The coal travels long distances to be burnt in Europe, generating profits for European companies and cheap electricity for European consumers. As European coal industries have been on the decline – partly for economic reasons, partly due to phase-outs for ‘green transitions’ – import coal has become increasingly important to fuel European coal power stations and the steel industry. Official numbers from...

No other country exports more coal to central Europe than Russia. Russia has only recently turned into a hard coal exporter. But the pace at which it has done so is frightening. Within ten years, the country has become the third largest exporter worldwide and currently comes sixth in coal production. The big European importers rely heavily on Russian coal. For example, 40 percent of the coal burned in Germany is mined in Russia. However, very little is known about the Russian part of the...

European coal also comes from the USA, where coal is mined in the Appalachian Mountains, in the West, and the Mid-West of the country. One particularly destructive form of coal mining practised in the USA is Mountaintop removal (MTR). MTR involves the blasting away – with explosives – of whole mountain summits. Up to 120 metres of the mountain are removed to expose underlying coal seams. Afterwards, digging machines remove the overburden and dump it in nearby valleys. MTR is mainly used in the...

"I wish that people became more aware of where their coal comes from. And about the consequences”, says Luz Angela Uriana Epiayu, mother of Moisés Daniel, a young child who is seriously ill with lung disease. Statements of this kind are often heard if you talk to the people in Colombia’s mining areas. But there lies the problem: nobody asks. And the supply chain for Colombian hard coal follows only one logic: that of profit. It is a prime example of modern neo-colonialism, in which the centres...

The Wangan and Jagalingou people are the First Nation of the Country in the Galilee Basin in Central Queensland where the Adani company is currently planning a new coal mine, the Carmichael coal mine. The mine is the most controversial mining project in Australia, proposed by the Indian multinational Adani. Some consider it to become the most environmentally and socially contentious project in Australia’s history. Murrawah Johnson, a spokesperson of the Wangan & Jagalingou Family Council,...

With the hashtag #BiziKömürümüzBizimEnerjimiz (#ourcoalourenergy), the Turkish state has massively pushed (and subsidised) coal-powered electricity generation.  Turkey is a net energy importer (importing three quarters of its energy), and its budget deficit and political tensions with Russia, on which it depends for gas, help explain the government’s ‘coal rush’ (Milli Enerji). A third of Turkey’s primary energy is generated by burning coal, and coal is responsible for a third of the country’s...

Most European countries are relying heavily on coal imports to fuel their power stations. The coal travels long distances to be burnt in Europe, generating profits for European companies and cheap electricity for European consumers. As European...

No other country exports more coal to central Europe than Russia. Russia has only recently turned into a hard coal exporter. But the pace at which it has done so is frightening. Within ten years, the country has become the third largest exporter...

European coal also comes from the USA, where coal is mined in the Appalachian Mountains, in the West, and the Mid-West of the country. One particularly destructive form of coal mining practised in the USA is Mountaintop removal (MTR). MTR involves...

"I wish that people became more aware of where their coal comes from. And about the consequences”, says Luz Angela Uriana Epiayu, mother of Moisés Daniel, a young child who is seriously ill with lung disease. Statements of this kind are often heard...

The Wangan and Jagalingou people are the First Nation of the Country in the Galilee Basin in Central Queensland where the Adani company is currently planning a new coal mine, the Carmichael coal mine. The mine is the most controversial mining...

With the hashtag #BiziKömürümüzBizimEnerjimiz (#ourcoalourenergy), the Turkish state has massively pushed (and subsidised) coal-powered electricity generation.  Turkey is a net energy importer (importing three quarters of its energy), and its...

Most European countries are relying heavily on coal imports to fuel their power stations. The coal travels long distances to be burnt in Europe, generating profits for European companies and cheap electricity for European consumers. As European...

No other country exports more coal to central Europe than Russia. Russia has only recently turned into a hard coal exporter. But the pace at which it has done so is frightening. Within ten years, the country has become the third largest exporter...

European coal also comes from the USA, where coal is mined in the Appalachian Mountains, in the West, and the Mid-West of the country. One particularly destructive form of coal mining practised in the USA is Mountaintop removal (MTR). MTR involves...

"I wish that people became more aware of where their coal comes from. And about the consequences”, says Luz Angela Uriana Epiayu, mother of Moisés Daniel, a young child who is seriously ill with lung disease. Statements of this kind are often heard...

The Wangan and Jagalingou people are the First Nation of the Country in the Galilee Basin in Central Queensland where the Adani company is currently planning a new coal mine, the Carmichael coal mine. The mine is the most controversial mining...

With the hashtag #BiziKömürümüzBizimEnerjimiz (#ourcoalourenergy), the Turkish state has massively pushed (and subsidised) coal-powered electricity generation.  Turkey is a net energy importer (importing three quarters of its energy), and its...

Most European countries are relying heavily on coal imports to fuel their power stations. The coal travels long distances to be burnt in Europe, generating profits for European companies and cheap electricity for European consumers. As European coal industries have been on the decline – partly for economic reasons, partly due to phase-outs for ‘green transitions’ – import coal has become increasingly important to fuel European coal power stations and the steel industry. Official numbers from...

No other country exports more coal to central Europe than Russia. Russia has only recently turned into a hard coal exporter. But the pace at which it has done so is frightening. Within ten years, the country has become the third largest exporter worldwide and currently comes sixth in coal production. The big European importers rely heavily on Russian coal. For example, 40 percent of the coal burned in Germany is mined in Russia. However, very little is known about the Russian part of the...

European coal also comes from the USA, where coal is mined in the Appalachian Mountains, in the West, and the Mid-West of the country. One particularly destructive form of coal mining practised in the USA is Mountaintop removal (MTR). MTR involves the blasting away – with explosives – of whole mountain summits. Up to 120 metres of the mountain are removed to expose underlying coal seams. Afterwards, digging machines remove the overburden and dump it in nearby valleys. MTR is mainly used in the...

"I wish that people became more aware of where their coal comes from. And about the consequences”, says Luz Angela Uriana Epiayu, mother of Moisés Daniel, a young child who is seriously ill with lung disease. Statements of this kind are often heard if you talk to the people in Colombia’s mining areas. But there lies the problem: nobody asks. And the supply chain for Colombian hard coal follows only one logic: that of profit. It is a prime example of modern neo-colonialism, in which the centres...

The Wangan and Jagalingou people are the First Nation of the Country in the Galilee Basin in Central Queensland where the Adani company is currently planning a new coal mine, the Carmichael coal mine. The mine is the most controversial mining project in Australia, proposed by the Indian multinational Adani. Some consider it to become the most environmentally and socially contentious project in Australia’s history. Murrawah Johnson, a spokesperson of the Wangan & Jagalingou Family Council,...

With the hashtag #BiziKömürümüzBizimEnerjimiz (#ourcoalourenergy), the Turkish state has massively pushed (and subsidised) coal-powered electricity generation.  Turkey is a net energy importer (importing three quarters of its energy), and its budget deficit and political tensions with Russia, on which it depends for gas, help explain the government’s ‘coal rush’ (Milli Enerji). A third of Turkey’s primary energy is generated by burning coal, and coal is responsible for a third of the country’s...