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International Energy Agency sees ‘peak coal’ as demand for fossil fuel crumbles in China
Posted by Telegraph: Ambrose Evans-Pritchard on December 18th, 2015
Telegraph: China’s coal consumption has been falling for two years and may never recover as the moment of "peak coal" draws closer, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has said.
The energy watchdog has slashed its 2020 forecast for global coal demand by 500m tonnes, warning that the industry risks unstoppable decline as renewable technologies and tougher climate laws shatter previous assumptions.
In poignant symbolism, the peak coal report came as miners worked their final shift at Britain’s last surviving...
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Poland’s shale drive will transform Europe, if it does not drop the ball
Posted by Telegraph: Ambrose Evans-Pritchard on August 22nd, 2013
Telegraph: Another branch of the same US government - the US Geological Survey - says there is "essentially nothing" in the Silurian shale corridor from Gdansk to western Ukraine, the great treasure that was supposed to free Eastern Europe from the stranglehold of Russian gas.
If America's experts cannot agree, it is no surprise that Poland has become the wishful-thinking battleground of Continental Europe's fracking wars, each side able to cherry-pick authority and make any hyperbolic claim it likes.
"We...