The New South Wales government's nominally independent Planning Assessment Commission (PAC) has approved a fourth coal loader for the port of Newcastle. Port Waratah Coal Services (PWCS) initially ...

PREMIER Peter Beattie signalled that coal would retain its importance as an export earner for the state when he commissioned the new $200 million RG Tanna Coal Terminal ship loader yesterday. Mr ...

The billion dollar second stage of Newcastle's third coal loader has opened, increasing annual exports by an extra 23 million tonnes.(Supplied NCIG) The billion dollar second stage of Newcastle's ...

More than a dozen people have been arrested in an early-morning climate protest as a final swansong for one of the year's biggest activist events. Having boarded coal ships in previous days, ...

Uncertainty over the mining tax is not slowing growth in the world's biggest coal port, with the New South Wales Government approving a $500 million fourth coal loader in Newcastle. Port Waratah Coal ...

About 100 Port Kembla Coal Terminal (PKCT) employees are maintaining industrial action following a breakdown in talks on Friday at a Fair Work Australia hearing over a new enterprise agreement. The ...

A group of 30 people held up construction of a second loader arm at Newcastle's third coal loader site on Kooragang Island on May 10, stopping a crane crew for about 90 minutes. The protest coincided ...

More than 200 coal loading workers at terminals in Newcastle, 160 kilometres north of Sydney, are continuing to impose rolling strikes and work bans in opposition to demands they accept greater ...

Coal is getting killed in the U.S. That’s largely because its main customer, the electricity industry, is switching to fuels or sources that are either cheaper or cleaner (or both), like natural gas ...

Mining equipment supplier ELB Equipment recently added a larger- capacity bucket on the 90Z6 wheel loader to increase its offering to coal mining. The bucket is as reliable, but more productive, than ...