UK’s new coal mine sent ‘adverse international signal’, campaigners say
Environmental campaigners are challenging the approval of a coking coal mine in northwest England.
Many states in India has increased load shedding or power cuts to avoid total blackout due to lower availability of coalĀ to generate electricity. To meet the growing gap between the reguirements and its domestic availabilty, the government has assigned the thermal power stations designed on indigenous coal to import 35 million tons of coal for 2011-12.