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![Christopher Niesche: Australia risks trade sanctions over climate change failings](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=792)
Christopher Niesche: Australia risks trade sanctions over climate change failings
The country is still going full steam ahead with coal mine development.
![Locked to train tracks: Activists rail against coal in Dunedin protest](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=792)
Locked to train tracks: Activists rail against coal in Dunedin protest
Protesters have stopped a coal train from running by locking themselves to the tracks.
![Glencore, Australia's largest coal producer, pledges to cap global output](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=792)
Glencore, Australia's largest coal producer, pledges to cap global output
Comment: We should not underestimate the significance of the announcement.
![Pike River families shocked by new evidence in photo](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=792)
Pike River families shocked by new evidence in photo
Photo of electrical cabinet that may have sparked explosion has been given to police.
![Govt talks 'sweetener' for miner](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=792)
Govt talks 'sweetener' for miner
Forest & Bird suspects the Government plans to open access to coal.
![Phoenix to pay $46m for West Coast coal mines](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=792)
Phoenix to pay $46m for West Coast coal mines
Phoenix Coal has agreed to pay $46 million cash for Solid Energy's Stockton, Rotowaro and Maramarua mines.
![Pike River 29: Lost but not forgotten](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=792)
Pike River 29: Lost but not forgotten
Five years ago today, 31 men hung their identification tags on a board and headed underground to work.
![Editorial: Govt must help Coast as coal sees curtain fall](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=792)
Editorial: Govt must help Coast as coal sees curtain fall
Two major factors - falling international coal prices and a $320 million mountain of debt - proved the undoing of state-owned coal company Solid Energy.
![Editorial: Solid Energy shows pitfalls of public ownership](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=792)
Editorial: Solid Energy shows pitfalls of public ownership
Editorial: The Green Party has called the Government's bail-out of Solid Energy "privatisation by stealth". Would that it were so.
![Pike River 'haunts me every day'](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=792)
Pike River 'haunts me every day'
The stoic spokesman for the families of the Pike River dead cannot stop grieving for the son he lost a year ago today.