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Activist group Clean Air Queensland said the Acland expansion would increase coal dust pollution in Brisbane.
"Any liquid coal deployment would increase coal mining beyond today's levels," he said.
Xstrata will increase coal sales by half and cut dependence on South African mines as a result of the deal.
WL Ross, based in New York, has stakes in two coal companies in West Virginia; a buyout of Horizon would help increase coal production by almost five times.
The largest contributors will be China's five north-western provinces, which aim to increase coal production by 620m tonnes by 2015, generating an additional 1.4bn tonnes of greenhouse gases a year.
Under the plans, ministers agreed to keep a permanent stockpile of at least six months' supply of coal, increase coal imports, build more oil-burn, nuclear and gas-fired power stations and encourage development of more opencast mines.
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This paradoxically led the UK to increase coal-fired electricity production to pay for the cost of generating highly subsidised renewables – instead of investing in cleaner gas-powered capacity.
They have recently broadened their appeal, arguing that the federal government should review the different proposals as a whole for their potential environmental impact, in part because they would drastically increase coal-car rail traffic through a range of pristine areas, including bird refuges and habitat for endangered salmon.
An area of major concern in considering increased coal production and utilization is the health and safety of increased numbers of workers who mine, process, or utilize coal.
There is a thirst for energy and that energy deficit is met by increased coal.
The embattled coal producer Massey Energy reported a bigger-than-expected loss for the third quarter on Tuesday despite increasing coal sales.
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