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 ...

Authorities are trying to establish what caused a fire that destroyed a historic railway structure and blocked rail services between Sydney and Brisbane. A historic coal loader has been destroyed by ...

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 ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Bhagwat Saw, 69, in hospital after he was diagnosed with pneumoconiosis. He has been working as a coal loader for ...

SINGAPORE, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Singapore-listed coal miner, Straits Asia Resources , said on Thursday the new coal loading facility at its Jembayan mine in Indonesia's East Kalimantan province has ...