âSavage blowâ: Coal companies hit back over banksâ flight from fossil fuels
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By Anne Hyland
May 15, 2021
Large Australian banks, superannuation funds and insurance companies are adopting a view that coal, the dirtiest fossil fuel, should eventually be retired as an energy source.
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The politics around coal is treacherous. In the Upper Hunter of New South Wales, a state by-election that could further weaken the ability of Premier Gladys Berejiklian to govern, has become the latest battleground over the future of coal, and the risk to thousands of workers losing their way of life.