Australian Mogul Battled for Decades to Develop Troubled Mine
Clive Palmer, the Australian mogul locked in a fight with a Chinese company over the development of an iron-ore mine, struggled for years to hit pay dirt in the Outback. The 60-year-old bought mining rights in the remote northwestern Pilbara region in …
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Economics: Manufacture renewables to build energy security
China's rapid economic expansion since it joined the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001 has been based on fossil fuels: it consumes around 23% of the world's coal production for electricity. But fossil fuels alone cannot power the industrial growth …
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