AUSTRALIA

The ill wind blowing through the once hot underground coal gasification industry

SOMETIMES it is important to look backwards in order to know the way forward, which is what <i>Slugcatcher</i> did last week when considering the fate of his least-loved source of fuel, gas produced from burning coal underground or UCG (underground coal gasification) for short.

Two events caused this backward-forward look which, in itself, is actually a rather nifty way of introducing one of the players rumoured to have once been interested in Australian UCG, the Russian oligarch,...

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