[fellellor]

India imports a huge amount of coal from Australia because of local restrictions on mining, by the way. Otherwise we have one of the largest coal reserves on the planet.

Digging up coal to fight climate change is just silly, and I doubt that flies anywherre.

[L_226]

> Digging up coal to fight climate change is just silly, and I doubt that flies anywhere.

Well, it's trying really hard [0] to fly here in Australia.

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCsUYltcJZU

[tankenmate]

The normal industry name for lower quality coal is "brown coal" (the most common type is lignite, which actually has a brown colour), and higher quality coal is "black coal". For coal used for steel making / coking has to be purer so low sulphur black coal is the only option.

[fellellor]

This may be true to some extent, but a significant amount of noise was generated because of the previous government refusing to issue mining clearances for coal. I think a number of private companies had laid out infrastructure to use brown coal after the energy reforms by the Vajpayee government.

[digital_ins]

This is incorrect. Local, domestic coal has significantly worse project economics, which is why local plants prefer the imported variety.