Anna Bligh's comments came as three quarters of the state's coal fields are unable to operate due to being flooded.
It is off-shoring its water footprint by investing in coal fields in Australia and food production in Africa.
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The former coal fields of the region are thought to have huge deposits.
On the other hand, there are large coal fields that are almost undeveloped.
Lalgy Transport now has 700 lorries and contracts to transport coal from the vast newly-developed coal fields in central Mozambique to port.
And coal prices have fallen, with a harsh impact coming close to home, hitting the companies that operate Scottish opencast coal fields.
Those jobs would replace, or add to, those in the coal fields.
Harness those "bugs" and put them to work producing natural gas in underutilized oil and coal fields, decided Luca Technologies Chief Executive Robert Pfeiffer.
Green aficionados are familiar with the statistic that the sun bathes the Earth in trillions of barrels of energy (in oil equivalent terms), and less familiar with the fact that total known hydrocarbon resources are also countable in the trillions of barrels (from the oil-sands and ultra-deep-water sub-salt fields, to methane hydrates and coal, not to mention shale gas).
Private equity backed 2Co wants to build a new coal plant above the Hatfield coal mine and pump the gas to North Sea oil fields where it can be used for enhanced oil recovery.
The scheme named the Captain Clean Energy Project, would see the creation of a new 570MW "low emission" coal power station with CO2 pumped into storage in offshore depleted gas fields.
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Considering the opportunities to treat gas that would otherwise be flared, to unlock otherwise uneconomic shale and conventional gas fields, and increasing opportunities for biomass, waste and coal conversion, small-scale GTL may well have a significant niche to fill in our emerging energy picture.
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The idea is to capture the carbon dioxide emissions from burning the coal for power, then piping the CO2 around to be injected into old oil fields to coax out more stubborn crude.
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