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Costly Coal - Shareholder risk in Coal India

Last edited 3 December 2014 at 11:21am
Publication date: 
3 December, 2014

Investors will soon be offered further equity (an FPO of 10 per cent) in the Indian Government majority-owned Coal India Limited (CIL).

This FPO will likely position investing in Coal India as an “opportunity” for investors in a robust emerging market, on the basis of widely held assumptions regarding India’s continued reliance on thermal coal for power generation; and it having among the largest, lowest priced coal resources in the world.

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In pictures: Seeing light after 33 years of darkness, first fully solar-powered village in India

Posted by Angela Glienicke — 24 July 2014 at 4:03pm - Comments
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A solar powered street lamp seen at the Bishunpur Tolla, Dharnai village.

We just take it for granted: cleaning our teeth with an electric toothbrush in the morning, unlimited texting, tweeting and snap-chatting with our friends on the way to work, safe and well-lit streets, superfast internet access from our desk, the list goes on.<--break->

But for 300 million people in India this is not a given as they are still waiting for electricity.

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HSBC backs nuclear power in Indian earthquake zone

Posted by jamie — 11 May 2011 at 12:34pm - Comments
Site of the proposed nuclear power station in Jaitapur, India
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Site of the proposed nuclear power station in Jaitapur, India

Two months ago, an earthquake and tsunami hit Japan. This not only resulted in a huge natural disaster and humanitarian crisis, but also triggered an unprecedented man-made tragedy. And yet plans are afoot to build a nuclear power plant in another earthquake zone, this time in India.

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