{"id":500519,"date":"2022-06-24T12:06:51","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T06:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=500519"},"modified":"2022-06-24T13:10:27","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T07:40:27","slug":"india-must-colour-coal-cash-green-for-mining-communities-to-survive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-must-colour-coal-cash-green-for-mining-communities-to-survive\/","title":{"rendered":"India must colour coal cash green for mining communities to survive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year in October, cash registers ring in shops dotting east India&#8217;s mining hubs during the Hindu festival season of Dussehra, when the country&#8217;s biggest coal company, Coal India Ltd NSE -0.14 %., hands its workers a bonus.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers and unions are calling for this coal cash &#8211; which fuels spending in homes and local economies &#8211; and the revenue local governments earn from coal mining firms to be mapped as a first step towards planning for a post-coal economy.<\/p>\n<p>India is aiming to more than triple its renewable energy capacity by 2030 &#8211; but state support for renewables projects is still a fraction of that for fossil fuels, as coal production is also being ramped up to meet rising energy demand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year in October, cash registers ring in shops dotting east India&#8217;s mining hubs during the Hindu festival season of Dussehra, when the country&#8217;s biggest coal company, Coal India Ltd NSE -0.14 %., hands its workers a bonus. Researchers and unions are calling for this coal cash &#8211; which fuels spending in homes and local economies &#8211; and the revenue local governments earn from coal mining firms to be mapped as a first step towards planning for a post-coal economy. India is aiming to more than triple its renewable energy capacity by 2030 &#8211; but state support for renewables projects [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}