Consultation Document: Possible Investment Aid Scheme for the UK Coal Industry.
Government scoping paper to assess additional subsidization of the British coal industry.
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Background Paper: Reduction of Coal Subsidies - The Results of Model-Based Analysis.
Federal
Environmental Agency. The policy of subsidising coal mining exists on
borrowed time. Long-term subsidies for coal mining can be justified
neither on economic nor on environmental grounds.
Subsidies to Lignite Coal.
(In
German; Summary in English). Stefan Lechtenböhmer, Kora Kristof,
and Wolfgang Irrek. Wuppertal Institute. Detailed review of German
subsidies to brown coal (lignite). Quantifies support at a minimum of 1
billion Euros in direct support and an additional 3.5 billion in
externalities. Posted with Permission of the Wuppertal Institute.
The Rise and Fall of German Hard Coal Subsidies.
Karl Storchmann. Beginning with the coal crisis of 1958, the survival of the German hard coal mining sector has been heavily dependent on subsidies for several decades.
Money to Burn? The High Cost of Energy Subsidies.
Mark
Kosmo, World Resources Institute. Review of subsidies to electricity,
coal, oil, and natural gas in 32 countries using primarily the
price-gap method.
Coal In Europe: Implications of Dismantled Subsidies.
(Table of Contents, Volume 23, Issue 6). Energy Policy, V. 23, No. 6. Full articles available only through journal publisher, but abstracts can be viewed.
Reform of Coal Policies in Western and Central Europe: Implications for the Environment.
Ronald Steenblik and Panos Coroyannakis. Energy Policy, V. 23, No. 6, pp. 537-553. Full article only available through publisher.
Appendix D: Measurement of Financial Support for Coal Production Using a Producer Subsidy Equivalent Calculation
MEASURE, 1987. (Detail on producer-subsidy equivalent calculations for energy). in Coal Prospects and Policies in IEA Countries, 1987 Review,
International Energy Agency. Ron Steenblik, OECD. Discussion of methods
and challenges associated with extending the PSE, long used in
agriculture, to coal.