Business Green: Plans for Australia’s first commercial coal gasification project have moved forward with an A$40m (US$33.6m) investment from South Korean conglomerate Samsung Corp. The funding completes the A$500m in total equity sought for the coal-to-fertiliser plant in Western Australia state by Perdaman Industries — a Perth-based company headed by Indian industrialist Vikas Rambal, which is also investigating installing carbon capture technologies at the “clean coal” facility. Perdeman is …