Canada and UK Join to End Global Coal-fired Electricity
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'The war on coal is over:' Trump administration to terminate Obama's climate plan
'The war on coal is over:' Trump administration to terminate Obama's climate plan - Technology & Science - CBC News
Coal won't be part of energy's future - The Morning Call
The term "war on coal" is a modern political euphemism analogous to the advent of motorized transportation as being a "war on the horse and buggy" — it is pure hyperbole.
Statistically there are about 89,000 jobs in the coal industry (over half of those are in Kentucky and West Virginia) when a century ago there were over 700,000.
The term "war on coal" is a modern political euphemism analogous to the advent of motorized transportation as being a "war on the horse and buggy" — it is pure hyperbole.
Statistically there are about 89,000 jobs in the coal industry (over half of those are in Kentucky and West Virginia) when a century ago there were over 700,000.
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Yes, coal is so incredibly clean.
Scientists solve Mystery Of Historic 1952 London Fog And Current Chinese Haze
Researchers Solve Mystery Of Historic 1952 London Fog And Current Chinese Haze | Texas A&M Today
Yes, coal is so incredibly clean.
Scientists solve Mystery Of Historic 1952 London Fog And Current Chinese Haze
Researchers Solve Mystery Of Historic 1952 London Fog And Current Chinese Haze | Texas A&M Today
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The 1952 Great Smog of London, which killed around 12,000 people, arose at a time when not only trains and industries were using coal but so did almost every household. London and other British cities would have been full of millions of homes pumping out smoke through their chimneys from the coal fires in people's living rooms. People don't have coal fires nowadays and there aren't that many steam trains left. So the chances of a deadly smog arising in Britain from just some coal-fired power stations would be almost non-existent.
The 1952 Great Smog of London, which killed around 12,000 people, arose at a time when not only trains and industries were using coal but so did almost every household. London and other British cities would have been full of millions of homes pumping out smoke through their chimneys from the coal fires in people's living rooms. People don't have coal fires nowadays and there aren't that many steam trains left. So the chances of a deadly smog arising in Britain from just some coal-fired power stations would be almost non-existent.
It's not whether I think coal is clean or not (and some countries are developing clean coal technology) but whether I think coal should be used to generate power: and I think it should.
What's the point? Most politicians now are so far up the backsides of the Swampies that it'll take miracles for them to overturn the "green" policies which are giving us extortionate energy bills and which will cause our cities to lose power by 2030.
It's just a case of waiting for the inevitable to happen then tell the ecomaniacs "See, we told you so" before commonsense finally prevails and we dig up lots of that lovely coal to get the power back on.
Too bad Canada's leadership is too blinded by dogma to do the same thing.
Only you could come up with some totally irrelevant number and think you were contributing something intelligent to the conversation. The important number is the tons produced.
Coal can burn as clean as NG. Just requires the proper scrubbers.
Yeah of course the government (as did Volkswagen also ) turned down DYSON exhaust particle cleaning technology ( among others) so they could screw the peeps.
You like to screw the peeps eh?
that guy sure needs arguing lessons
Franky I would prefer to cut down on the amount of mercury vapor and other coal emission poisons that I inhale each day.
From where? Canadian coal fired power plants were all fitted with scrubbers back in 80's during the acid rain era. Evil Corporations made a killing off of SO2 cap and trade.
That's great. There is NG out the yin yang and coal has better uses like steel, nanotechnology, graphite etc.
Air circulates and gases and particles in the air circulate with it. If there is even one coal-fired plant in the world I am breathing its emissions and so are you. As for Canada, unless the scrubbers on coal-fired plants are 100%, which I am betting they are not, then they are still releasing poisons.
The war on coal is over. Coal lost.
https://www.theguardian.com/environ...2017/oct/16/the-war-on-coal-is-over-coal-lost
https://www.theguardian.com/environ...2017/oct/16/the-war-on-coal-is-over-coal-lost
4 signs that Trump’s furious efforts to save coal are futile
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/10/19/16494472/trump-coal-futile
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/10/19/16494472/trump-coal-futile
Well you know how it is when your information comes from lefty rags showing 1920 era coal plants. Notice all these anti fossil fuel types never complain about fossil fuel consumption outside the first world? Or about all the nuke plants spewing radioactive material into the environment all over other world?
Yes that must be te reason coal mines in BC are reopening.