Climate Change - Coal the bad guy -Not oil or conventional gas.

[L Gilbert]

There is not and never will be clean smelting.

No-one ever said there would be. You only ASSumed I said that.

It's just sweeping under the rug.

In a sense. But you haven't shown where I was wrong about the river and the atmosphere being better off. So as I sadi before, you're just throwing up dust to hide the fact that you made idiotic comments. Or, in shorter terminology, sniveling.

If I let a canister of H2S (analogous to the smelting effluent) empty itself into a room, the room is pretty much uninhabitable. If I suck that H2S up and stick it into the canister (analogous to the smelter's effluent pond), is the room not better off for being habitable? The stuff still exists but it isn't in the room any longer. You don't have a lucid argument. Get it?

 

[petros]

No-one ever said there would be. You only ASSumed I said that.

In a sense. But you haven't shown where I was wrong about the river and the atmosphere being better off.

Put on your swimming trunks, I'll meet you down by the slag pits and toxic holding ponds I want to see you swim and roll around in the toxic slag DUST.

DUH!

 

[Tonington]

EPA to impose first greenhouse gas limits on power plants - The Washington Post

The Environmental Protection Agency will issue the first limits on greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants as early as Tuesday, according to several people briefed on the proposal. The move could end the construction of conventional coal-fired facilities in the United States.

The proposed rule — years in the making and approved by the White House after months of review — will require any new power plant to emit no more than 1,000 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt of electricity produced. The average U.S. natural gas plant, which emits 800 to 850 pounds of CO2 per megawatt, meets that standard; coal plants emit an average of 1,768 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt.
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[petros]

EPA to impose first greenhouse gas limits on power plants - The Washington Post

Good thing they will be replaced by Nat Gas turbines. They are "green".

 

[Kakato]

Not all coal is used for power generation,mostly the crappy stuff,the real good met coal is exported to China and the USA and is blended with their crappy coal to make a useable product.Allmost all the coal in B.C. is exported to China.
We used to mine it and make money when it was selling at $32.00/Tonne and i'm not sure what the price is now but they are raking in the money.