Posted on 02/19/2021 6:41:14 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
As the climate crisis worsens, Andrés Manuel López Obrador plans to buy nearly 2m tons of thermal coal from small producers
“We’re reactivating the industry,” said Arturo Rivera Wong, who had just taken on 40 more workers at the mine he owns in the scrublands of the border state of Coahuila.
“Four furnaces at the big thermoelectric plant are going to be reactivated,” he explained. “This is going to kickstart coal sales.”
Mexico is moving in the opposite direction.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, popularly known as Amlo, has unveiled plans to buy nearly 2m tons of thermal coal from small producers like Rivera. He also plans to reactivate a pair of coal-fired plants on the Texas border, which were being wound down as natural gas and renewables took a more prominent role in Mexico’s energy mix.
Not only is López Obradorbetting big on fossil fuels, he is also curtailing clean energy.
...To stay afloat, Rivera shut down the mine, and sold 20 cows and the house he had inherited from his mother. Some of his employees were forced to scrounge for nuts to feed their families. His company now extracts 700 tons of coal a week...
Workers preparing to reopen the coalmines seemed more worried about work than the climate
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
No fracking strata in Mehiko?
The first five words of that article are false.
Why on earth would they use a resource they have when they could dine on pie in the sky?
Where are the Mexican unicorns? Are there no farts to harvest?
Mexico is going to be the place to be.
“But I hope we can always sell coal because we make more money from it.”
Pls explain?
The first five words of the article are “As the climate crisis worsens,” and, yes, that’s a complete lie.
Texas should bring in Electricity from Met-E-Co.
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” Climate leader?” Define what that means,
and why is that important? Is Chona a” climate leader?” How about India or I Indonesia? NOSENSE. More leftist gobbledidook as Rush liked to say. Pure propaganda to force everyone into conformity and control. Nonsense.
Remember the Amlo
“Mexico is going to be the place to be.”
Coal, a mechanism to increase employment without stealing money from the taxpayers.
Sounds good to me.
It is thought that there will be in excess of 75,000 suicides in the USA resulting from the covid lockdown, crushing the citizens to death with debt.
If mining coal saves only...
A country in which energy is priced out of reach of ordinary people, and who's leadership flies around in government-owned jet airplanes talking about how important it is to take action against global warming, and how bad the United States is.
Thank you, for some reason, I was thinking the LAST five words?
If they didn’t have the cartels, I would be having serious thoughts on moving.
The 20 million mexicans here dont seem to feel that way.
Convince them of your opinion, please!!! :)
This AMLO has been a pleasant surprise. I’d take him any day over the senile fraud.
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