Posted on 06/22/2022 12:30:02 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
Austria, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands announced plans this week to prepare to resurrect old coal plants as gas supplies dwindled. The moves came just days after Moscow reduced natural gas flows to several European countries, including Italy and Slovakia, alarming leaders who are worried about energy reserves ahead of winter.
That’s not the direction in which these government wanted to move. A return to coal would controvert climate policy already in place in Amsterdam and Berlin. Some officials are concerned about the longer-term threat such a move would post to efforts to fight climate change in Europe.
“We have to make sure that we use this crisis to move forward and not to have a backsliding on the dirty fossil fuels,” European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen told reporters Tuesday.
Germany says it is restarting some coal power plants, while Austria is outfitting an existing plant to use coal. In the Netherlands, authorities have lifted production caps on coal-fired plants.
When it came to power late last year, the new German coalition government made up of the center-left Social Democrats, Greens and the liberal Free Democrats had put climate policy at the center of its agenda aiming to bring forward the country’s coal exit to 2030. Its ambitious plans also include aiming to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2045. But Russia’s war in Ukraine has shaken up plans amid uncertainty about Moscow’s natural gas supply cuts.
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The greenies will agreee because they are little pansies and do not wish to freeze to death in the dark.
What ? No wind farms, solar panels, electric vehicles to lead the way to abundant energy supplies? Maybe the bad, mean tweetin Orange Man was right after all.
The Russians provide about 70% of Europe’s coal. I wonder where they plan to buy the coal they need (we have lots, but it’s more expensive)?
It’s better than “Meloveyoulongtime Morris.”
Or, the UK and Norway could ramp up production and exploration in the North Sea.
Thank goodness, we already have a construction company to execute our new Marshall Plan. Get Biden, Inc. ready to hit the ground with shovel ready mounds of graft and corruption to move.
From Peter Schweizer:
“Let’s take the Iraq contracts for housing construction,” he explained. “We don’t know how much money was made by James Biden in that case, because he doesn’t have to disclose, but here’s what we know. This ‘Hillstone’ international company was set up, there was a meeting in the White House on November 4th, 2010, the only time the CEO of this company ever visited the White House, went to Joe Biden’s office, literally three weeks later, James Biden was appointed vice president of that company, and then about three to six months later, they get this contract to build 100,000 homes in Iraq. Now, if you look at the bio that they listed for James Biden, it didn’t mention anything about construction experience. It said that he knew his way around the corridors of power, he had political contacts. His brother was vice president of the United States.”
The UK and Germany both have large coal deposits
Not to worry, Attorney General Merrick Garland is in Ukraine... because... reasons. So is Ben Stiller, but at least he’s funny at times.
Soon in the US we will be cooking with dung.
But at least we have the peace of mind knowing Trump isn’t president.
Garland is funny too..it’s just not on purpose.
True. Just not funny haha.
“Peace is the answer.”
Then prepare for war.
“new Marshall plan”
Oh he!l no. We are broke. We don’t have the money.
Seems the brain dead Ukie war Cheerleaders are afraid to experience a REAL Cold War- not just Grandma found frozen, but entire families and villages dead of exposure….the casualties will be much greater than Biden’s Ukie war.
….and Vlad says CHECKMATE to the West - again!
funny as hell
just buy russian oil and gas from india and pretend its indian
Good. We still have lots of coal.
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