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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take that brandon
Russia .3%! I think that they will. Win the war.
The Yurps are finally starting to wake up to reality. Have a modern economy or sacrifice to Gaia. You can only do one of the two.
Tropic Thunder was fantastic.
Mainly due to Robert Downey Jr and Tom Cruise.
I think the way the geology works, natural gas is present in small amounts with coal. Commercial production of natural gas is associated with commercial production of liquid petroleum products, similar techniques and locations.
That was one that snuck up on me. My sides were hurting the day after I watched it. What a cast!
This one is in for trouble down the road.
Yes, Greta Thunberg is Swedish. And in all seriousness, I feel sorry for her. Like most people her age, she knows next to nothing. That’s not a knock. At her age, I knew next to nothing.
But I was left alone. Thunberg is not being left alone. She is being exploited by cynical people. Nevertheless, I will continue to post that picture of her. It’s not about Thunberg personally. It’s about the idiocy she represents.
climate change clean coal funny
“Chokehold.” Haha, no such thing. Just pay them for it. They are not withholding gas. The collective west is acting like children.
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