Then, when the cameras shut off, they turn to each other...
Posted on 07/29/2022 2:44:58 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
China is stepping up construction of coal-fired power stations and has ordered an extra 300 million tonnes of the fossil fuel to be mined every year as it apparently contradicts its own climate change commitments.
Beijing approved the construction of 8.63 gigawatts (GW) of coal power in the first quarter of this year, nearly half the amount seen in all last year, according to a report from Greenpeace East Asia.
President Xi last year committed to phase down coal use from 2026 to tackle China’s position as the world’s biggest emitter by volume of greenhouse gases. However, climate experts are concerned those targets are undermined with a government focused on economic challenges.
The approval for coal-fired power gathered momentum in the fourth quarter of last year after China began suffering nationwide power shortages, Greenpeace said. As a result, 11GW of capacity was approved in the last quarter, from a total of 18.55GW last year. That momentum has continued into this year, the group said.
China relies on coal for about 60 per cent of its electricity and has asked domestic miners to increase capacity by 300 million tonnes this year. Electricity consumption has surged this summer as China suffers an intense heatwave, with air conditioning cranked up at homes and businesses.
The State Council, China’s cabinet, announced 10 billion yuan (£1.2 billion) of investment in coal power generation in May, as coal producers were pressed to ramp up output.
“Energy security has become a sort of code word for coal, rather than for reliable supply of energy,” said a spokesman for Greenpeace.
“Building more coal-fired power capacity will not provide energy security for China. This is a deep-seated falsehood. An overcapacity of this one energy source is a major hurdle for energy security, as well as China’s energy transition.”
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Global coal production in 2019 is estimated at 7.9 billion tonnes, increasing by 116 million tonnes from 2018.
Then, when the cameras shut off, they turn to each other...
300 million tons and what do we get?
Another year older and more yuans in debt
Chairman Xi dont ya call me cause I can’t go
Cause I owe my Commie soul to people’s progressive store.
As sung by Citizen Ten-yen-si Ooonee Ford
Yet the Extinction Rebellion nutcases continue to glue themselves to stuff and disrupt traffic. Like tiny UK ruining itself cutting its carbon emissions would help anything even IF AGW is real.
Good one!
Proving that “Global Warming” is a sucker’s game.
It has taken Obama nine years but his promise to bankrupt coal fired electric generation in America is being rapidly fulfilled.
Don’t encourage me.
While the European unwashed starve and freeze in the dark
I see that 80% of their ground water is contaminated.
And let me guess. We’ll be buying.
God, we’re dumb!
See “26 Coal-Fired Power Plants in 14 States Plan to Stop Burning Coal Due to New Rule”
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4081950/posts
While the Biden administration is shutting down coal plants here in the U.S.
China will be warm this winter. The rest of the world will be begging to pay exorbitant prices for coal.
Mexico should be building coal plants all ove northern Mexico to sell electricity to the dumb Americans.
Why bother, they’re making a killing selling coke, meth and fentanyl.
Meanwhile out here on the west coast at a nearby port there is a near CONSTANT stream of train cars carrying coal headed TO the port. I assume we’re shipping it to China.
There are a lot of people who support this who are in for a rude awakening when when the ability to heat their homes diminishes next winter.
There will be a time when simply increasing the prices won’t be enough, because the ability to produce more and make a profit won’t be a viable option.
If they froze to death in their damned houses I honestly wouldn’t give a crap. But that won’t happen just to them. Many of us are going to go down too.
Insanity.
Does this mean lotsa libiot heads are gonna explode?
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