Forget Paris: 1600 New Coal Power Plants Built Around The World
Posted: July 3, 2017 Filed under: Carbon Dioxide, Dud predictions, Empirical Evidence, Failed Green Schemes, Fossil Fuels, Renewables, Unreliables | Tags: China, Climate Change Scam, coal, coal fired power, Energy, Paris Accord, Paris Climate Treaty Leave a commentCHINA “leading the charge in renewable energy…” 😂
From the NYT
1,600 new coal-fired power plants are planned or under construction in 62 countries.
When China halted plans for more than 100 new coal-fired power plants this year, even as President Trump vowed to “bring back coal” in America, the contrast seemed to confirm Beijing’s new role as a leader in the fight against climate change.
But new data on the world’s biggest developers of coal-fired power plants paints a very different picture: China’s energy companies will make up nearly half of the new coal generation expected to go online in the next decade.
These Chinese corporations are building or planning to build more than 700 new coal plants at home and around the world, some in countries that today burn little or no coal, according to tallies compiled by Urgewald, an environmental group based in Berlin. Many of the plants are in China, but by capacity, roughly…
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