China urges miners to increase high-grade coal supplies for heating
Posted: December 28, 2017 | Author: Jamie Spry | Filed under: Communism, Energy Poverty, Fact Check, Failed Green Schemes, Fossil Fuels, Green Agenda, Renewables, Solar, Unreliables, Wind Farms | Tags: China, Communism, Energy, Energy Poverty, Fuel Poverty, Green Energy Failure, Socialism, solar, Solar panels, UN, UNEP, unreliables |Leave a commentRATHER telling when the likes of the Guardian lambasts China’s absurd move to ramp up coal-fired power to ensure the wellbeing of their most vulnerable, demonising “dirty” (lifesaving) coal without a single mention of unreliables to stop the supposed rot. Cowards.
NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood
Oh, the joys of central planning!
From Reuters:
BEIJING (Reuters) – China has urged coal miners to increase high-grade coal supplies to ensure heating fuel for winter, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) said in a statement on Tuesday.
The statement comes after the central government scaled back its plan earlier this month to convert northern cities to natural gas from coal for heating, because provinces across China had warned of gas shortages.
The NDRC asked miners to put more high-grade coal projects into operation “as soon as possible”.
Coal-fired power plants are also encouraged to increase their thermal coal stockpiles and upgrade their equipment to reduce emissions.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-pollution-coal/china-urges-miners-to-increase-high-grade-coal-supplies-for-heating-idUSKBN1EK0FU
The Guardian also reported on the problems in China earlier this month:
While middle class Beijingers breathe the cleanest air in recent winters, in Zhuozhou, a small city 20 minutes by train from Beijing’s downtown, residents are…
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