Global Warming & The Future of Coal - Getting Coal Clean

Ever-rising industrial and consumer demand for more power in tandem with cheap and abundant coal reserves across the globe are expected to result in the construction of new coal-fired power plants producing 1,400 gigawatts of electricity by 2030, according to the International Energy Agency. In the absence of emission controls, these new plants will increase worldwide annual emissions of carbon dioxide by approximately 7.6 billion metric tons by 2030. These emissions would equal roughly 50 percent of all fossil fuel emissions over the past 250 years.

Read the new Center for American Progress report at http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/05/coal_report.html

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[greyflcn]

CCS should scare the hell out of people.

greyfalcon. net/ ccs

[qantmrckr]

I recently signed a petition to protest the unwanted displacement of one of the last indian reservations in Kentucky because they want to mine for coal at that location. Will our Govt. look out for these native Americans or will history repeat itself?

In Richmond, Va. a school is being closed in order to mine for coal at that location. Protestors arrested.

(West Virginia Gazette 03/17/07)

Will this industry be laying claim to any location where coal exists?

[florian116]

king coal aggressively fought greenhouse gas reduction efforts for a decade...and now carbon capture and sequestration suddenly makes sense to the mining companies and electric utilities? ...their past behavior and current lack of credibility suggests CCS is simply a plan to pick my pocket