Tag: coal
Time-Lapse NASA Video 1984- 2009. – Mountain top coal mine spreads across West Virginia.
Surface mining may not move mountains. But a series of satellite views of a Boone County, West Virginia coal mine shows that the practice—also called mountaintop mining—can wipe out whole swaths of forests.
Video: Hobet Mine, 1984-2009
Taken between 1984 and 2009 by NASA’s Landsat 5 satellite, the true-color pictures document the evolution of the Hobet mine in the [...]
Posted: March 17th, 2010 under General.
Tags: coal, Coal mining, Stop Coal
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Lawmakers From Coal States Seek to Delay Emission Limits
WASHINGTON from the New Your Times — Coal-country lawmakers moved Thursday to impose a two-year moratorium on potential federal regulation of carbon dioxide and other climate-altering gases.
Senator John D. Rockefeller IV, Democrat of West Virginia, said theEnvironmental Protection Agency should refrain from issuing any new rules on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants and other major [...]
Posted: March 5th, 2010 under Climate Change, Climate Politics, General.
Tags: Climate Change, CO2 Emissions, coal, Coal Fired Power Stations, coal lobby, Coal mining, global warming, Obama administration, United States
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Does the Huge China-Australia Coal Deal Square With the Copenhagen Accord?
Environmental activists are attacking a $60 billion deal that will keep Chinese power stations supplied with Australian coal for at least the next two decades. Under the agreement announced last week, the Australian coal and iron ore mining company Resourcehouse will build a new mining complex to give China Power International Development 30 million tonnes [...]
Posted: February 18th, 2010 under Climate Change, Climate Politics, General, World News.
Tags: Australia, China, Climate Change, CO2 Emissions, CO2 levels, coal, Coal Fired Power Stations, Coal mining, pollution, Stop Coal
Comments: 1
What is China’s next move?
By Bob Williamson
As has been highlighted in several articles such as, ‘Consumption in a finite world of resources. – How can we sustain a future that isn’t FINITE?’
‘The Most IMPORTANT Video You’ll Ever See and The SCARIEST Facts You’ll Ever Read!’
‘Undercover of Consumerism and Complacency, our democracy and self rule were usurped.’
‘Economic & Environmental Sustainability [...]
Posted: February 18th, 2010 under Climate Change, Climate Politics, Foundation News, General, World News.
Tags: China, coal, finite resources, Peak Oil, resource depletion, World Oil Reserves
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Activist Biggers fights uphill battle against dirty coal
High unemployment and powerful industry make new mining limits unlikely
Most of us take it for granted that when we flip the switch, the lights will go on. Sure, we write the electric company a monthly check, but otherwise lend no thought to the source of the power — like urban kids clueless that chicken originates [...]
Posted: February 11th, 2010 under Action Needed, Climate Change, Climate Politics, General.
Tags: activist, Climate Change, CO2 levels, coal, Coal Fired Power Stations, coal lobby, Coal mining, global warming, Stop Coal
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When Coal Flows Between Countries, Who ‘Owns’ the CO2 that results?
Greenhouse Neutral Foundation comment: I have long said that Australia while claiming to have around 1.46% of total global emissions of CO2 exports its contribution proudly for the emissions of 30% of total world export coal. This hypocrisy seems now to be gaining some other popular consensus and discussion. I am pleased to finally see [...]
Posted: February 10th, 2010 under Climate Change, Climate Politics, General.
Tags: Australia, China, Climate Change, CO2 levels, coal, Coal Fired Power Stations, global warming
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The Most IMPORTANT Video You’ll Ever See and The SCARIEST Facts You’ll Ever Read!
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When viewing this video presentation explaining the simple math of the Exponential Function, there are a couple of observations that the Greenhouse Neutral Foundation would [...]
Posted: January 31st, 2010 under Action Needed, Climate Politics, Foundation News, General, Tipping Points, World News.
Tags: China, Climate Change, CO2 levels, coal, Coal Fired Power Stations, global warming, United States, World News
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Investing in coal is dysfunctional
Power companies, investment bankers and pension fund managers are fuelling an unlivable future – with our money
The acid test of the Copenhagen climate change summit was always going to be coal. Had governments managed to come up with a meaningful agreement, those who seek to continue burning coal would have faced significant risk that they [...]
Posted: January 11th, 2010 under Climate Change, General.
Tags: Climate Change, climate change emissions reductions, CO2 levels, coal, Coal Fired Power Stations, coal lobby, subsidies
Comments: 1
Chapter 1 – The Flick of a Switch.
ZERO Greenhouse Emissions – The Day the Lights Went Out – Our Future World
(available in Hard Cover $24, or in e-book form $9.99)
Author Bob Williamson – Chair & Founder of the Greenhouse Neutral Foundation
Chapter 1
The Flick of a Switch.
Looking back it all seemed to happen with the flick of a switch. The morning came as [...]
Posted: December 29th, 2009 under Climate Change, Foundation News, General, Nature.
Tags: catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, climate change emissions reductions, CO2 levels, coal, emissions reductions, global warming, natural systems, stop climate change, Tipping Points
Comments: 1
There really is clean coal!
Mother Nature had the right idea when she sequestered carbon away over the millennia. And like any woman she loves diamonds. So her plan was that eventually everyone would have the opportunity to have some.
What she didn’t see coming was that we would get to it first before she had time to finish the process [...]
Posted: December 16th, 2009 under General, Nature.
Tags: coal, Stop Coal
Comments: 2
