Tag: coal
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
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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.’ [...]
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 [...]
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!
Want a weekly update of all the greatest posts on the web? Subscribe for a weekly email and never miss a story! Email to Bob Williamson in the subject line type SUBSCRIBE When viewing this video presentation explaining the simple math of the Exponential Function, there are a couple of observations that the Greenhouse Neutral Foundation [...]
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 [...]
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
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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 [...]
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
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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 [...]
Posted: December 16th, 2009 under General, Nature.
Tags: coal, Stop Coal
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Robert Kennedy, Jr. is to lead a protest on mountaintop removal
(Charleston) Environmental activist Robert Kennedy, Jr. will headline a rally outside the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection Monday. Kennedy, the son of the late Bobby Kennedy, is a long time environmental lawyer and activist. He’s been arrested for trespassing due to his activism and even spent a month in prison. Kennedy will gather with several [...]
Posted: December 7th, 2009 under General.
Tags: activists, climate change emissions reductions, coal, major polluters, natural systems, United States
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Australia: A nation for heads in the sand “She’ll be right mate!”
Something in the frontier ethic of the ‘big country’ still leads many of its residents to declare: ‘Mate, we don’t believe in climate change.’ Australia is the hottest and, bar Antartica, driest continent on Earth. Parts have been embroiled in record drought for the past decade, leaving reservoirs empty and agriculture decimated. Things got so bad [...]
Posted: December 1st, 2009 under Climate Change, General, Nature, Negotiations.
Tags: Australia, catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, climate change emissions reductions, coal, Coal Fired Power Stations, global warming, International negotiations, methane, pollution
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