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To: zzpat who wrote (1039747)	11/21/2017 1:32:30 PM
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So China halts 100 plants amidst 1,100 to be build and the story in our media is “China pulls back on coal”? 1600 New Coal Power Plants Built Around The World There is an International coal boom going on - coal power capacity to expand by 43% Almost every country in Asia is building or plans to build coal plants, even many in the oil rich ME. China is a major builder, not just in their country but elsewhere too. charles the moderator / 1 day ago July 3, 2017 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 coalgeneration 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 a fifth of these new coal power stations are in other countries. Over all, 1,600 coal plants are planned or under construction in 62 countries, according to Urgewald’s tally, which uses data from the Global Coal Plant Tracker portal. The new plants would expand the world’s coal-fired power capacity by 43 percent. The fleet of new coal plants would make it virtually impossible to meet the goals set in the Paris climate accord, which aims to keep the increase in global temperatures from preindustrial levels below 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit. Electricity generated from fossil fuels like coal is the biggest single contributor globally to the rise in carbon emissions, which scientists agree is causing the Earth’s temperatures to rise. “Even today, new countries are being brought into the cycle of coal dependency,” said Heffa Schücking, the director of Urgewald. The United States may also be back in the game. On Thursday, Mr. Trump said he wanted to lift Obama-era restrictions on American financing for overseas coal projects as part of an energy policy focused on exports. “We have nearly 100 years’ worth of natural gas and more than 250 years’ worth of clean, beautiful coal,” he said. “We will be dominant. We will export American energy all over the world, all around the globe.” hat tip\The Global Warming Policy Foundation wattsupwiththat.com Taylor Ponlman July 3, 2017 at 4:18 am So China halts 100 plants amidst 1,100 to be build and the story in our media is “China pulls back on coal”?