Category Archives: Coal

India rejects climate doom, pursues economic boom

(July 26, 2008) India loves the UN’s climate change policies and so does India’s representative at the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Rajendra Pachauri. Continue reading

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Europe’s Coal Renaissance

(April 24, 2008) Coal is back, despite — and perhaps also because of — attempts to beat it back. Continue reading

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Ontario’s Roadmap

(March 10, 2008) Energy policy isn’t just consuming U.S. lawmakers. It’s also dominating the Canadian agenda and particularly the province of Ontario. Continue reading

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Coal enters rehab

(December 7, 2007) Coal, chock-full of substances of known toxicity, epitomizes dirty fuel. The perils in coal burning – and this is an abbreviated list – include fly ash and heavy metals such as arsenic, lead, mercury, sulpher, vanedium, beryllium, cadmium, barium, chromium, molybdenum, zinc, selenium, radium, uranium and thorium. Continue reading

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Call Iran’s bluff

(September 28, 2006) If the United States imposes meaningful economic sanctions on Iran, let alone tries a military strike against its nuclear facilities, Iran threatens to play its oil card. Continue reading

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Scouring scum and tar from the bottom of the pit

(July 1, 2006) Faced with the undeniable reality of “Hubbard’s Peak” in global conventional oil supplies, the world’s largest multinational energy corporations are now hell-bent on squeezing oil out of tar in northern Alberta, like junkies desperately conniving for one last giant fix in a futile attempt to quench America’s insatiable “addiction to oil” (described so eloquently by President George Bush II). Continue reading

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Haldimand County : Coal Fired Plant in Ontario Not As Dirty As Reported

(October 7, 2005) A report by Energy Probe says coal-fired power stations such as Nanticoke’s aren’t as big as a polluter as originally thought. Continue reading

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