Werent we in Iloilo just assured by our leaders that coal - fired plants from china were safe? This week, the Chinese government vowed to launch a “war on pollution.†Public enemy number one will have to be coal-fired power plants, whose emissions kill more than a quarter-million people a year, according to Greenpeace. In fact, a coal industry forum this week declared that China’s coal consumption will peak by 2020 (link in Chinese), and then start falling by 0.4% annually thereafter.
Posted on: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 14:37:28 +0000