11 April, 2017

Coal smoke and mirrors reflect poorly on what's really happening

See if you can pick it. The economy-wide plan calls for a halt to new coal-fired generators and a tripling of renewable energy generation within five years to deliver 175GW of green power in a bid to clear the air and curb sky-rocketing greenhouse emissions.
Workers take break at a coal wholesale market in Mumbai, India.
Workers take break at a coal wholesale
market in Mumbai, India.
South Australia? Denmark? China even? No. It's India.
But isn't India hungry for as much Australian coal as it can get with one of its companies, Adani, developing the world's largest coal mine in Queensland's Galilee Basin?

Yes, but that is only part of the India picture.

Read Mark Kenny’s comments in today’s Melbourne Age - “Coal smoke and mirrors reflect poorly on what's really happening.”



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