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 Stories About: World Bank AND energy AND coal AND India
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Is the World Bank coal-fused?
Coal still has no place in clean development |
Joseph Romm |
08 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
| You knew it had to happen: the World Bank now has the same climate sensibility as ... the Kansas House. Scientist Jim Hansen, on the other hand, has requested a meeting with Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers, arguing for a moratorium on coal plants until carbon capture and storage technology is available. Even Wall Street looks on coal skeptically. Last Friday, the Kansas House failed to override Sebelius' veto of two new plants by only one vote. And the World Bank is con ... |
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| Topics: climate, coal, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, India, insanity, politics, World Bank (all these topics) |
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David Roberts |
08 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
| What does it say about humanity if, knowing what we know, we stand by and allow a 4,000 MW dirty coal plant get built? |
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| Topics: coal, energy, India, World Bank (all these topics) |
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World's dumbest project: Tata Ultra Mega
How a twisted definition is setting up a monumental folly in India |
Ted Nace |
20 Mar 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Here is how the World Bank proposes to solve climate change: lend money to build a 4,000-megawatt coal plant in India that will emit 25.7 million tons of carbon dioxide per year. By way of comparison, that's half a million tons more than the worst carbon emitter in North America, the Scherer plant near Macon, Georgia. In a weird distortion of logic, Tata Ultra Mega is considered a Clean Development Mechanism by the organization that administers the Kyoto Protocol. This ... |
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| Topics: World Bank, energy, coal, India (all these topics) |
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