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Port Metro Vancouver okays controversial coal shipping facility
2014-08-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Vancouver Sun: Port Metro Vancouver has approved a controversial $15-million coal-loading facility at Fraser Surrey Docks despite concerns for human health and the environment. Peter Xotta, the port's vice-president of planning and operations, told a news conference Thursday that a review by Golder Associates concluded "there are no significant adverse environmental effects, including health effects," that cannot be mitigated. But Dr. Paul Van Buynder, chief medical health officer for the Fraser Health Authority,...
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Coal gas boom in China holds climate change risks
2014-08-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Deep in the hilly grasslands of remote Inner Mongolia, twin smoke stacks rise more than 200 feet into the sky, their steam and sulfur billowing over herds of sheep and cattle. Both day and night, the rumble of this power plant echoes across the ancient steppe, and its acrid stench travels dozens of miles away. This is the first of more than 60 coal-to-gas plants China wants to build, mostly in remote parts of the country where ethnic minorities have farmed and herded for centuries. Fired up in...
TVA board votes to retire Memphis coal plant
2014-08-22 00:33:20| Energy - Topix.net
The Tennessee Valley Authority's board voted Thursday to retire the coal-fired Allen Fossil Plant in Memphis and replace it with a natural-gas facility, marking another step by the nation's largest utility to reduce its reliance on coal.
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Coal Terminal Decision Highlights Exports GHGs
2014-08-21 22:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: The U.S. coal industry took a hit this week when the state of Oregon created a roadblock to a major proposed coal export terminal, which in the end, would allow Wyoming coal to be shipped to power plants in Asia. At the same time, a new Duke University study was published saying that coal shipped to South Korea from the Oregon coal terminal, if it were to be built, would lead to a 21 percent drop in greenhouse gas emissions compared to burning the coal in the U.S. That's largely because of the...
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Cleaning coal: a timeline of the key moments in CCS
2014-08-21 01:00:00| Power Technology
The recent announcement from SaskPower that it is on track to complete the first retrofit of carbon capture and storage technology to a coal-fired power plant could constitute a much needed lifeline to the coal industry. Charting key historical event
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