Obama administration can’t wait to sell China all the coal it can burn

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Here's a recipe for climate catastrophe: First, authorize enough new coal production in Wyoming to yield 3.9 billion tons of heat-trapping greenhouse gases. Then authorize a new export terminal in northwest Washington to ship that black gold to Asia, where the other half of Chimerica will burn it to power the factories we shipped them in the infinite wisdom of globalization.

This process is called carbon offshoring, and it's the nastiest, planet-killingest scheme of which you've probably never heard. China is just the beginning:

In a statement on November 12, the chairman of Coal India Ltd., a state-controlled entity and the world's largest coal producer, with a near-monopoly on Indian coal mining, confirmed that the firm was in talks with several U.S. coal companies to buy stakes in mines throughout the continental U.S. According to the Associated Press, Coal India has budgeted $1.2bn this year alone to buy American, Australian, and Indonesian coal mines.

It's an enormous -- and growing -- problem that has gone largely unexamined by folks in the U.S. who should be paying attention, says Daniel Firger of Columbia University's Center for Climate Change Law.

Firger's solution? The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States should block these deals on national security grounds, since "the Pentagon's most recent Quadrennial Defense Review highlighted climate change as a threat to national security."

http://www.grist.org/article/2011-03-24-obama-administration-cant-wait-to-sell-china-all-the-coal-it-can

[lostinblue 1,989]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15280495/ns/business-oil_and_energy/

Boom in U.S. coal plants poses big questions

1) The U.S. has the world's largest coal reserves, enough to last for the next 200 to 250 years, analysts believe.

2）Some 154 new coal-fired plants are on the drawing board in 42 states. Texas and Illinois are the only states where 10 or more plants are planned, according to the National Energy Technology Laboratory.

3）Coal now accounts for about 50 percent of the power generated in the U.S. By the year 2030, that share will increase to 57 percent, according to Energy Department forecasts.

4）the proposed plants will meet the state's growing demand for power, give a sorely needed economic boost to nearby small towns and will reduce toxic emissions by replacing older, less efficient plants.

5）It puts UNION workers back to work.

It is time to put our energy reserves back to work and with it american jobs. Keep our money here in this country.

It looks like Japan will need coal also. A great day for america. Mine baby Mine.

[mawilson 2,133]

It looks like Japan will need coal also. A great day for america. Mine baby Mine.

I agree. It's either coal or back to riding horses in 20 years. Natural gas is another alternative and something we have plenty of.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

It would be nasty if global warming were real.

But it is funny, you have to admit. A more incompetent President we have never had.

In the meantime we will be taxed (probably not really since the Repubs got elected to the House) and forced to use expensive alternative energy to prevent global warming.

And you STILL believe this is not a hoax?

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

[/indent] It's an enormous -- and growing -- problem that has gone largely unexamined by folks in the U.S. who should be paying attention, says Daniel Firger of Columbia University's Center for Climate Change Law.

Firger's solution? The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States should block these deals on national security grounds, since "the Pentagon's most recent Quadrennial Defense Review highlighted climate change as a threat to national security."

http://www.grist.org/article/2011-03-24-obama-administration-cant-wait-to-sell-china-all-the-coal-it-can

we need more money for research to "examine" the problem.

If this "committee of foreign blah, blah, blah" blocks this, the Repub house will de-fund the do nothing committee. I hope they try it, we need to cut the deficit more.

[Obama 2012 1,714]

Here's a recipe for climate catastrophe: First, authorize enough new coal production in Wyoming to yield 3.9 billion tons of heat-trapping greenhouse gases. Then authorize a new export terminal in northwest Washington to ship that black gold to Asia, where the other half of Chimerica will burn it to power the factories we shipped them in the infinite wisdom of globalization.

This process is called carbon offshoring, and it's the nastiest, planet-killingest scheme of which you've probably never heard. China is just the beginning:

In a statement on November 12, the chairman of Coal India Ltd., a state-controlled entity and the world's largest coal producer, with a near-monopoly on Indian coal mining, confirmed that the firm was in talks with several U.S. coal companies to buy stakes in mines throughout the continental U.S. According to the Associated Press, Coal India has budgeted $1.2bn this year alone to buy American, Australian, and Indonesian coal mines.

It's an enormous -- and growing -- problem that has gone largely unexamined by folks in the U.S. who should be paying attention, says Daniel Firger of Columbia University's Center for Climate Change Law.

Firger's solution? The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States should block these deals on national security grounds, since "the Pentagon's most recent Quadrennial Defense Review highlighted climate change as a threat to national security."

http://www.grist.org/article/2011-03-24-obama-administration-cant-wait-to-sell-china-all-the-coal-it-can

lol, grist again. ha.