New coal-fired power stations: World 621, Australia zero. Now understand?
SEPTEMBER 14, 2017
Does this perhaps explain why we’re running out of electricity yet paying through the nose?
Google: World building new coal plants faster than it shuts them
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*** Nations around the world are building coal-fired power plants at a faster rate than those being decommissioned. The plants under construction reflect a 10 per cent increase to the total global generation powered by coal.
New electricity generated by coal-fired plants will outstrip that which was retired in 2015 and 2016 by a factor of five.
China: 299
India: 132
Indonesia: 32
World: 621
Australia: zero
The data was requested by Nationals senator and party whip John Williams, who has argued that the carbon emissions produced by the new plants worldwide would eclipse Australia’s total carbon emission profile.
“We don’t have a tent over Australia … emissions are going up around the world because of these generators being built,” Senator Williams told The Australian. “We are bowing down to the green agenda which will make no difference to the world’s emissions.
“It makes no sense. We will de-industrialise Australia and let everything be manufactured overseas with higher emissions.”
