Clean coal to qualify for Kyoto carbon offsets - Reuters

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Clean coal to qualify for Kyoto carbon offsets
Fri Sep 14, 2007 9:30am EDT

By Gerard Wynn

LONDON (Reuters) - Very efficient coal-fired power
plants will be able to sell carbon offsets under the
Kyoto Protocol, in an expansion of project eligibility
under the carbon trading scheme, U.N. official Jose
Miguez said.

"It was approved," he told Reuters on Friday.

-snip-

Until now the scheme had mostly financed projects
to install renewable energy like wind, or to destroy
powerful greenhouse gases from the chemicals
industry and from landfill rubbish dumps, especially
in China, India and Brazil.

Under the amended rules, power plants in countries
where coal accounts for more than half of all
electricity generation will be able to apply, Miguez
said.

-snip-

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSGOR44793820070914

[groovedaddy]

1. better for the atmosphere but catastrophic for surface areas,

including streams and rivers. The devastating practice of mountaintop removal will increase as a result of this.

[Maestro]

3. The criminal admin is already wanting to expand

mountaintop removal practices.

[razzleberry]

4. the US is not participating in the Kyoto scam .n/t.

[Kolesar]

2. Article does not even say "sequestration" is required.

They could be meeting the goal by just installing more efficient coal-gasification generation or combined heat and power for all I know. :shrug:

[Dead_Parrot]

5. What... The... Fuck...

:banghead:

[losthills]

6. More evidence...

that world leaders really do not have the will to address global warming in any serious way.