Coal Boom: India Slashes Plans For New Nuclear Reactors By Two-Thirds
Coal Boom: India Slashes Plans For New Nuclear Reactors By Two-Thirds http://www.thegwpf.com/coal-boom-india-slashes-plans-for-new-nuclear-reactors-by-two-thirds/ India has decided to cut its planned nuclear power plant construction by two-thirds. This will further expand the country’s use of coal for electrical power generation The Financial Express, one of India’s major newspapers, reports that the Narendra Modi government, which had set […]
Hurray for coal power plants in India
Hurray for coal power plants in India http://sunshinehours.net/2017/11/16/hurray-for-coal-power-plants-in-india/ Hurray for coal power plants “Coal plants will have some sort of pollution control as compared to nothing at the farm level,” said Chandra Bhushan. deputy director general of the Centre for Science and Environment, a non-government organization. — gReader Pro
Claim: 59,300 Indian Suicides because Climate
Eric Worrall / 29 mins ago July 31, 2017 India Wheat Yield Tonnes per Hectare. Data Source OECD Guest essay by Eric Worrall A new study claims every degree of temperature above 20C increase the likelihood an Indian farmer will commit suicide. Just one problem with this claim: Indian agricultural yields are rising (see graph above). Crop-damaging temperatures increase […]
Coal To Remain India’s Main Energy Source For At Least 30 Years, Govt Confirms
Coal will remain India’s main energy source for the next three decades although its share will gradually fall as the country pushes renewable power generation, according to a government report seen by Reuters. The country is the world’s third-largest coal producer and the third-biggest greenhouse gas emitter. Source: Coal To Remain India’s Main Energy Source […]
India meets climate goals early by doubling coal, and keeping it as main energy source for next 30 years
In the last day in the media, India is going to use coal as its backbone energy for the next thirty years, is buying coal mines all around the world, and will double production by 2020 to a massive 1,500 billion tons per annum. At the same time India is meetings its climate goals early, […]
Why India and Pakistan Are Renewing Their Love Affair with Coal
One nation is shirking emissions targets and the other is investing in more coal plants—but with America as a role model, that’s hardly surprising. by Jamie Condliffe May 3, 20 Much of the world agrees: burning coal is bad, and we ought to do less of it. But not everyone sings from that sheet, including Pakistan’s […]
‘Less than nothing’: Climate scientist slams China, India’s Paris pledges to fight global warming
Testifying before Congress, former UN climate scientist Dr Patrick Michaels says the Paris climate commitments from China “are nothing but business as usual” and “the Indian commitment is less than nothing.” Michaels: “They’re not doing anything.” Hearing: At what cost? Examining the Social Cost of Carbon Subcommittee on Environment US House Science Committee February […]
India To Overtake U.S. And China As World’s Biggest Coal Miner
India is set to surpass the U.S. as the world’s biggest coal producer after China by 2020, as state-miner Coal India Ltd. ramps up output to meet demand from domestic power producers, according to BMI Research. The South Asian nation’s share of world output will increase to 12.7 percent by 2020 from 9.8 percent in […]
NYT: Emerging Climate Accord Could Push A/C Out of Sweltering India’s Reach
By ELLEN BARRY and CORAL DAVENPORTOCT. 12, 2016 DELHI — A thrill goes down Lane 12, C Block, Kamalpur every time another working-class family brings home its first air-conditioner. Switched on for a few hours, usually to cool a room where the whole family sleeps, it transforms life in this suffocating concrete labyrinth where the […]
India signs on to do-nothing deal for Paris Climate ‘Theatre’
India is doubling it’s coal use by 2020 and tripling it’s emissions by 2030. That’s what “going green” means. India has ratified the weakest kind of non-reduction, just a promise it will try to “cut emissions intensity“. That big goal is to increase its carbon emissions by slightly less than the rate its population is […]