Underground coal fires are blazing out of control on the mainland, contributing greatly to the world’s greenhouse gas emissions Tim Johnson – SCMP | Updated on Nov 17, 2008 The barren hillsides give a hint of the inferno underfoot. White smoke billows from cracks in the earth, venting a sulfurous rotten smell into the air. The [...]
Posts from ‘November, 2008’
Seven Power Plants To Be Fined For Not Using Sulphur Filters
SCMP | 15th Nov 2008 Seven power plants, including ones operated by China Datang Group, Shenzhen Energy Group, China Power (SEHK: 2380) Investment Group, China Guodian Group and China Huadian Group, were found by the Ministry of Environmental Protection to have failed to turn on their desulphurisation equipment in certain periods last year as required. [...]
Green Investment Makes Business Sense
Lau Nai-keung, SCMP – Nov 14, 2008 In an interview immediately after his US presidential election victory, Barack Obama listed four priorities for his administration. The first one is, of course, the economy, then energy, health care and the environment. To him, directing more resources away from oil dependency and saving the environment are good [...]
China’s Hydro Potential And UHV Transmission: John Kemp
John Kemp, Reuters – Wednesday November 12 2008 –John Kemp is a Reuters columnist. The opinions expressed are his own– LONDON (Reuters) – China has two related (but somewhat distinct) power problems: (1) The country is struggling to generate enough power overall as price controls encourage wasteful use of cheap electricity. China is unable to [...]
Beijing Defends Energy Policy After Scathing Report
Agence France-Presse in Beijing | Updated on Oct 28, 2008 Beijing on Tuesday defended its energy policy a day after three influential green organisations criticised its dependence on coal. “The Chinese government attaches great importance to the development and exploration of clean energy,” foreign ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu told reporters. “It has been making great [...]
Power Producers Fined For Air Pollution By Coal-fired Plants
Bloomberg | 6th Nov 08 Four of the mainland’s five biggest power producers, including China Datang Corp, were fined for emitting excessive amounts of sulphur dioxide last year, the government said. Seven coal-fired power plants operated by companies including Datang, China Guodian Corp, China Huadian Corp, China Power Investment Corp and Shenzhen Energy Group released [...]
Energy Law Shows Way To Combat Global Warming
David Chan – SCMP | Updated on Nov 05, 2008 On October 1, National Day, an important piece of legislation known as the Civil Energy Act came into effect. The law has six chapters and 45 articles detailing the country’s vision of how to deal with the effect of global warming. There are chapters on [...]