Posts under ‘Coal’

Frank Ching, SCMP - Updated on Dec 23, 2008
As China this month celebrates 30 years of extraordinary growth, it is also keenly aware that it has had to pay a steep environmental price - in terms of the health of its people because of severe pollution of its air, water and land.
Pan Yue, deputy environment […]

Bloomberg in Sydney - Updated on Dec 12, 2008
TRUenergy, the Australian electricity and gas supplier owned by CLP Holdings, said it had A$2 billion (HK$10.25 billion) of proposed investments that hinged on the design of the nation’s emissions-trading system.
The spending on gas-fired power plants would not proceed if the design of the carbon-trading plan meant […]

Eric Ng, SCMP - Updated on Dec 11, 2008
China Guodian Group and Huaneng Power International have received approvals to build coal-fired power plants costing an estimated total of 7.5 billion yuan (HK$8.47 billion), despite concerns of oversupply next year.
China Guodian, the country’s fourth-largest power producer by capacity and parent of mainland-listed GD Power Development, got […]

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 rocky ground […]

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. They […]

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 more […]

Shi Jiangtao - SCMP | Updated on Oct 30, 2008
China’s reliance on coal for economic growth has made it difficult to curb growing greenhouse gas emissions, according to the central government’s first policy statement on climate change.
“Developing the economy and improving people’s lives are imperative tasks currently facing China,” the white paper, issued yesterday, says.
“However, […]

Shi Jiangtao in Beijing - SCMP | Updated on Oct 28, 2008
The environmental and social costs of China’s reliance on coal as an energy source have been grossly underestimated, a joint study by environmentalists and economists says.
For each tonne of coal consumed last year, China paid 150 yuan (HK$170) extra in environmental damage, according to […]

Potentially Lucrative Projects Devoted To Clean, Renewable Energy Languish For Want Of Financing
Eric Ng - SCMP | Updated on Oct 27, 2008
The United States’ property bust and the subsequent global credit crunch have many investors fretting that the mainland’s economic miracle is coming to an end. Yet, amid the gloom and doom, renewable energy, energy […]

Chris Buckley - Reuters | October 22, 2008
BEIJING (Reuters) - China’s greenhouse gas pollution could double or more in two decades says a new Chinese state think-tank study that casts stark light on the industrial giant’s role in stoking global warming.
Beijing has not released recent official data on greenhouse gas from the nation’s fast-growing use […]