Environmental stories tagged with: coal
The sticky problem of coal
Monday, 27th April 2009, 6:05 pm
Four activists from environmental action group Climate Rush glued themselves around a statue in the lobby of the Houses of Parliament today. Once fixed they spoke about the impacts of climate change, to the surprise of MPs, civil servants and tourists.
 Green funding for dirty power stations criticisedWednesday, 4th March 2009, 11:35 am
The World Development Movement has criticised a UK government plan to put almost £400 million of 'green' aid designed to assist developing countries low carbon development into a World Bank fund that will subsidise new dirty coal power plants.
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 New biomass charcoal heater: A "new era" of efficiency and sustainabilityWednesday, 11th February 2009, 3:37 pm
Millions of homes in rural areas of Far Eastern countries are heated by charcoal burned on small, portable grills. Scientists in Japan are now reporting development of an improved "biomass charcoal combustion heater" that they say could open a new era in sustainable and ultra-high efficiency home heating.
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Coal-Fired Power Station Given Go-AheadThursday, 3rd January 2008, 1:38 pm
Medway Council's Development Control Committee has voted to raise no objection to planning permission being granted for the construction of two coal-fired electricity generating units at Kingsnorth, on the Hoo Peninsula, by E.on UK plc.
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 Renewable Energy Cheaper than CoalTuesday, 27th November 2007, 8:01 pm
Google has announced a new strategic initiative to develop electricity from renewable energy sources that will be cheaper than electricity produced from coal.
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UK-China Clean Coal Initiative Launched
Tuesday, 20th November 2007, 5:37 pm
A joint UK-China initiative on producing energy from coal with low carbon dioxide emissions was launched in Beijing today.
Want to Stop Global Warming? Stop Coal
Wednesday, 3rd October 2007, 2:06 pm
This is the conclusion of Architecture 2030 who delivered its 'silver bullet' for solving the global warming crisis in a full-page ad in The New York Times. According to Edward Mazria, founder of Architecture 2030, the only way to stop global warming is to stop coal.
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