Posts Tagged ‘coal industry’

[Blog Action Day] What will it take to get rid of coal?

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

Well since today is Blog Action Day, I thought I’d make it up for the fact that I haven’t blogged for a few days now. I’ve been trying very hard to bite my tongue about some of the stupid things both Westminster and Holyrood are planning to do to meet those so-called ambitious targets they’ve set themselves. I’m of course talking about Carbon Capture and Storage / Sequestration (the meaning of the acronym varies apparently).

But before that, some good news that have been popping up in the last few days:

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Thinking about the coal industry

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

I’ve been doing a bit of pondering today and I started feeling quite sorry for the guys in the coal industry.

That’s a bit random you might think, well not really. It’s a well known fact that of all fossil fuels used in the industrialised world, coal is by far the worst of all. As a result, the industry is being constantly attacked by the likes of us who would like to see the world free from those little blocks of pure sun energy captured millions of years ago,

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