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Japan’s New Coal Plants Threaten Emission Cuts, Group Says
New coal power projects planned for Japan could emit carbon dioxide equal to about a 10th of the country’s total emissions, an environmental group said in a statement Thursday.
Japan has 43 coal power projects either under construction or planned, representing combined capacity of 21,200 megawatts, according to a statement from the Kyoto-based Kiko Network.
“These projects, which may still be operating in 2050, run counter to Japan’s efforts to tackle climate change and should be quickly reviewed or stopped,” the group said.
Emissions from the new projects would total 127 million metric tons, equivalent to 10 percent of Japan’s total greenhouse gas emissions in 1990, the group said. The year 1990 was established as the year from which to measure reductions in emissions under the Kyoto Protocol, the only international treaty limiting greenhouse gases.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-09/japan-s-new-coal-plants-threaten-emission-cuts-group-says
Japan has 43 coal power projects either under construction or planned, representing combined capacity of 21,200 megawatts, according to a statement from the Kyoto-based Kiko Network.
“These projects, which may still be operating in 2050, run counter to Japan’s efforts to tackle climate change and should be quickly reviewed or stopped,” the group said.
Emissions from the new projects would total 127 million metric tons, equivalent to 10 percent of Japan’s total greenhouse gas emissions in 1990, the group said. The year 1990 was established as the year from which to measure reductions in emissions under the Kyoto Protocol, the only international treaty limiting greenhouse gases.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-09/japan-s-new-coal-plants-threaten-emission-cuts-group-says
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And a pony. 
Not forgetting, of course, that the coal plants will also be producing radioactive pollution
and freely releasing it into the atmosphere, soil & groundwater ... all without a single word
of condemnation (or a penny of compensation for that matter) ... because that's what coal
plants do all around the world, every minute of every day, and no-one gives a shit because
that is obviously "a different kind of radiation" (to quote a banned nutcase from the past) ...
