Apparently the coal guys didn't get the memo.
Reuters (6/3/21) reports: "The world's coal producers are currently planning as many as 432 new mine projects with 2.28 billion tonnes of annual output capacity, research published on Thursday showed, putting targets for slowing global climate change at risk. China, Australia, India and Russia account for more than three quarters of the new projects, according to a study by U.S. think-tank Global Energy Monitor. China alone is now building another 452 million tonnes of annual production capacity, it said. 'While the IEA (International Energy Agency) has just called for a giant leap toward net zero emissions, coal producers' plans to expand capacity 30% by 2030 would be a leap backward,' said Ryan Driskell Tate, Global Energy Monitor research analyst and lead author of the report. The report said four Chinese provinces and regions alone - Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Shaanxi and Shanxi - account for nearly a quarter of all the proposed new coal mine capacity. China has pledged to bring its emissions to a peak by 2030 and to net zero by 2060. President Xi Jinping said earlier this year that the country would start to cut coal production, but not until 2026."
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"State legislators should not mandate the use of renewable sources in electricity generation, and should not make any attempt at total electrification, as doing so would be incredibly unpopular, have a minimal effect on the environment while simultaneously being extremely expensive, and most of the burden of this shift would fall directly on those lower-income families who could least afford it."
– Tim Benson, Heartland Institute
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