Burn coal and save the environment?
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Old King Coal has had and continues to have a very bad press (and a very bad press has he!).
However, in a provocative lecture at the University of Leicester, Professor Paul L Younger of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne will argue that a new approach to coal exploitation probably represents the worlds last and best chance of bridging the gulf to a genuinely low carbon future.
Professor Younger a hydrogeochemical engineer with decades of experience in the mining and energy sectors commented: The protestors cluster around Kingsnorth and Drax power stations; opencast developments that are relatively modest compared to those previously undertaken in Britain arouse storms of controversy; and the handful of remaining deep mines struggle to expand even when market prices for coal reach historic heights. So isnt Old King Coal dead and buried? And isnt it a case of good riddance?/p>
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Wednesday 18 March, 2009 09:40 AM |
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