Emissions soar from UK generators (BBC) {more coal! more coal!}

[eppur_se_muova]

Carbon dioxide emissions from Britain's power stations have grown markedly in recent years, a report has concluded.

Commissioned by the environmental group WWF from consultants IPA, it found that UK power sector emissions rose by nearly 30% between 1999 and 2006.

As gas prices have risen faster than coal, generating companies have used more of the higher carbon fuel.

WWF says that the "dash for gas" of the early 1990s has been replaced by a de facto "roll to coal".
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"This is a disgrace for Britain, and shows that for the past decade the government has talked a good game on climate change while failing dismally to tackle emissions from this highly polluting sector," said Keith Allott, head of climate change at WWF UK.
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6501009.stm

[NickB79]

1. Good thing they shut down those nuclear reactors

And went to renewabl...., hey, wait a second..... :evilgrin:

[Dogmudgeon]

2. Coal IS renewable

It might take 300 million years, but it will be renewed by the massive quantity of dead biota from the Great End-Holocene Die-Off.

--p!