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PETITION, SOMEONE! UK Government Needs to Take Action Against Coal-Fired Plants

Environment  (tags: climate, climatechange, climate-change, CO2emissions, energy, environment, greenhousegases, government, globalwarming, globalwarming )

Affan
- 43 days ago - carbonoffsetsdaily.com
The Environmental Audit Committee has released a report warning the British government that unless it takes strict action against coal-fired power plants, it will not be able to meet its CO2 emission targets. The report stressed the need to get rid of ...
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Affan Laghari (27)
Wednesday July 23, 2008, 2:22 pm
I am relatively new here and don't have many connections here. And I have never made a petition. This issue IS important.

The British government has taken many good steps and Britain is regarded as one of the leading nations in the fight against global warming.

But if they plan to have unsafe coal-fired plants at a time when Australia and the US are stressing on carbon capture and storage, this is serious.

 

Affan Laghari (27)
Wednesday July 23, 2008, 2:43 pm
If the British government goes forward with coal-powered plants without ensuring carbon capture and storage, then Australia and the USA will also not care about this. And China and India. So we will have all major countries with coal-fired plants. Where shall we Environmentalists go? To Mars?
 
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