By Heather du Plessis-Allan: Wokesters are learning the hard way about coal usage
Publish Date
Fri, 11 Jun 2021, 4:57PM
Do you know what I’m loving today?
The wokesters learning the hard way the meaning of the phrase ‘unintended consequences’.
Turns out we are burning coal at a rate we haven’t seen in a long time.
In just the first three months of the year we burned more coal than in the whole of 2016 and 2017 combined.
That was summer, people.
Imagine what it’s going to be like when we see the coal use numbers for winter.
Because we are burning right now like there’s no tomorrow because we are so short on water in the hydro lakes even Methanex has been asked to cut production to keep our lights on.
Any of those greenies regret the gas ban now?
Because gas burns at half the rate of greenhouse gas emissions that coal burns at.
And coal ain’t going nowhere.
As long as we rely on wind and rain for power… we will always need coal or gas on the days that wind and rain is low.
Ah, but we’re going to run out of gas soon so… coal it is.
And by the way… any of those greenies regret that we’re not using New Zealand coal at Huntly?
Because we are importing coal at a rate of 1.1 million tonnes last year.
If we were using New Zealand coal… you’d only have to get it out of the ground, ship up the country to Huntly and have a relatively small carbon footprint.
Instead… we’re shipping it in from Indonesia… which means huge emissions even getting it here
Before we even light it.
So… I hope the greenies are still enjoying their gas ban and the fact we don’t mine much coal nowadays.
Because both of things mean we’re hurting the planet more than we otherwise would’ve done
Unintended consequences, eh?
Don’t say we didn’t warn you.
My comments: By Andy Loader
Interesting.
Here are our politicians shutting down coal fired plants throughout NZ to save the planet!!!
Hmmm – we’re saving the planet – Yeah Right!
Here’s a small sample of how many coal plants there are in the world today.
The EU has 468 plants building 27 more for a total of 495
Turkey has 56 plants building 93 more total 149
South Africa has 79 building 24 more total 103
India has 589 building 446 more total 1036
Philippines has 19 building 60 more total 79
South Korea has 58 building 26 more total 84
Japan has 90 building 45 more total 135
China has 2363 building 1171 more total 3534
We need to come to grips with reality. Stopping coal fired power stations and banning any further oil and gas exploration is not helping save the planet it is in fact making it worse when you factor in the transportation of alternative fuels such as the coal imported from Indonesia.