{"id":542,"date":"2008-04-23T09:15:57","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T09:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/europe-goes-for-coal\/"},"modified":"2017-09-05T17:54:23","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T21:54:23","slug":"europe-goes-for-coal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/europe-goes-for-coal\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe goes for coal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you who think Europe is a green paradise, think again. The <a href=\"com\/articles\/2008\/04\/22\/business\/22coal.php\">International Heral Tribune <\/a> is carrying some alarming news about the use of coal in Europe. It is estimated that 50 coal-fired plants will be built over the next five years, plants that will be in use for the next five decades.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>European power-station owners emphasize that they are making the new coal plants as clean as possible. But critics say that &#8220;clean coal&#8221; is a pipe dream, an oxymoron in terms of the carbon emissions that count most toward climate change. They call the building spree short-sighted.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I would call it a betrayal. How are we supposed to meet carbon reduction targets if we adopt the dirtiest form of fuel? It sounds like madness to me. <\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n<h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li>No Related Posts Found! Go find some...<\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you who think Europe is a green paradise, think again. The International Heral Tribune is carrying some alarming news about the use of coal in Europe. It is estimated that 50 coal-fired plants will be built over the next five years, plants that will be in use for the next five decades. European [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9883,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions\/9883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}