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Denmark Plans To Be Coal-Free In 10 Years

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday October 30, 2014 @04:30PM from the cleaning-the-system dept.

merbs writes "Earlier this year, Denmark's leadership announced that the nation would run entirely on renewable power by 2050. Wind, solar, and biomass would be ramped up while coal and gas are phased out. Now Denmark has gone even further, and plans to end coal by 2025.

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Re:So, they will become coal-free? by jonwil · 2014-10-30 17:24 · Score: 0, Troll

Except in Australia where our government continues to do things designed to benefit the coal industry (those extracting coal as chunks of rock, those extracting the gas trapped with the coal and those who want to gasify the coal whilst its still in the ground and extract the results) at the expense of the planet.