6 Major Countries Have Recently Announced Plans To Phase-Out All Coal-Fired Power Plants (electrek.co)

At least 6 major countries, including Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Austria and Finland, have all recently -- several within the past few weeks -- announced the imminent phase-out of all coal-fired power plants. Electrek reports: Earlier this week, Canada, which has already significantly reduced its use of coal to about 7% of its energy generation, announced a phase of the resource by 2030. The country's strong hydropower should keep dominating its energy generation, but the country has also been investing in wind and solar to make up the difference. A week before Canada's announcement, France announced a more aggressive timeline of 2023 for its own phase-out of coal, but it should be more easily achievable since they have already reduced the use of coal to 3% of their electricity generation -- thanks to a strong local nuclear industry. Finland is the latest country to join the group, but it also announced a more aggressive solution of simply banning entirely the use of coal to produce energy by 2030. The country gets about 12% of its electricity from coal, which it has to import. Peter Lund, a researcher at Aalto University and chair of the energy program at the European Academies' Science Advisory Council, told New Scientist: "These moves are important forerunners to enforce the recent positive signals in coal use. The more countries join the coal phase-out club, the better for the climate as this would force the others to follow." As for the U.S., it gets about 33% of its total electricity generation from coal and will likely grow the coal industry rather than phase it out under President-elect Donald Trump.

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Re:The priesthood has spoken

[MightyMartian]

Oh shut up you ignorant fucking moron

Re:"Likley grow" - Bullshit

[msauve]

OTOH, Trump himself "ignores what Trump actually says he will do".

And, "6 major countries, including Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Austria and Finland..." Since when are Finland, Austria, and Holland "major countries?"

Re:"Likley grow" - Bullshit

[BlueStrat]

Believe it or not, we DO get to pick winners...

Fascism-101

I guess Mussolini was just in the wrong place at the wrong time, eh?

And, who is this "we" you speak of? It's not the majority of people and the impoverished who would be facing higher costs to not freeze to death and to afford enough food to not starve. Nobody is asking *them*. It's not being put up in national referendums to be voted on (campaign promises from proven liars don't count), you're just dictating your beliefs and ideology at the point of government guns.

Strat