Analysis reveals that the amount allocated to large infrastructure projects by Beijing has doubled this year, with airports and high-speed rail lines among 21 schemes allocated a total of £83.9 billion.
Included in the new allocations is funding for 17 new coal mines across China, despite Beijing’s pledges to reduce reliance on the power source.
Seven mines were approved last year and, between 2017 and 2018, China added 194 million tonnes of coal mining capacity with the total number of mines reaching more than 3,000.
China, the world’s biggest coal consumer, has vowed to cap carbon emissions by 2030, although it has stopped short of the “net-zero” emissions target by 2050 pledged by the European Union.
The move to increase coal production comes as China is expected to announce its five-year energy strategy.
The country is in the sixth year of its “war on pollution” to reverse the damage done by decades of industrial growth that has left many cities blanketed in smog.
In a speech to China’s National Energy Commission, Li Keqiang, the premier, suggested Beijing was once again turning towards coal, despite government scientists conceding it was the “most dirty energy”.
“Given our country’s bounty of coal resources . . . [we should] promote the safe, green extraction of coal and development of clean and efficient coal,” Mr. Li said, according to reports.
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China’s 2019 Coal Imports Set To Rise More Than 10%
China, the world’s top coal buyer, is on track to boost imports of the fuel by more than 10% this year, traders and analysts said on Tuesday, countering earlier expectations that shipments would be capped by Beijing at the same level as 2018.
China’s coal imports have already surged 9.5% in the first nine months of 2019 to 250.57 million tonnes, customs data shows, and at least 18.84 million tonnes of seaborne coal are due to arrive this month, according to vessel-tracking and port data compiled by Refinitiv.
With China typically bringing in about 7 million tonnes more a month on trucks and trains from Mongolia and Russia, total volumes are likely to reach 276 million tonnes well before the end of the year.
Last year’s total was 281.23 million tonnes.
h/t The GWPF
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I live in the small suburb of Saginaw TX (just North of Fort Worth), that has a major rail crossroads. At least once a day there are approximately 100 loaded coal rail cars and 100 loaded oil tanker cars that pass through going South. In the evening, the empties go back North. We have dozens of coal fired electric generation plants in North Texas that have been upgraded for coal. The oil tankers are going to the coastal refineries. Yet we have clean air.
Why isn’t Greta and climate barbie over ther right now, rioting and protesting to shut down Communis China’s economy? Are they afraid of disappearing?
Apology, her internal organs
Nothing wrong with your first version. She’s an old a – hole.
I would like to see the Traitor-‘Climatologist’ “Hanoi Jane” Fonda go to China and pull her stupid fake climate protests there! I undestand that their police are a lot ‘nicer’ than America cops when it comes to global warming protests.
It wouldn’t be long before she winds up in jail, and if we are lucky, they would harvest her interanal organs to save the lives of the rich people flocking there for the cheap organ parts available…
Her body parts are so OLD and worn that her transplanted organs would lead to the quick demise of those receiving them and THAT would contribute to a ‘greener’ world by reducing the number of people.
In that way, she could really help the world global warming cause by going to China and protesting!
The article’s title says that China has made a U turn on its coal policy. This is not true. They have never intended to control carbon dioxide emission. They have simply played along with the international politics for their own advantage. The “peak emissions by 2030” promise may have fooled people line Obama, but not the climate realists.
I’m not an economist but some basic concepts are easy to understand. It cost so much to open a coal mine or build a coal fire power plant, you can bet they are going to be used for a long time to get the return on investment. That means using them beyond 2030.
For the sake of their people I hope China’s “war on pollution” is successful. This isn’t the carbon dioxide which is not a pollutant, but the fine particles that make up their smog.
British Columbia ships about 40 million tonnes to Asia annually. I’m okay with that, but our premier of the province doesn’t want to ship our oil to Asian ports but he is quite willing to ship coal. Some of this coal comes from our neighbours, the USA, actually the Powder River Basin in Wyoming, a massive coal deposit. I’m okay with that as well. The thing is that we in BC are charged a carbon for auto fuel, marine fuel, aviation fuel, home heating oil and natural gas and propane. Our hypocrite premier ships all of this coal and charges us carbon tax. And get this, there are plans to double our capacity of our exports of coal from BC to 80 million tonnes. This is the largest demonstration of hypocrisy one will ever witness. What an idiot!
China uses technology to advance their growth. They will not stand on their own foot…
And the Liberals and Eco-Freaks were calling America the worlds #1 Polluter but behold its China the Model Country Liberals and the Eco-Freaks have been pushing because they ride bicycles or use foot operated water pumps Look the Dragon is putting out Pollution what you going to do Greenpeace go over there and block their coal shipments like you always do? Greenpeace is for Idiots
British Columbia ships about 40 million tonnes to Asia annually. I’m okay with that, but our premier of the province doesn’t want to ship our oil to Asian ports but he is quite willing to ship coal. Some of this coal comes from our neighbours, the USA, actually the Powder River Basin in Wyoming, a massive coal deposit. I’m okay with that as well. The thing is that we in BC are charged a carbon for auto fuel, marine fuel, aviation fuel, home heating oil and natural gas and propane. Our hypocrite premier ships all of this coal and charges us carbon tax. And get this, there are plans to double our capacity of our exports of coal from BC to 80 million tonnes. This is the largest demonstration of hypocrisy one will ever witness. What an idiot!