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Sunday, August 29, 2010

More (coal) smoke screen












"A Wellington think tank claims that the proposed lignite-to-urea fertilizer plant by the government coal miner, Solid Energy, is expected to get more than $500 million subsidies over the first 20 years of its carbon debt."

"The $1.4 billion plant collectively developed by farmer-owned fertilizer company Ravensdown and Solid Energy will be the second-biggest emitter of greenhouse gases after the coal-fired Huntly power station.:"

"CEO Conor English said: "Our information is that the plant would be carbon compliant from day one, and logic tells you that when you are producing the product locally it must be better than producing it on the other side of the world and shipping it to New Zealand."

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(Hat-tip treesoftomorrow)

2 comments:

Southernrata said...

That English guy, is he related to...?

robertguyton said...

..all of the other English bros; National's Bill, Fed Farmer's Hamish, goodness knows how many more there are. A bit like the siblings of Nick Smith, the brother that had run-ins with Ecan before Ecan was ...canned.
Hmmmm.....