Pact Signed for Prototype of Coal Plant

[Che_Nuevara]

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MONTREAL, Dec. 6 (Printed Dec. 7) - Under pressure from other industrialized countries at talks here on global warming, the Bush administration announced on Tuesday that it had signed an agreement with a coalition of energy companies to build a prototype coal-burning power plant with no emissions.

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Environmental advocates at the talks criticized the announcement, saying it was intended to distract from continuing efforts by the American delegation to block discussion of new international commitments to cut emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases that scientists link to global warming.

"You are watching 163 nations do an elaborate dance to try to make progress when the United States is sitting in the middle of the road trying to obstruct," said Alden Meyer, a representative of the Union of Concerned Scientists, a group that has long criticized the Bush administration's climate approach.

"It's getting to be like Charlie Brown with Lucy holding that football," he said. "Every time, at the last minute, the U.S. pulls it away."
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Full story: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/07/national/07climate.html

[Tesha]

1. "Ayeah, it jus' produces four bazillion gallons of seltzer each day!" (NT)

[eppur_se_muova]

2. NO emissions? You mean nitric oxide...lots of it...

Seriously, I think they mean "NO POLLUTANTS"...and CO2 is not classed as a pollutant! So even if this plant burns coal as cleanly as is possible even in theory, it's still going to produce tons of CO2, the 800-lb gorilla of greenhouse gases. Just another example of Bu$h**Co's twisting of definitions.