Date: 7/02/2013 14:43:15
From: party_pants
ID: 261806
Subject: China to wean itself off coal?

http://www.smh.com.au/business/carbon-economy/time-for-change-china-flags-peak-in-coal-usage-20130206-2dxrv.html#ixzz2KAVeVw4t

China’s decade-long boom in coal-driven heavy industry is about to end as the leadership shifts priorities towards energy conservation, say officials and policy advisers.
The advisers predict China’s coal consumption will peak at only a fraction above current levels after the State Council, or cabinet, last week set an ambitious new total energy use target for the five-year plan ending 2015.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/business/carbon-economy/time-for-change-china-flags-peak-in-coal-usage-20130206-2dxrv.html#ixzz2KBItm68M

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Big implications for the Australian economy if this happens in the next 5 years.

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Date: 7/02/2013 14:47:21
From: Bubblecar
ID: 261807
Subject: re: China to wean itself off coal?

Australia (or at least SA) might be drowning in oil wealth by then.

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Date: 7/02/2013 14:48:06
From: Carmen_Sandiego
ID: 261808
Subject: re: China to wean itself off coal?

party_pants said:

Big implications for the Australian economy if this happens in the next 5 years.

Not sure. As far as i am aware, we have the good stuff they use in steel refining which needs carbon as well as heat.

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Date: 7/02/2013 15:00:48
From: morrie
ID: 261813
Subject: re: China to wean itself off coal?

Reporter: John Garnaut.
Hmmm. I wonder.

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Date: 7/02/2013 16:32:24
From: The_observer
ID: 261849
Subject: re: China to wean itself off coal?

>>>China’s decade-long boom in coal-driven heavy industry is about to end<<<

Pigs Arse

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Date: 7/02/2013 16:35:42
From: poikilotherm
ID: 261850
Subject: re: China to wean itself off coal?

The_observer said:

>>>China’s decade-long boom in coal-driven heavy industry is about to end<<<

Pigs Arse

They do quite like pigs I hear.http://www.smh.com.au/business/chinese-steel-giants-turn-to-scraps-20120313-1uxqi.html

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Date: 7/02/2013 16:50:12
From: The_observer
ID: 261859
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Date: 7/02/2013 16:53:53
From: The_observer
ID: 261862
Subject: re: China to wean itself off coal?

Source: Figures come from the World Resources Institute Report. (Nov 2012)

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Date: 7/02/2013 18:04:30
From: Carmen_Sandiego
ID: 261918
Subject: re: China to wean itself off coal?

http://www.australiancoal.com.au/exports.html

According to that website, Australia’s black coal exports are as follows:

Japan – 115 Mt
China – 42 Mt
Korea – 40 Mt
Taiwan – 26 Mt
Rest of the world – 36 Mt

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Date: 7/02/2013 18:35:15
From: Ian
ID: 261928
Subject: re: China to wean itself off coal?

From first link:

“Unbelievable, Chinese migrants from Bob Hawk years 20K, to explosion 700K (not including 100K already settle here) in just 20 yrs. If China is beacon of the world, why so many Chinese abandon mother ship and left China? More than 30 millions Cantonese Chinese live abroad.

China facade economic growth hidden so many agendas, lands grab from peasants; sent their intellectuals into re-education camps; massive debt borrow by locals counties; imagine there is probably accountant firm auditing China financial health status; probably China is in RED in hundred of Trillions.

China recently stirring nationalist sympathy to divert attentions from their supreme leaders corruptions and discontent among their citizens due to the gap between of the riches and poor; East China Sea and South East China Sea are only tool that manipulates by ONE control party propaganda machines.”

Sound alike is someone is know what is talking bout.

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Date: 7/02/2013 18:37:30
From: Witty Rejoinder
ID: 261930
Subject: re: China to wean itself off coal?

morrie said:


Reporter: John Garnaut.
Hmmm. I wonder.

In case you’re wondering John Garnaut is the son of Ross.

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