China’s state-run Global Times boasted on Monday – day seven of the COP26 climate conference in Scotland – that coal output has reached “the highest level in recent years,” so China’s vast array of carbon-spewing coal-fired power plants can “ensure energy supply security and residential heating during the winter.”
China, the world’s worst polluter by far, built three times as many coal plants as all other nations combined in 2020. When power shortages and rolling blackouts began hitting China’s industrial centers in the fall of 2021, the Chinese government ordered an “all-out” campaign to “produce as much coal as possible” from both domestic mines and foreign suppliers.
According to the Global Times, that effort has been successful:
From November 1-5, the average daily dispatch of coal reached 11.66 million tons, an increase of more than 1.2 million tons from the end of September, as coal mines have been gradually put into operation, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) said on Monday.
The thermal coal supply has also continued to increase, and the rebound of coal inventories at power plants has been accelerated. Since early November, the average daily supply of coal at power plants has hit 7.74 million tons and coal inventories have reached 1.6 million tons, according to the NDRC.
On November 6, the stock of coal reserves across the country’s power plants exceeded 117 million tons, an increase of about 40 million tons compared with the end of September.
October saw China importing 26.943 million tons of coal, a 96 percent increase over the previous year. Combined with the surge of domestic output, the supply of coal grew large enough to bring prices down, according to the NDRC.
“Analysts said that officials’ ability to quickly stabilize coal supplies as well as prices underscored the country’s capabilities in dealing with emergencies and its determination to put livelihood at front and center,” the Global Times applauded.
Make them PAY for Climate Change !!!! Not America
They mine and burn more, we are forced to mine and burn less, with stringent restrictions on stack emissions. Our current “leaders” are okay with that. They are plotting for and engaging in our demise.
Until China addresses this why should Americas pay 25% more to be green when it makes no difference in the end as long as China and India are also not playing along.
Because sleepy Joe sucks up to them and screws Americans.
Coal remains a naturally made resource from mom earth. Yet all our efforts are now going to making electricity…making batteries to make electricity. Without electricity we r in the dark. Burn coal, you have light.
We r what…245 years as a nation. Infancy in most aspects. If we can make a man made invisible airborn chems that kill, why cant our greatest brains…the worlds greatest brains come up with tech that cleanly burns coal??
Nope, we are more interested in making better phones, better tvs, etc.
Im going to throw more wood on the fire, cuz wood is a natural resource and the light and heat are FREE!!!!