Hi Mike >China better do something...the country is floating in coal fired pollution. > Keith, I've meant to ask...how does Japan, especially where you live, >fare with all the smoke coming from China? Mike DuPree
How indeed, I've never heard it discussed here but maybe I just missed it. Maybe they pay it back when the wind blows the other way with dioxin drift from all the garbage incinerators here in Japan. The Japanese are consumers of China's coal energy via the large amount of manufacturing they do in China, for the domestic Japanese market as well as others. Judging from their generally cavalier view of basic labour rights in China or rather the lack of them and no doubt of the environment too, I guess their main concern is just as long as it's cheap. But that's not saying anything in particular about Japan and Japanese, nor China and Chinese for that matter, just normal business-as-usual corporate behaviour as decreed by the bottom-line. IMHO. After all, let alone the air we all breathe, high-ranked corporate slaves can externalise toxic wastes onto their very own family's dinner plates and see it as Good: Fear in the fields Part I http://www.crcwater.org/issues/fertwaste7397.html Fear in the fields Part II http://www.crcwater.org/issues/fertwaste7497.html "In addition, the report said the industry sent farms and fertilizer companies chemicals which they know cause cancer and reproductive problems. Those included 6.2 million pounds of lead compounds, 1.3 million pounds of chromium compounds, 233,000 pounds of cadmium compounds, 212,000 pounds of nickel compounds, 16,000 pounds of mercury compounds and 223 pounds of arsenic compounds. Dioxins weren't measured." "Twenty-nine tested fertilizers contained twenty-two toxic heavy metals. These metals are linked to either ecological or human health hazards. Most noticeable is the wide array of toxic metals that exist in fertilizers." "In Oklahoma, a uranium processing plant disposed of low-level radioactive waste by spraying ten million gallons a year of the liquid toxic material on Bermuda grass which was used as grazing land. Near the site a frog with nine legs was found and a two-nosed calf was born. There were 124 reported cases of cancer and birth defects near the toxic fields." But it saves money. Regards Keith >----- Original Message ----- >From: "AltEnergyNetwork" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <biofuel@sustainablelists.org> >Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 4:06 PM >Subject: [Biofuel] China will invest 1.5 trillion yuan (US$189 billion) >inalt energy > > > > > > $189 BILLION investment in renewable energy. I guess we would have to > > be dreaming in 3d technicolor to see that type of large investment in > > alt energy. Another example of other countries leaving the U.S. in > > the dust and falling further behind the rest of the world, > > > > regards > > tallex > > > > China will invest 1.5 trillion yuan (US$189 billion) to increase the > > ratio of renewable energy consumption > > > > http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2006-10/30/content_719770.htm _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
