U.S. coal demand quietly rebounds
A double standard? Of course it is. Day after day, week after week, month after month, the mainstream media churns out stories about growing oilsands carbon emissions, and the allegedly dire threat to the planet posed by TransCanada`s long-proposed, long-delayed Keystone XL pipeline.
Yet the global coal industry, which spews exponentially more carbon emissions into the atmosphere than the oilsands ever will, is largely ignored. I`ve never been able to make sense of this. If, as the noisy green lobby argues, growing man-made carbon emissions are indeed such a grave threat to the sustainability of human civilization, then the major source of that threat - coal ` should be their number one target. But it`s not.
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