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Endangered Regent Honeyeater breeding area is site of planned Coal-fired Power Plant (1 Viewer)

Chosun Juan

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Australia - Aboriginal
https://www.theguardian.com/environ...nt-is-endangered-birds-only-nsw-breeding-area

"The site flagged for a 2,000 megawatt coal-fired power plant in the New South Wales Hunter region was the only breeding site in the state last year for the regent honeyeater, a critically endangered bird whose plight has blocked previous development plans.

Guardian Australia revealed yesterday that an agreement had been struck between the China Energy Engineering Corporation, Hong Kong-based Kaisun Holdings and a tiny Australian company, Cavcorp, to build a new coal plant."







Chosun :gh:
 
https://www.theguardian.com/environ...nt-is-endangered-birds-only-nsw-breeding-area

"The site flagged for a 2,000 megawatt coal-fired power plant in the New South Wales Hunter region was the only breeding site in the state last year for the regent honeyeater, a critically endangered bird whose plight has blocked previous development plans.

Guardian Australia revealed yesterday that an agreement had been struck between the China Energy Engineering Corporation, Hong Kong-based Kaisun Holdings and a tiny Australian company, Cavcorp, to build a new coal plant."


Chosun :gh:

The Honeyeater aside, who is still building coal fired power stations in the 21st Century!
 
The Honeyeater aside, who is still building coal fired power stations in the 21st Century!
The current investments are locked in for the remaining life of plants ~ 30 years or so. While it is true that in the commercial space (in this country anyway) that the risks associated with new coal-fired power plants make them excessively risky, hence prohibitively expensive for banks, investment, and pension funds to finance, this is a different kettle of fish.

There are developing countries in the world, China, India etc that are building the so called high efficiency plants (using high grade coal). That's the inherent danger in this proposal - it's not a purely commercial decision, it's a geopolitical one. Chinese companies are state actors.

So effectively we have a hostile (let's not p*ssyfoot around the truth - what with it's invasion and annexation of Tibet, threats to do the same in Taiwan, bullying, politically, and cyberspace, meddling/ hacking, expansionist and coercive regime, militarisating annexed [according to international rulings] islands in the South China sea, along with man-made military installations) foreign power, some overseas financial puppets, and one man band local shelf companies collaborating.

By securing local demand for coal, it secures the mining industry in Australia, and hence secures it's own supply chain. Ding ding !

They don't give a flying f*** about market level ROI, or pushing an endangered species over the brink ..... :-C :storm:




Chosun :gh:
 
We have a similar situation in the UK with Hinkley Point (not Regent Honeyeaters!) power station where the Chinese have accepted a contract to install a nuclear reactor but are insistent on using their own tech. There have been protests from various quarters regarding our potential energy security, especially in light of the Huawai sitiuation. Imagine if the Chinese installed a 'back door' and during any future hostilities, they could just switch us off!

AFAIK, the whole project is on hold as the French company who were building it, EDF, were demanding future energy prices at exorbitant rates, as if we're not already screwed enough for energy in the UK.

Wiki

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinkley_Point_C_nuclear_power_station
 
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