A Washington Post article, May 14,2007, reports that the nation's rural electric cooperatives, which get 80 % of their electricity from coal, plan to spend $ 35 billion to build conventional coal plants over the next 10 years and do it with cheap government loans. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
The world, including China, India and other developing nations, needs affordable clean technologies now to avoid the lock - in of massive carbon emissions from conventional coal plants. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
Environment Minister Jim Prentice has said that any new coal plants will include CCS technology and old conventional coal plants will be phased out. (news.mongabay.com)