From Reuters, April 12:
China plans to accelerate the approval of new coal mines and fast track the construction of already approved mines to support its baseload energy supply during demand spikes, Liang Changxin, an official from the National Energy Administration (NEA), said on Wednesday.
Peak energy demand is expected to exceed 1.36 billion kilowatts this summer, representing a "significant increase on last year", Liang added....
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We've been tracking China's profligate use of coal and their lying-without-compunction response when confronted, for a long, long time.
Some of the more recent posts (they go back years):
China burns more than half of the world's coal. In fact, just the inextinguishable fires that burn in China's coal mines account for 1 - 3% of the world's CO2 emissions. We've been doing this so long it has almost a running joke. From April 20, 2022:
Have I mentioned that China has been lying about their climate goals and decarbonization efforts for 25 years?
It wouldn't be worth commenting on except for the fact China burns quite a bit of coal.
"IEA urges India and China to put climate pledges into action as coal power generation reaches record levels"
December 14, 2021
China Is Now Backtracking On All Those Nice Global Warming Promises They Made At COP26
....China is not just the largest burner of coal but it burns more coal than the rest of the world combined, and they have burned more coal than the rest of the world combined since at least 2014 and probably longer.....
July 1, 2021:
Let's Get This Straight: China Has No Intention Of Giving Up Coal
And dozens, maybe hundreds more.
Here are two that work best when taken together:
August 2022: Europe Forsakes Russian Coal...
....for Colombian, Australian, South African, Kentuckian, Canadian, Indonesian....September 2022: "China urges Europe to take positive steps on climate change"
