By Alex Kleiderman
The Queen (click here) has appeared to suggest she is irritated by people who "talk" but "don't do", ahead of next month's climate change summit.
Her reported remarks were overheard during the opening of the Welsh parliament on Thursday.
The monarch, who is due to attend the UN's COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, said she did not know who was coming to the event.
Prince Charles and Prince William have also spoken of their climate concerns.
Global leaders are meeting in Glasgow between 31 October and 12 November to negotiate a new deal to stall rising global temperatures....
People like US Senator Joe Machin ARE THE PROBLEM. There should be international sanctions against them, including obstruction of trips abroad and the rest. There is no need for Machin to be this difficult. He is power hungry and has no intentions of the USA limiting the use of coal. It is an international problem that needs internatinoal attention. There are limits on what the USA can do with these people.
October 14, 2021
By Alex J. Rouhandeh
Cecil Roberts, (click here) president of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA), told Newsweek on Wednesday that he could not support President Joe Biden's $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation plan with its current goal of achieving 80 percent carbon-free electricity by 2030 and 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2035.
Part of the plan, the Clean Electricity Performance Program (CEPP), consists of a $150 billion program designed to increase the amount of clean energy distributed to consumers by 4 percent each year. Companies that complete this objective would receive financial incentives and those that fail would face financial penalties.
Under this plan, Roberts said, coal-fired power plants could face a succession of closures, as they would likely fail to meet these deadlines. While coal plants could theoretically meet requirements through the process of storing emissions using carbon capture and sequestration, current technology. Roberts said, makes it unfeasible and that he does not expect it to catch up by the time of Biden's proposed deadlines....
It isn't as thoiugh Manchin is carrying out the business of the people of West Virginia either.
By Barnini Chakraborty
Jacob Hannah was born in Kelly Knob, West Virginia. (click here) He is the conservation coordinator for Coalfield Development and believes West Virginia needs to diversify in order to survive.
He was born and raised near the Billion Dollar Coalfield in the southern part of the state. His father worked in the mines, just like his father had before him.
As a child, Hannah saw the economic prosperity that the industry brought to his town. But he was also there for the bad times, when jobs dried up and people were forced out of their homes, away from their families, and the only employment they had known. He watched in horror as vibrant towns turned into hollowed-out shells.
"Everything was built to serve this one industry," he told the Washington Examin.er. "When the jobs went, everything else collapsed."...
He was born and raised near the Billion Dollar Coalfield in the southern part of the state. His father worked in the mines, just like his father had before him.
As a child, Hannah saw the economic prosperity that the industry brought to his town. But he was also there for the bad times, when jobs dried up and people were forced out of their homes, away from their families, and the only employment they had known. He watched in horror as vibrant towns turned into hollowed-out shells.
"Everything was built to serve this one industry," he told the Washington Examin.er. "When the jobs went, everything else collapsed."...
President Biden needs to address the needs of the people of West Virginia. He can look into their future and find opportunity for them. Evidently, Machin is not capable.
This edition of "PBS News Hour" is chocked full of Democratic issues, including the very ineffective fuel availablity and cost and the energy crisis. Let's face it who wants energy from petroleum anymore? It is hideous to try and live a Middle Class life when the costs of fueling up an internal combustion engine changes from day to day. That won't hapen with electric vehicles. Energy costs to consumers will stabilize and be very reliable. Electric Vehicles transportation costs won't destroy vacations either.
