Wake up America! Asian Development Bank Drops "Clean Coal"

[kgrandia]

Not even the Asian Development Bank is buying the "clean coal" PR spin.

A small, but symbolic victory against the Clean Coal marketing efforts.

Last week at the Asian Development Bank's (ADB) annual Asia Clean Energy Forum the ADB passed a motion to drop the use of the term "clean coal."


At the event, ADB Vice President Bindu Lohani proclaimed:
“Let us stop using clean coal or cleaner coal and just call it what it is - more efficient coal.”

While it great to see an organization as large and influential as the ADB admitting that the term "clean coal" incorrectly describes the dirtiest energy source in the world it is little more than a symbolic step with little in realworld ramifications.

As Renato Redentor Constantino, Executive Director, of the NGO Forum on ADB writes on the Bangla Praxis blog:
"Unfortunately, however important the step, correctionary labeling is all that the ADB’s ACEF has done thus far. Since 2006, three ACEF annual events have by now come and gone and none of the events, whether singly or cumulatively, have made developing Asia feel more secure or safe against the anticipated consequences of blind, fossil-fueled economic growth."

[2rth2pwr]

1. Develop and Deploy Clean Coal Technology: Obama will significantly increase the resources devoted

to the commercialization and deployment of low-carbon coal technologies. Obama will consider whatever policy tools are necessary, including standards that ban new traditional coal facilities, to ensure that we move quickly to commercialize and deploy low carbon coal technology.

http://www.barackobama.com/issues/energy/

[LongTomH]

2. "Low-Carbon Coal"? Helllllllooooo, brain stem!

Coal is carbon. Nearly 100%. The small percentage that isn't carbon is sulfur or other nasties that end in the air or in the sludge produced by power plant scrubbers. Disposal of that sludge is an issue rivaling nuclear waste.

"Low-Carbon Coal" is an even dumber PR slogan than "Clean Coal."

Look, I'm pro-Obama too! But, like Prof.Ernest Partridge at the Crisis Papers, I think we need to educate this young man on some major environmental issues.

[greenman3610]

3. "standards that ban new traditional coal facilities'

works for me.
It may be politically inevitable that they
throw some money at carbon sequestration.