Precisely because of all that bloviating from industry and the campaigns, American journalists should have given more attention to the new CCS coal plant in Germany. Although it’s a continent away, it represents a tangible step toward the technology they’ve been promised. According to www.followthecoalmoney.org, Obama has received just over $17,100 from the coal industry since 2000, compared to McCain’s $51,850. Journalists have done a decent job of covering the coal industry’s influence on the presidential campaigns — USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and The Associated Press are among those that have weighed in. But journalists can always to do more and part of that involves following the technology as well.
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This unproven technology does nothing to stop the enormously destructive operations of coal mining.
Posted by Sally on Wed 17 Sep 2008 at 03:27 PM
Agreed. CCS has nothing to do with the mining of coal, only the processing thereof. In fact, it makes you wonder whether mining will actually increase since CCS burns coal more cleanly, but less efficiently.
Posted by Curtis Brainard on Wed 17 Sep 2008 at 03:46 PM