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Japanese Firms Scrap Plan For Coal Fired Power Plant
Tokyo, Japan (AFP) Feb 28, 2006 Japan's Toshiba and financial services group Orix have scrapped a plan to build a major coal-fired power plant amid concern over greenhouse gas emissions, winning praise from the government Tuesday. Sigma Power Yamaguchi has withdrawn its procedure report on environmental assessments that was earlier submitted to the trade ministry. The decision stemmed from "slowing power demand, price drops of electricity, spikes in coal fuel prices and growing concern over the global environment," the two partner firms said in a statement late Monday. Environment Minister Yuriko Koike hailed the decision. "We regard this as a result of Sigma Power's taking growing awareness of the global environment into consideration," she told reporters. It was the first time in Japan that a plan for a thermal power plant was abolished due to concern over global warming. The plant, which was to be constructed in Ube, in the southwest of the main island Honshu, had been scheduled to come on line in January 2009. Tokyo is desperate to respect the Kyoto Protocol, which was reached in 1999 in Japan's ancient capital and came into force in February last year. The pact requires Japan to cut greenhouse gas emissions six percent by 2012 from the 1990 level, but the trade ministry said last year that many Japanese industry sectors risk failing to meet their self-imposed targets to meet Kyoto.
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Poop Power Being Sniffed Out In San Francisco
San Francisco CA (AFP) Feb 22, 2006The US city renowned for its 1960s anti-war "flower power" is exploring a more malodorous future - that of poop power. San Francisco city officials have directed their contracted trash-handling company to devise a system of turning pet droppings into methane gas that could be used as fuel for home heating, electricity generation or other needs. |
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