Solid Energy trumpets its environmental performance
Yesterday Solid Energy was complaining that snails and associated protests had cost it millions of dollars. Today it is celebrating it’s greenness by talking about the snails it is saving and how it’s carbon emissions were less that its offsets last year (probably thanks in part to protests by the Save Happy Valley crew which cut Solid Energy’s emissions by 200,000 tonnes of coal). But I’ll be looking forward to the snail movie it is making - I reckon it might join this list of great films.
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Someone just pointed out to me In 2007 Solid Energy sold 4.8 million tonnes of coal. Burnt, this will release about 10 million tonnes of Co2 - that’s equivalent to more than a tenth of NZ’s total emissions.
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March 27th, 2008 at 8:35 pm
no wonder solid energy isn’t making a profit, if it is busy making snail PR films and spending money on spies. wonder what their Thompson and Clark bill was?
$50,000 on a snail propaganda piece.
Wonder if Don Elder is the main hero.. and who the villains are…?
Well they do have the climate skeptic David Bellamy as one of the PR celebrities for Waikato mine sites. Solid Energy the cleanest coal merchants in New Zealand… yeah right
March 28th, 2008 at 12:32 am
CO2 is a food, lets burn more.
March 28th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
GW Denier - lets see you eat it!
It is actually a waste product of metabolism,
Hold your breath and let it build up in your body, this will cause your blood acidity to rise - much like what is happening in the ocean, doesn’t feel so good aye!
I’m probably wasting my time, the fact that you’re calling yourself GW Denier should alert me to your profound ignorance - go do a bit of research and come back when you have something substansial to write.
March 28th, 2008 at 10:29 pm
Well it’s a food for plants, innit. It’s just that plants can only absorb so much and grow so fast. Increasing temperatures and more droughts lower plant uptake of CO2 as plants breathe in less to conserve water. Same with the oceans, they’ve juuust about stopped absorbing CO2…
March 28th, 2008 at 10:32 pm
Take a look at http://www.nzclimatescience.org/ and do the global warming test in the top RH corner of the web page.
Take a look at it GW Denier and ask yourself why they use loaded questions and even make claims that conflict with the evidence they use?
In 2004 David Bellamy said that glaciers were advancing rather than retreating, and claimed the evidence was in an article that never even existed, so he voluntarily withdrew from the global warming debate. It’s funny how he popped up on the other side of the planet and rejoined the debate here.
March 29th, 2008 at 10:22 am
Using solar energy plants use hydrogen from water and carbon from carbon dioxide to make carbohydrate, oxygen is a by-product of this. At night when plants respire they also release carbon dioxide. CO2 is no good without water and sunlight, its an ingredient for food production, not food in itself. A bit like oil as an essential ingredient in commercial food production, but we can’t ingest it directly.
Reduce the amount of plants through deforestation and converting the land to pasture, and increase the variability of the water supply and it becomes even more difficult for plants to sequester it.
The fossil fuels that we use today were stored in sediments millions of years ago, and as they have been stored the earth’s temperature has gradually decreased. We exist in such robust numbers now because the current climatic conditions are just right to support us, change these conditions and fail to switch from oil dependance….