ANOTHER INDUSTRY WILLING TO CREATE JOBS

(EXPORTING COAL TO CREATE JOBS. BUT WAIT ... THIS MARXIST ADMINISTRATION AND ITS MARXISTS COHORTS WILL KILL THIS.)

Cowlitz County in Washington approved construction of a coal export terminal from which millions of tons of U.S. coal could be shipped to Asia annually.

Half of the 6 billion tons of coal burned globally each year is burned in China. A spokesman for the Sierra Club, which in recent years has helped to block construction of 139 proposed coal-fired plants in America, says, "This is undermining everything we've accomplished." America, say environmentalists, is exporting global warming. 


Can something really be exported if it supposedly affects the entire planet? Never mind. America has partners in this crime against nature, if such it is. One Australian company proposes to build the Cowlitz facility; another has signed a $60 billion contract to supply Chinese power plants with Australian coal.


The Times says ships — all burning hydrocarbons — hauled about 690 million tons of thermal coal this year, up from 385 million in 2001. China, which imported about 150 million tons this year, was a net exporter of coal until 2009, sending abroad its low-grade coal and importing higher-grade, low-sulfur coal from, for example, the Powder River Basin of Wyoming and Montana. 


Because much of China's enormous coal reserves are inland, far from coastal factories, it is sometimes more economical to import American and Australian coal. 


http://www.newsmax.com/GeorgeWill/China-coal-carbonfootprint-globalwarming/2010/12/30/id/381435