I believe we have reached the stage where it is time for civil disobedience to prevent the construction of new coal plants that do not have carbon capture and sequestration." He added, "clean coal does not exist." Full Story »
Posted by Derek Hawkins
This is not a very fair or balanced opinion piece, but it is quite informative. It explains where liberals stand on the issue of coal, and makes a partial, though interesting case against boycotting new coal-fire plants. Overall though I didn't feel the arguments added up.
Reasonable evidence provided for some assertions. As is often the case with opinion, key assertions have no support at all. I find no report of vandalism on the home of Jim Rogers. The information about James Hansen's support for the Kingsnorth Six implies that Hansen himself argued that the defendants had a "lawful excuse", when his testimony was only about climate change and included no such terms.
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