{"id":19776,"date":"2013-07-18T19:37:01","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T23:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=19776"},"modified":"2013-07-18T19:37:01","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T23:37:01","slug":"the-war-on-coal-goes-global","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=19776","title":{"rendered":"The War On Coal Goes Global"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Steven F. Hayward\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Steven_F._Hayward\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Steven Hayward<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2013\/07\/world-bank-to-developing-nations-drop-dead.php\">Power Line<\/a> posted an article reporting that the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"World Bank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldbank.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">World Bank<\/a> voted yesterday to cease funding <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Fossil-fuel power station\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fossil-fuel_power_station\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">coal-fired power plants<\/a> in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Developing country\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Developing_country\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">developing nations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The World Bank not only ruled that it would not fund <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Coal\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Coal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">coal-fired<\/a> power to developing nations, but also not fund <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Energy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wikinvest.com\/industry\/Energy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikinvest\">energy<\/a> projects in any nation that uses other funds to finance coal power. Coal is a cheap form of energy that in the past has helped countries progress from third-world nations into participating and contributing members of the world economy.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The bank\u2019s sweeping \u201cDirections for the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"World Bank Group\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldbank.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">World Bank Group<\/a>\u2019s Energy Sector\u201d emphasizes bringing <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Energy poverty\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Energy_poverty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">energy access<\/a> to the estimated 1.2 billion people living without electricity and 2.8 billion without modern cooking facilities. It promises financial solutions for the most feasible energy options in poor, fragile and conflict-ridden states. It embraces renewable energy, <em>energy efficiency<\/em> and off-grid technology while also vowing to increase assistance for natural gas and large hydropower development.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The World Bank has just decided that it doesn&#8217;t want any more countries to develop. This ruling is not practical for countries that need cheap energy now.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=dc463957-70a8-4e5b-b6f1-52afb4ff279c\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Steven Hayward at Power Line posted an article reporting that the World Bank voted yesterday to cease funding coal-fired power plants in developing nations. 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