Trump lies to attack industry sector

[eagle1462010]

The Coal industry has been reducing and will continue to reduce emissions .........They have been installing every required EPA device for decades..........Scrubbers and Ionizers...........and have upgraded the holding ponds for the soda ash which has been reduced through Ionization and filters.......

Our emissions are not the same as the decades before.........In mining the coal OSHA has installed major mining procedure to stop the health hazards to the workers and surrounding areas..............We have come a long way to deal with the emissions problems.

What this thread does not do..................is show the DIRTY LITTLE SECRETS of the Green Energy manufacturing in the Far East who are doing so with virtually no EPA or environmental protections to bring us the products...........this is like the U.S. going back to the industrial revolution and starting from scratch..........

The pollution of the manufacturing and the mining of the products for Solar, Wind, and batteries offset any gains of using these Solar Panels and Wind Turbines bragged about by left.

All they have done is relocated the pollution to other parts of the world.......which is KILLING THE WORKERS THERE............and causing massive harm to the land as these countries HAVE NOT HONORED their promises to upgrade their Environmental impacts of the mining and production of these SO CALLED GREEN saving the planet items such as Solar Panels and Wind Turbines.

These are their Dirty little Secrets...........that they don't want to talk about.

 

[eagle1462010]

The World's Toxic Waste Dump: Choking on Chemicals in China - SPIEGEL ONLINE - International

Swimming or suicide in the Yangtze

The negative consequences of the boom are devastating. Five of the world's 10 most polluted cities are in China. More than two-thirds of all Chinese rivers and lakes are turning into sewers -- even before the recent accident, the Songhua River was hardly a model of cleanliness -- and more than 360 million people have no access to clean drinking water. A toxic soup splashes through the country's waterways, while people living along the banks die from cancer at above-average rates. Nowadays, the then 72-year-old former party chairman Mao Zedong's legendary swimming outing in the Yangtze River in 1966 would no longer be seen as evidence of his strength, but more as a suicide attempt.

The Chinese capital itself is suffocating in its own filth and pollution. On many days of the year, Beijing is covered by a dome of pollution made up of the exhaust gases from more than 2 million cars, as well as the dust from construction sites and cement plants. "The government doesn't want to talk about it before the 2008 Olympic Games, but the level of exhaust gases in Beijing's air is dangerously high," warns a high-ranking government official. Satellite measurements have revealed that Beijing is covered by a blanket of nitrogen dioxide of previously unheard-of proportions.

And there is no improvement in sight. To meet its rapidly growing demand for energy, the government is building coal power plants, with more than 500 planned for the next few years. Although China has its fair share of windmills and Beijing promotes renewable energies, well over two-thirds of the country's electricity requirements are met by burning coal.

"Because energy is so scarce, the Chinese are now burning anything that looks like coal," complains a German environmental expert. And because filters are not in compliance with international standards, emissions of sulfur and nitrogen oxides are "a dimension higher" than in other industrialized nations. "Half of all coal power plants," admits a SEPA official, "violate environmental regulations."

$250 billion of pollution

The People's Republic, which could soon surpass the United States as the world's largest producer of greenhouse gases, has lost its ecological balance and is paying a heavy price as a result. About 400,000 people die prematurely each year because of the polluted air they breathe. Experts estimate the annual loss at 8 to 15 percent of the gross domestic product -- or up to $250 billion -- a figure that does not include the costs of treating cancer, skin conditions and bronchitis.

 

[eagle1462010]

Environmental “Time Bomb”…China To Dump 20 Million Tonnes Of Solar Panel Waste Into Environment

We have to face it: The West has done our planet no favor by moving industrial production and manufacturing to China. Trump is right, many of factories and industries are better back home, even if it means paying a bit more for products.

Not only does the China use the oceans as a global dump for much of its plastic trash, the country now is gearing up to turn parts of the planet into a toxic solar panel waste dump.

According to French science magazine Futura here, we are looking at a “solar panel time bomb”.

Futura describes how China is installing “gigantic” solar panel farms in remote places like Tibet and how 30 years from now the country will have “mountains of solar panels reaching their end of their lives and that nothing is planned for their collection and recycling.”

20 million TONNES of solar panel waste
According to Futura, China met its 2020 solar energy installation target three years in advance and that its capacity will grown tenfold by 2040 – growing from 77 GW of installed rated capacity to 738 GW. This all means that China ultimately will pile up to 20 million tonnes of waste by 2050, which will be more than the United States, Japan and Germany combined.

Futura quotes Tian Min, a director of a Chinese company which collects used panels.

Our solar industry is a real time bomb.”

While Europe has already regulations in place for handling solar panels at the end of their lifetimes, China so far has no plan whatsoever in place to handle scrap panel problem, Futura reports.

Most manufacturers focus on developing better panels and do not care about the fate of their products.”

 

[eagle1462010]

300 Million people get Bacterial diarrhea every year from unsafe drinking water........
20% of their rivers are unsafe to be touched.
61% of their water is polluted

 

[eagle1462010]

China No Longer Wants Your Trash. Here's Why That's Potentially Disastrous. | HuffPost

For more than 20 years, China has been the world’s recycling bin, accepting an enormous quantity of recyclable waste from nations worldwide. In 2016, China processed at least half of the world’s exports of waste plastic, paper and metals. The U.S. exported 16 million tons of waste to China that year, worth about $5.2 billion. Britain sent China enough garbage to fill up 10,000 Olympic-size swimming pools.

As Beijing itself acknowledged, many environmental and public health issues had also arisen from this unchecked recycling boom. Because exporting countries had sent their waste willy-nilly to China ― a lot of it so contaminated that it could not even be recycled ― piles of imported garbage ended up filling China’s landfills and polluting the country’s waterways. Some of this imported waste also proved hazardous, like the time in 1996 when Chinese recycling factories accidentally imported more than 100 tons of radioactive metal from Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.

The incredible influx of waste into China also spawned entire towns devoted to recycling, where adults and children alike were often subjected to dangerous working conditions and exposed to toxic chemicals. One such community was spotlighted in Wang Jiuliang’s acclaimed documentary “Plastic China,” which screened at the Sundance Film Festival last year. The film triggered a surge of public anger in China — and observers say the film, though scrubbed from the Chinese internet soon after its original release in 2014, may have played a part in forcing Beijing to rethink its role in the global waste industry.

Wang, who spent three years filming the documentary, told Chinese news outlet Caixin Global in December that he still has scars on his face from the chloracne, a nasty skin condition caused by an overexposure to certain chemicals, that he developed while creating the film.