Coal-fuelled cement plant starts operations despite protests by locals

 

Despite protests by the locals, the 500-tonne cement factory has started commercial operations in Kyakmayaw township of Mon state, according to report of The Irrawaddy Online on Friday.

 

Mon state Chief Minister Dr Aye Zan confirmed on Thursday that the US$400 million project run by Mawlamyine Cement United – a joint venture between Thailand’ Siam Cement Group and Pacific Link Cement Industries – will be fuelled by a coal-fired power plant built within the compound.

 

According to the Mon state’s Myanmar Port Authority, nearly 200,000 tonnes of coal has been shipped from Moulmein Port to the plant along the Attaran river. Locals fear the plant will pollute their environments and have protested against the lack of their consultation.

 

Full story: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/coal-fuelled-cement-plant-starts-operations-despite-protests-locals/

 

 

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The new coal fired places do not have the pollution that the old ones had. Go to China and see their factories

and power plants. One thing about coal, it does not have the radiation hazards that a Nuclear plant has, or

the risk of a melt down like what has happened in Japan or Russia.

However the green people will not use this logic, and only talk about the bad dirty polluting coal industry.

Geezer

 

2 hours ago, Stargrazer9889 said:

The new coal fired places do not have the pollution that the old ones had. Go to China and see their factories

and power plants. One thing about coal, it does not have the radiation hazards that a Nuclear plant has, or

the risk of a melt down like what has happened in Japan or Russia.

However the green people will not use this logic, and only talk about the bad dirty polluting coal industry.

Geezer

 

• Thailand is not China, especially when it comes to energy technology.
• China now has four nuclear power plants under construction with an overall twenty planned in the next two decades. China wants to phase out dirty coal-fired power plants. Wikipedia
• Many countries with existing nuclear power programs (Argentina, Armenia, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Czech Rep., India, Pakistan, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, South Korea, South Africa, UAE, Ukraine, UK, USA) have plans to build new power reactors (beyond those now under construction). http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/current-and-future-generation/plans-for-new-reactors-worldwide.aspx
• The cost for new ultra-supercritical coal-fired power (aka "clean coal technology) costs around three times the cost of wind or solar. http://reneweconomy.com.au/clean-coal-most-expensive-new-power-supply-says-bnef-and-not-all-that-clean-74531/
• Coal itself is not a clean fuel, something that the Thai government erroneously promotes. Prayut has uses Article 44 to bypass consideration of expensive emissions control equipment necessary to burn coal.

 

Nuclear power is not a clean safe power source either, and when things go wrong as they did

in Japan and Russia, the clean up is beyond any 0ther power source to clean up. Would you go

live near the Japan or Russia sites even if you could.  Well neither Russians or the Japanese will

be living near those sites on our life time.  Coal may not be considered clean,  but I would rather live

near a coal fired power station, than a Nuclear site.

Geezer