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  • Is there such a thing as clean coal?

    While the US Congress is debating on offshore drilling , another debate that has been going on for years is government funding on another supposedly clean energy source, liquid coal. Environmentalists are definitely dead-set against using any types of coal even if they're supposedly clean. Here's...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-14-2008
  • Should GreenPeace attend chemical conferences?

    This group was able to get in a major coal conference in New York this week using a phony name, ads and brochures (for a sponsorship fee of $8,500), according to this article from Reuters . The organizers decided to let them stay (but beefed up their security just in case) even after they unveiled their...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-27-2008
  • Coal it off!

    International green groups has given the World Bank's recent announcement of a $4.2bn clean energy investment in India a very coal-d reception. IFC , a member of the World Bank Group, will finance in the building of a total 4,000 megawatt coal-fired power plant in the Mundra region, with the first...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-10-2008
  • Life gets more complicated for methanol

    In the good or maybe the bad old days depending on your standpoint, methanol was a fairly straightforward product. You had chemicals demand and that was more or less it. But as the extended analysis below explains, chemical producers who use methanol as feedstock have to factor in direct blending...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 01-31-2008
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