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BenarNews Security has been beefed up for Chinese workers at a power plant in southeastern Bangladesh, and police have filed cases against thousands of local workers who went on a rampage Saturday, leading officers to shoot dead five of them, authorities said Monday. More than 3,500 Bangladeshi workers upset over unpaid wages and work hours during Ramadan allegedly burned vehicles and attacked police at the sprawling facility still under construction in the Banshkhali sub-district of Chittagong, about 292 km (181 miles) southeast of Dhaka. The site is shuttered and many local workers have gone into hiding, some of them told BenarNews. The mob was on the verge of attacking about 900 Chinese nationals on the premises of the Banshkhali Power Plant when police fired on them to prevent “very, very serious incidents,” a senior police official in the Chittagong region told BenarNews on Saturday. ....
Or are they? Consol Energy Inc. doesnât believe so. At a time when coal-fired facilities are diminishing in number, the Southpointe-based energy company has ambitious plans to construct one at or near its Pennsylvania Mining Complex in Greene and Washington counties. And while coal has often been denounced as a notorious fossil fuel, a producer of climate-warming carbon emissions, Consol is viewing the resource as an ally that could be used at a plant that would result in zero carbon emissions â even negative emissions. The project may not reach fruition, but Consol â whose coal roots were sown in 1864, during the Civil War â is proceeding. If all goes well, the company hopes to have the plant operating in 2028. ....
Pledging $500 million towards closing every coal-fired plant by to 30. mirroring his work on gun control his donation to beyond carbon will focus on state and local government, funding lobbying and funding lawmakers who prioritize local energy. i want comes as the white house and epa make coal the concern stone of trump administration agenda with 241 plants still in operation across this country. the move could result in an additional 1400 pollution related deaths a year, according to the administration s own analysis. most of bloomberg s donation is expected to be used within the next three years. the job numbers for may are due out later this morning and could it be a game changer for markets and interest rates. what should we expect later this morning? reporter: well, jeff, 180,000 is the number the market is looking for when it comes to ....
Transition plan would look like? give me an idea. the idea is to do just what we are doing in washington. we are closing our last coal-fired plant. it s in a town called centralia, washington. when we made a decision to wean ourselves off coal, we didn t just shut that off lickety-split. we developed a transition plan that develops a $55 million plan to protect workers to make sure they can retire in dignity, if they are at that age, to make sure they can get a good training and education. and not just training. training is not enough. you have to have a job. so our plan helps develop small businesses to create jobs in that community and to help that community s infrastructure. and it s working really well. we re actually considering a possibility of transitioning actually to a solar plant. so how will climate change shape the 2020 debate? we got the experts back, right after the break. ....
John: what powers your tv? where does electricity come from? wind, solar power? not likely mayor cut nearly gets it from nuclear power, a natural-gas and coal. 86% of power cummins from those three sources of energy and this provides the most although not for long because ever government passes new rules to make it almost impossible to burn. senator abominated clear that is what he would do if he was elected to reach the can bill the coal-fired plant but we will baker of them because they will be charged for that greenhouse guest. john: that is what has happened epa rules make a new plan nearly impossible and a shot down existing plants we that is a good thing burning this does produce more than one-third ....