By Duggan Flanakin ~
The cat came back, they thought he was a goner. But the cat came back; he just couldn’t stay away. – Fred Penner
Remember the old days (a few months ago) when Western Europe and the U.S. were telling developing nations (but not China or India) that coal is evil and must not be mined?
Remember in 2008 when future President Barack Obama promised that, while anyone could build a coal-fired power plant, “It will bankrupt them?”
Remember seven years ago, when Politico, citing the Sierra Club’s “Beyond Coal” campaign, explained it this way: “The war on coal is not just political rhetoric, or a paranoid fantasy concocted by rapacious polluters. It’s real and it’s relentless. Over the past five years, it has killed a coal-fired power plant every 10 days.”
Just a year ago, at the UN Climate Conference in Gleneagles, there was widespread…
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