World against coal, damage to climate, health, economy - ANSA.it

Into ROME – The world mobilizes’ against coal considered a” harm to the environment, health and the economy.” While on the twitter hashtag # endcoal travels to trend levels, on the site ‘endtheageofcoal.org’ you can get information for the Day against fossil” more ‘polluting”, scheduled for tomorrow. At the cry ‘End the age of coal’, slogan of the event to ‘turn off’ the energy source” more ‘dirty that there is”, involving both the WWF Greenpeace.

Now, if at international signals on the fight against CO2 emissions (of which coal is considered primarily responsible) are these days relaxing, especially after the announcement of a G reen Plan by Barack Obama, in Italy – say WWF and Greenpeace – if uses it still too high. This inquiry ‘of the past” deliver an energy source hazardous to health and the climate.”

The association of Panda remember that in our country, for example, there are two of the 30 plants coal” more ‘pollutants in Europe, both owned”’ Enel Brindisi south, in ninth place, and that of Civitavecchia, 14 / or place, which together emit nearly 23 million tons of CO2 per ‘year. In Italy, according to” 13” and” coal power plants in 2010 produced about 39,734 GWh (gigawatt hours), contributing to 11, 6% of the total electricity needs, have produced about 35 million tons of CO2 corresponding to more than 30% of all emissions of the national electricity system.” Just in Civitavecchia Greenpeace held a protest against the use of coal in the sea, in front of the power plant, opened a huge banner floating of 1, 500 square meters with the words ‘No to coal, coal quit’. From a ranking made by Greenpeace on CO2 emissions from large plants in 2012 in our country shows that Enel’s Brindisi south would issue 12.2 million tons, followed by there ‘Torrevaldaliga north with 10.4 million tons , in third place, close to the podium, there ‘Ilva Taranto with 10.3 million tons. In fourth place is the square of Taranto plant property ‘of Taranto energy (7.5 million tonnes) and the fifth Sarroch Saras refinery (5.9 million tons).

” E ‘come – says Andrea Boraschi, head of Greenpeace’s climate and energy campaign – time for a change and the government must assume its responsibility”’. But in Italy, says the WWF, despite the Planet” is going in another direction,” you are still thinking of converting coal to the Central Porto Tolle in the park of the Po Delta, open a new one in Saline and Joniche expand to V ado Ligure. ” The WWF asks that you put aside the decision with plans for new coal-fired plants – said Kim Carstensen, head of Climate and Energy, WWF Italy – are also closed existing coal plants, starting from the most ‘polluting the climate and the health”.