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China has banned coal-fire power plants in the capital Beijing and other major cities -- a long-awaited move expected to reduce chronic air pollution and acid rain, state press reported Thursday. The plants have been banned in Beijing, Shanghai and 21 provincial capitals, the China Daily said. The cities are responsible for some 60 percent of China's sulphur dioxide emissions. In other big and medium-sized cities, thermo-electric projects approved under national energy polices must meet environmental protection standards, the report said, citing State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) guidelines. Sulphur dioxide is the leading cause of acid rain, which occurs over one-third of China, the report said. According to SEPA statistics, coal-fire power stations in China emitted more than 6.6 million tons of sulfphur dioxide in 2002, some 33 percent of China's sulfphur dioxide emissions, it said. Meanwhile desulfphurization projects are being carried out at 137 coal-fire plants across the country and are slated to be completed by 2005, it said. According to the new guidelines, desulfphurization equipment will be required at all new coal-fire power projects that get state approval. All rights reserved. © 2003 Agence France-Presse. Sections of the information displayed on this page (dispatches, photographs, logos) are protected by intellectual property rights owned by Agence France-Presse. As a consequence, you may not copy, reproduce, modify, transmit, publish, display or in any way commercially exploit any of the content of this section without the prior written consent of Agence France-Presse. Related Links SpaceDaily Search SpaceDaily Subscribe To SpaceDaily Express 
Dupont And Nrel To Develop World's First Integrated Bio-Refinery
Wilmington - Oct 07, 2003DuPont and the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) today announced a joint research agreement leading toward the development of the world's first integrated "bio-refinery" that uses corn or other renewable resources – rather than traditional petrochemicals – to produce a host of valuable fuels and value-added chemicals. |
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