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The Canadian government is planning to phase-out traditional coal-fired power st ...

29/04/2009

The Canadian government is planning to phase-out traditional coal-fired power stations, Environment Minister Jim Prentice has said. New coal plants will have to include carbon capture and storage technology and there are plans to impose absolute emission caps on utilities’ existing coal-fired plants, and establish a market-based system to allow them to buy credits to meet those targets, reports have said.

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Region: North America

Keywords: Coal - Government - Environment / Pollution

Subjects: Environment, Environmental protection, Protection of ambient air and climate, Policy and Governance, Planning and Design, Transformation [Energy processing] (Conversion), Electricity generation, Combined heat and power generation, Heat distribution, Storage, Power stations, Coal fired power stations, Carbon capture and storage