Coal mining "more lucrative for Zetas than selling drugs."
1/4/13, "Mexican Cartels Go Underground—to Mine Coal," TheFix.com
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11/17/12, "Mexican druglords strike gold in coal," AFP via Gloucester City News
"Since the Zetas discovered coal, violence has been on the rise, especially in a town of 150,000 called Piedras Negras, or black stones....Legitimate businesses help cartels launder money and bring in extra revenue....Such business activities allow them not just to bring in more money "but above all gain social and political legitimacy."...Traffickers sometimes kidnap, mug or even kill miners and their bosses, or force them into business-sharing agreements."...
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"Since the Zetas discovered coal, violence has been on the rise, especially in a town of 150,000 called Piedras Negras, or black stones....Legitimate businesses help cartels launder money and bring in extra revenue....Such business activities allow them not just to bring in more money "but above all gain social and political legitimacy."...Traffickers sometimes kidnap, mug or even kill miners and their bosses, or force them into business-sharing agreements."...
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Coal mined by the Zetas is "sold to state-owned electric company CFE."
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10/31/12, "3 Coal companies investigated for drug ties in Mexico," Latino.FoxNews.com. ---------------------------------------------------
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"Mexican authorities are investigating three coal mining firms for their alleged links to drug traffickers, a Mexico City daily reported Wednesday.
Citing unidentified officials, the Reforma newspaper said the Los Zetas drug cartel, regarded as Mexico's most violent, was the gang allegedly involved in this business in the northern state of Coahuila.
The article was published a week after former Coahuila Gov. Humberto Moreira said groups of "narco-miners" were extracting coal in that state and selling it to intermediaries.
Moreira, former chairman of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, which will take power on Dec. 1 after a 12-year hiatus, made the remarks last Thursday after his son, Jose Eduardo Moreira Rodriguez, was killed by Zetas gunmen.
In subsequent statements, Moreira said that in the coming days he would provide details on these and other allegations
According to Reforma, illegal mining generates at least 6 million pesos (some $460,000) in weekly income for organized crime gangs,
which later launder those proceeds through legally incorporated entities.
According to the daily, the firms
Impulsora JBN,
Perforaciones Tecnicas Industriales and
Minera La Mision
are under investigation "for their alleged role in these illegal businesses."
The mineral resources are sold to state-owned electric company CFE, the daily said.
The sources told Reforma that the Zetas' point man for this business is Jose Reynol Bermea, who runs several coal mines in Coahuila.
Efe was unable to reach the CFE for comment."
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The company said the coal collapse was due to a pocket of methane gas that instantaneously released. The mine's ventilation system prevented the gas from exploding."...map from mining.com
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1/4/13, "Mexican Cartels Go Underground—to Mine Coal," TheFix.com
"Mexico's federal human rights agency
has said that criminal involvement in the mines poses a threat to
miners' lives, by stripping them of basic safety protocols."...=====================
Decapitated heads in Mexico, a frequent occurrence. via Giovanni:
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Mexico has two huge power plants near the Texas border:9/11/06, "Mexico's Mine Crisis: Tiny coal mines escape inspections," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, J.L. Sherman
According to the Mexican Geological Service, the "carboniferous
region" of northern Coahuila state, Mexico's only coal mining region, now has about 60 pocitos, with 25 under construction."...photo, Esequiel Briones Ramirez, 19, works in a pocito in the northern Mexican desert, by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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Northern Mexico open pit coal mine sells coal to Mexican gov.:
"The gas explosion that trapped 14 miners underground Tuesday in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila has now claimed the lives of five of those workers.
Rescue crews at the mine near the town of Sabinas worked overnight to rescue the trapped miners, but have so far only recovered five bodies....
(Mexico Sec. of Labor) Lozano was critical of the
conditions at the mine, which had allegedly operated for 20 days without any authorization and which the Mexican mine workers’ union called totally unsafe. The mine is owned by the company BINSA.
Lozano added that there was no official record of the miner’s working at the site and that the mine “operated almost the underground.” ...
Mining near-surface coal in the region is a way of life for thousands of miners who sell the coal to the Mexican state for power generation and often work with little more than basic tools....
Mining accidents are common, as in 2006 a blast at the Pasta de Conchos mine collapsed thousands of tons of rocks and killed 65 miners....
Despite the grim news surrounding the mine explosion, Mexican President Felipe Calderón tried to sound hopeful and assure families of the miners that the federal government was working with state officials to coordinate the rescue effort."...photo: la nave de las locas @ Flickr."
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6/4/12, “Climate change stunner: USA leads world in CO2 cuts since 2006,” Vancouver Observer, Saxifrage
“Not only that, but as my top chart shows, US CO2 emissions are falling even faster than what President Obama pledged in the global Copenhagen Accord.… Here is the biggest shocker of all: the average American’s CO2 emissions are down to levels not seen since 1964 --over half a century ago. …Coal is the number two source of CO2 for Americans. Today the average American burns an amount similar to what they did in 1955, and even less than they did in the 1940s. …It is exactly America’s historical role of biggest and dirtiest that makes their sharp decline in CO2 pollution so noteworthy
and potentially game changing at the global level.”...
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6/26/12, “The Incredible Shrinking Carbon Pollution Forecast – Part 2,” switchboard.nrdc.org, Dan Lashof
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.“Back in February I posted about a surprising development: Despite the failure of comprehensive climate and energy legislation in 2010, U.S. carbon pollution emissions and projections of future carbon pollution have been coming down ever since....
While there has been some press coverage of these facts (see here and here) I continue to find that most people are surprised to learn about this progress….
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8/16/12, “AP IMPACT: CO2 emissions in US drop to 20-year low,” AP, Kevin Begos
“In a surprising turnaround, the amount of carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere in the U.S. has fallen dramatically to its lowest level in 20 years, and government officials say the biggest reason is that cheap and plentiful natural gas has led many power plant operators to switch from dirtier-burning coal.
Many of the world’s leading climate scientists didn’t see the drop coming, in large part because it happened as a result of market forces rather than direct government action against carbon dioxide....
Michael Mann, director of the Earth System Science Center at Penn State University, said the shift away from coal is reason for “cautious optimism” about potential ways to deal with climate change….
In a little-noticed technical report, the U.S. Energy Information Agency, a part of the Energy Department, said this month that energy related U.S. CO2 emissions for the first four months of this year fell to about 1992 levels. Energy emissions make up about 98 percent of the total.
The Associated Press contacted environmental experts, scientists and utility companies and learned that
virtually everyone believes the shift could have major long-term implications for U.S. energy policy.”…
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1/15/11, “Recession Special: Cleaner Air,“ NY Times, Matthew Wald
“What the government has not mandated, the economy is doing on its own: emissions of global warming gases in the United States are down.
According to the Energy Department, carbon dioxide emissions peaked in this country in 2005 and will not reach that level again until the early 2020s.”…
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4/21/12, "Why Emissions Are Declining in the U.S. But Not in Europe," NewGeography.com, Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus
"It wasn't that long ago that the U.S. was cast as the global climate villain, refusing to sign the Kyoto accord while Europe implemented cap and trade.
But, as we note below in a new article for Yale360, a funny thing happened: U.S. emissions started going down in 2005 and are expected to decline further over the next decade, while Europe's cap and trade system has had no measurable impact on emissions. Even the supposedly green Germany is moving back to coal.
Why? The reason is obvious: the U.S. is benefitting from the 30-year, government-funded technological revolution that massively increased the supply of unconventional natural gas, making it cheap even when compared to coal.
The contrast between what is happening in Europe and what is happening in the U.S. challenges anyone who still thinks pricing carbon and emissions trading are more important to emissions reductions than direct and sustained public investment in technology innovation."
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Above, August, 2007: “China’s industrial growth depends on coal, plentiful but polluting, from mines like this one in Shenmu, Shaanxi Province, behind a village store,” NY Times.
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Communist China ramping up coal use and facilities:
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1/29/13, "China now burning as much coal as the rest of the world combined," Washington Post, Brad Plumer
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11/19/12, "More than 1,000 New Coal Plants Planned Worldwide," Damian Carrington, UK Guardian
"India is planning 455 new plants compared to 363 in China."...
Most new coal-fired plants will be built by Chinese or Indian companies. But new plants have largely been financed by both commercial banks and development banks.
JP Morgan Chase has provided more than $16.5bn (£10.3bn) for new coal plants over the past six years, followed by
"India is planning 455 new plants compared to 363 in China."...
Most new coal-fired plants will be built by Chinese or Indian companies. But new plants have largely been financed by both commercial banks and development banks.
JP Morgan Chase has provided more than $16.5bn (£10.3bn) for new coal plants over the past six years, followed by
Citi ($13.8bn).
Barclays ($11.5bn) comes in as the fifth biggest coal backer and
the Royal Bank of Scotland ($10.9bn) as the seventh.
The Japan Bank for International Co-operation was the biggest development bank ($8.1bn), with
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Communist China is backing off electric cars:
1/16/13, “China’s Green Leap Backward,” The Nation, Lucia Green-Weiskel
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1/16/13, “China’s Green Leap Backward,” The Nation, Lucia Green-Weiskel
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"Climate" is about US taxpayer money:
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US 'climate action' in Nov. 2012 included giving $6 billion US taxpayer dollars for 'clean energy' to the Sultan of Brunei who owns 5000+ cars and to the Pres. of Indonesia, whose country is so corrupt even the World Bank says crime adds 20% to costs.
Below, one of the Sultan of Brunei's cars:
7/24/12, "The Sultan's Cars," wheel to wheel blog
Below, one of the Sultan of Brunei's cars:
7/24/12, "The Sultan's Cars," wheel to wheel blog
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Following are 4 articles citing how western US atmosphere is influenced by aerosols and other matter flowing from Communist China:
6/7/12, “Potential impacts of Asian carbon aerosols on future US warming,“ Geophysical Research Letters, AGU
“Key Points: Asian black carbon aerosol can enhance US warming by changing the circulation“
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7/20/2007, "Huge Dust Plumes From China Cause Changes in Climate," NY Times, Robert Lee Hotz
"On some days, almost a third of the air over Los Angeles and San Francisco can be traced directly to Asia. With it comes up to three-quarters of the black carbon particulate pollution that reaches the West Coast, Dr. Ramanathan and his colleagues recently reported in the Journal of Geophysical Research. This transcontinental pollution is part of a growing global traffic in dust and aerosol particles."...
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Following are 4 articles citing how western US atmosphere is influenced by aerosols and other matter flowing from Communist China:
6/7/12, “Potential impacts of Asian carbon aerosols on future US warming,“ Geophysical Research Letters, AGU
“Key Points: Asian black carbon aerosol can enhance US warming by changing the circulation“
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7/20/2007, "Huge Dust Plumes From China Cause Changes in Climate," NY Times, Robert Lee Hotz
"On some days, almost a third of the air over Los Angeles and San Francisco can be traced directly to Asia. With it comes up to three-quarters of the black carbon particulate pollution that reaches the West Coast, Dr. Ramanathan and his colleagues recently reported in the Journal of Geophysical Research. This transcontinental pollution is part of a growing global traffic in dust and aerosol particles."...
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April 2011, "Air Pollution in China, Facts and Details," Jeffrey Hays
"Soot, dust and chemical pollutants from China have been captured in a weather observation stations on the summit of Mount Bachelor in Cascade Range in Oregon. Soot, dust, ozone and nitrous oxides can be detected by satellites moving across the Pacific." (see sub-head, 'Chinese air pollution reaches the United States')
"Even if China increased the efficiency of its coal burning power plants, it wouldn't make much of difference because so many small industries and households burn coal for heating, cooking and power."...(sub-head, 'Success and limitations in cleaning up air pollution in China').
"Washington Post writer John Pomfret was based in Beijing for many years. When his family moved to Los Angeles afterwards his son’s asthma attacks and chronic chest infections stopped. When asked why he moved to Los Angeles he jokingly said “for the air.”"...(sub-head, "Health problems and air pollution in China')
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"Soot, dust and chemical pollutants from China have been captured in a weather observation stations on the summit of Mount Bachelor in Cascade Range in Oregon. Soot, dust, ozone and nitrous oxides can be detected by satellites moving across the Pacific." (see sub-head, 'Chinese air pollution reaches the United States')
"Even if China increased the efficiency of its coal burning power plants, it wouldn't make much of difference because so many small industries and households burn coal for heating, cooking and power."...(sub-head, 'Success and limitations in cleaning up air pollution in China').
"Washington Post writer John Pomfret was based in Beijing for many years. When his family moved to Los Angeles afterwards his son’s asthma attacks and chronic chest infections stopped. When asked why he moved to Los Angeles he jokingly said “for the air.”"...(sub-head, "Health problems and air pollution in China')
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8/26/2007, "As China Roars, Pollution Reaches Deadly Extremes," NY Times, J. Kahn, J. Yardley
"(Chinese) Provincial officials, who enjoy substantial autonomy, often ignore environmental edicts, helping to reopen mines or factories closed by central authorities. Over all, enforcement is often tinged with corruption. This spring, officials in Yunnan Province in southern China beautified Laoshou Mountain, which had been used as a quarry, by spraying green paint over acres of rock. (p. 2 of 6) ...
"Beijing also insists that it will accept no mandatory limits on its carbon dioxide emissions, which would almost certainly reduce its industrial growth. It argues that rich countries caused global warming and should find a way to solve it without impinging on China’s development....(p. 2 of 6)
"The toll this pollution has taken on human health remains a delicate topic in China. The leadership has banned publication of data on the subject for fear of inciting social unrest, said scholars involved in the research."... (p. 3 of 6, bottom)
"(Chinese) Provincial officials, who enjoy substantial autonomy, often ignore environmental edicts, helping to reopen mines or factories closed by central authorities. Over all, enforcement is often tinged with corruption. This spring, officials in Yunnan Province in southern China beautified Laoshou Mountain, which had been used as a quarry, by spraying green paint over acres of rock. (p. 2 of 6) ...
"Beijing also insists that it will accept no mandatory limits on its carbon dioxide emissions, which would almost certainly reduce its industrial growth. It argues that rich countries caused global warming and should find a way to solve it without impinging on China’s development....(p. 2 of 6)
"The toll this pollution has taken on human health remains a delicate topic in China. The leadership has banned publication of data on the subject for fear of inciting social unrest, said scholars involved in the research."... (p. 3 of 6, bottom)
(p. 5 of 6): "In 1996, China and the United States each accounted for 13 percent of global steel production. By 2005, the United States share had dropped to 8 percent, while China’s share had risen to 35 percent."...
"Today, a culture of collusion between government and business has made all but the most pro-growth government policies hard to enforce."...(p. 6 of 6. 2nd para.)
"The state still controls the price of fuel oil, including gasoline, subsidizing the cost of driving. (p. 6)
"Energy and environmental officials have little influence in the bureaucracy. The environmental agency still has only about 200 full-time employees, compared with 18,000 at the Environmental Protection Agency in the United States. "...
"Today, a culture of collusion between government and business has made all but the most pro-growth government policies hard to enforce."...(p. 6 of 6. 2nd para.)
"The state still controls the price of fuel oil, including gasoline, subsidizing the cost of driving. (p. 6)
"Energy and environmental officials have little influence in the bureaucracy. The environmental agency still has only about 200 full-time employees, compared with 18,000 at the Environmental Protection Agency in the United States. "...
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1/11/11, “Big Money in Climate Change: Who Gives, Who Gets,” Al Fin
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For those who care about the planet, UK Met Office says global warming is not happening:
1/12/13, “Global warming stopped 16 years ago, Met Office report reveals: MoS got it right about warming… so who are the ‘deniers’ now?” UK Daily Mail, David Rose
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For those who care about the planet, UK Met Office says global warming is not happening:
1/12/13, “Global warming stopped 16 years ago, Met Office report reveals: MoS got it right about warming… so who are the ‘deniers’ now?” UK Daily Mail, David Rose
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In Jan. 2013, NASA climate scientist Hansen "5-year mean global temperature has been flat for a decade," climate predictions hampered by lack of scientific data, 2011 NASA satellite intended to measure aerosols crashed on take-off:
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Page 1 notes lack of scientific data on aerosols makes it impossible to accurately interpret global climate.
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Jan. 15, 2013, “Global Temperature Update Through 2012, 15 January 2013,” Columbia University, J. Hansen, M. Sato, R. Rudy
(page 1): “Summary. …”The 5-year mean global temperature has been flat for a decade, which we interpret as a combination of natural variability and a slowdown in the growth rate of the net climate forcing…
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Jan. 15, 2013, “Global Temperature Update Through 2012, 15 January 2013,” Columbia University, J. Hansen, M. Sato, R. Rudy
(page 1): “Summary. …”The 5-year mean global temperature has been flat for a decade, which we interpret as a combination of natural variability and a slowdown in the growth rate of the net climate forcing…
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