Antinuclear

How on earth can coal gas be called “renewable” energy?

Alternative energy advocates unhappy about coal gas inclusion in RET bill
ABC Rural News  18/08/2009
Alternative energy groups say gas produced by burning coal doesn’t come from a renewable source, and shouldn’t be included under a renewable energy target scheme.
The chief executive of Western Australia’s Sustainable Energy Association, Professor Ray Wills, wants a new bill introduced into Federal Parliament.

He says it should be separate to either the renewable energy or emissions trading legislation, to deal with so-called ‘transitional’ fuels.”And including coal gas which actually does a useful service of reducing methane to carbon dioxide, and so therefore is less greenhouse intensive, but it’s certainly not a renewable energy source,” he says.”We can set up separate innovation funds that allow migration from fossil fuelgeneration to renewable energy generation.”

Alternative energy advocates unhappy about coal gas inclusion in RET bill – 18/08/2009

August 18, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, energy