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Sergio Stefanuto
Joined: 14 May 2009
Location: UK
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 Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2010 9:20 pm Post subject: Sorry, Africa. No electricity for you today |
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Disgusting.
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Ghana is trying to build a 130-MW gas-fired power plant, to bring electricity�s blessings to more of its people, schools, hospitals and businesses. Today, almost half of Ghanaians never have access to electricity, or get it only a few hours a week.
Most people in Ghana are forced to cook and heat with wood, crop wastes or dung. The indoor air pollution from these fires causes blindness, asthma and severe lung infections that kill a million women and young children every year. Countless more Africans die from intestinal diseases caused by eating unrefrigerated, spoiled food.
But when Ghana asked OPIC to support the $185-million project, OPIC refused to finance even part of it � thus adding as much as 20% to its financing cost. Repeated across Africa, these extra costs for meeting �climate change prevention� policies will threaten numerous projects, and prolong poverty and disease for millions.
Even in South Africa, the most advanced nation in this region, 25% of the populace still has no electricity. Pervasively insufficient electrical power has meant frequent brownouts that have hampered factory output and forced gold and diamond mines to shut down, because of risks that miners would suffocate in darkness deep underground. The country also suffers from maternal mortality rates 36 times higher than in the US, and tuberculosis rates 237 times higher.
Blessed with abundant supplies of coal, South Africa has applied for a World Bank loan to continue building its 4,800-megawatt Medupi power plant. The Medupi plant would be equipped with the latest in �supercritical clean coal,� pollution control and �carbon capture� technologies. However, the project and loan have run into a buzz saw of opposition, led by the Center for American Progress, Africa Action, Friends of the Earth and Sierra Club. These radical groups claim to champion justice and better health for Africa, but oppose the very technologies that would make that possible�
http://www.theatheistconservative.com/2010/03/26/ghana-stuck-with-the-wind/ |
If China and India are building 50 coalplants per second and turning Earth into Venus, Africa may as well do the same. |
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CapnSamwise
Joined: 11 Jan 2010
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hey liberatard here question for you: ghana have much garbage and no power, so why not burn garbage pollutions? BAM earth happier but no, you don't want earth happier you just want manbearpig gore vidal to make beaucoup bucks on his "swapntraden" neo-facist plot??
edit- sergeio not you liberatard i mean libertard in the third person nonspecific. |
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Senior
Joined: 31 Jan 2010
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| Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2010 2:15 am Post subject: |
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hey liberatard here question for you: ghana have much garbage and no power, so why not burn garbage pollutions? BAM earth happier but no, you don't want earth happier you just want manbearpig gore vidal to make beaucoup bucks on his "swapntraden" neo-facist plot??
edit- sergeio not you liberatard i mean libertard in the third person nonspecific. |
The wacky babble shtick isn't really working for you. Why don't you go back to swearing and shouting at people, and calling them morons? At least it was honest.
Sergio, this is disgusting, but is it really surprising? |
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CapnSamwise
Joined: 11 Jan 2010
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| Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2010 2:29 am Post subject: |
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| senior you are like 5.7 megastalins. that is how terrible you are. |
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The Happy Warrior
Joined: 10 Feb 2010
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| Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 7:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Why should OPIC be forced to finance something against its goals? If OPIC would rather spend its money on projects that will be environmentally friendly, they should not be condemned on this account. |
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Fox
Joined: 04 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 9:25 pm Post subject: Re: Sorry, Africa. No electricity for you today |
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| Sergio Stefanuto wrote: |
Disgusting.
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Ghana is trying to build a 130-MW gas-fired power plant, to bring electricity�s blessings to more of its people, schools, hospitals and businesses. Today, almost half of Ghanaians never have access to electricity, or get it only a few hours a week.
Most people in Ghana are forced to cook and heat with wood, crop wastes or dung. The indoor air pollution from these fires causes blindness, asthma and severe lung infections that kill a million women and young children every year. Countless more Africans die from intestinal diseases caused by eating unrefrigerated, spoiled food.
But when Ghana asked OPIC to support the $185-million project, OPIC refused to finance even part of it � thus adding as much as 20% to its financing cost. Repeated across Africa, these extra costs for meeting �climate change prevention� policies will threaten numerous projects, and prolong poverty and disease for millions.
Even in South Africa, the most advanced nation in this region, 25% of the populace still has no electricity. Pervasively insufficient electrical power has meant frequent brownouts that have hampered factory output and forced gold and diamond mines to shut down, because of risks that miners would suffocate in darkness deep underground. The country also suffers from maternal mortality rates 36 times higher than in the US, and tuberculosis rates 237 times higher.
Blessed with abundant supplies of coal, South Africa has applied for a World Bank loan to continue building its 4,800-megawatt Medupi power plant. The Medupi plant would be equipped with the latest in �supercritical clean coal,� pollution control and �carbon capture� technologies. However, the project and loan have run into a buzz saw of opposition, led by the Center for American Progress, Africa Action, Friends of the Earth and Sierra Club. These radical groups claim to champion justice and better health for Africa, but oppose the very technologies that would make that possible�
http://www.theatheistconservative.com/2010/03/26/ghana-stuck-with-the-wind/ |
If China and India are building 50 coalplants per second and turning Earth into Venus, Africa may as well do the same. |
I don't care if Ghana wants to build power plants, but I also don't care if foreign investors want to refuse to help fund those power plants. If the power plant is a good investment it will draw private investors without the need for intercession by an oragnization like OPIC. If the power plant isn't a good investment, it's hard for me to condemn anyone for telling Ghana to go to Hell when they come, hat in hand, begging for money.
Ghana is fairly natural-resources rich; if the country was properly governed we'd see it do very well. The fact that it needs to seek international assistance to build something as fundamental as a power plant shows precisely how mismanaged it is. Why piss away money on that? |
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wesharris
Joined: 10 Oct 2008
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Seriously mate.
Beggars CAN"T BE choosers.
This would be the case of the beggar. |
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