South Korea Says It Has A Plan to Reduce Air Pollution By 20% This Winter
Does anyone think these measures are actually going to work to reduce fine dust in Seoul?:
A newly established presidential committee on fine dust relayed Monday plans to reduce Korea’s fine dust level by at least 20 percent this winter compared to last year by banning old diesel cars on the streets, raising their acquisition taxes and halting more coal power plants.
The National Council on Climate and Air Quality (NCCA), which launched in April at the helm of former UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, said during a press conference at the Korea Press Center in central Seoul that it submitted its proposals to the Blue House after passing them in an internal meeting last Friday.
In the following weeks, the government is expected to change relevant policies to put those ideas into action starting this November, the council said.
On ways to deal with emissions coming from China, the NCCA said it would share fine dust forecasts and warning alerts with the neighboring country and form a so-called Korea-China Blue Sky Partnership with Beijing to work closely together on the environmental hazard.
Joong Ang Ilbo
You can read more at the link, but I will be surprised if Beijing does anything to help reduce fine dust levels over Korea.
“The proposals, outlined at the latest forum on Sept. 7-8, included temporarily shutting down 14 of the nation’s 53 coal-fired power plants from December to February and 22 plants in March, while reducing operations of other coal power plants by 20 percent.”
My question is this:
If these plants are shut down, will there be a shortage of electricity? And if not, why are they running to begin with?
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Anyway, China’s going to help.
Shutting down electricity in the winter time will kill off some of those pesky old folks that know how bad communism is.
no diesels but cutting power output so no charging the battery powered idiot cars….good plan.
“We have made it a national goal to prepare a plan to cut wargarble by derp percent!”
Eight months later…
“While we did not fully meet our goals, the future shows great promise due to multilateral agreements among stakeholders to increase strategic planning capabilities which will insure wargarble js reduced by a full derp percent which is 10% below international herpderp.”