Coal plant plan scrapped over emissions fears

A private sector plan to build a large-scale coal thermal power plant in Ube, Yamaguchi Prefecture, has been scrapped because of concern that it would produce too much carbon dioxide.

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The plant was to be capable of generating 1 million kilowatts of electricity, and its annual emission of CO2 was projected to exceed that of a plant using natural gas by 3 million tons–an amount equal to annual CO2 emissions from 540,000 households.

The Environment Ministry, which assessed the potential environmental effect of the plant, in mid-February requested that the enterprise come up with measures to substantially reduce the plant’s CO2 emissions.

Daily Yomiuri