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...Yesterday some of the task force reps met with the coal industry. Are there going to be meetings like that with other groups, including environmentalists...
...coal industry chosen first to talk...
...Vice President, coal is certainly the most plentiful domestic resource that we have and by some accounting measures it's also one of the cheaper ones. How does coal fit into your plan, and is it wise, considering the environmental problems associated with coal and the years that it could take for clean coal technology to solve the problem, to have a big role for coal, if that's what...
...Well, coal is important. You start with a proposition that about 52% of all our electric generating capacity in the country today is coal-fired. So it's already a very, very important part of our energy situation. One of the things that it's important to keep in mind is that we estimate that some 1300 to 1900 new generating facilities will be required over the next 20 years. But say the conservative estimate of some 1300 power plants works out to about 65 power plants per year. Some of those are bound to be coal-fired. And coal...
...must treat developed and developing countries equally. Such a repudiation is one more argument the Administration is using to pull the plug on Kyoto - though the Senate was probably driven by more than mere conscience. One of the 1997 resolution's sponsors was Democratic Senator Robert Byrd, from the coal-producing state of West Virginia. Other interests - notably the oil and coal industries, both heavy contributors to Bush's election campaign - also had the President...