China’s Battle Between Coal, Water and Clean Air
The Chinese government announced a new plan to improve air pollution by reducing coal consumption...
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China’s Industrial Growth ‘A Threat To Resources’
Li Jing at The South China Morning Post reports on a United Nations Environment Program study on China’s resource consumption. The study finds that the speed and scale of resource consumption in the past 38 years in China has no...
China’s Ragtag Shale Army Far from Revolution
China’s vast estimated shale gas reserves may hold the eventual promise of lower-carbon energy—at least compared with the country’s current diet of coal—and freedom from the need to secure oil supplies from the...
New Book Lauds China’s Investment in Global Resources
Dambisa Moyo, a Zambian economist best-known for her argument against international aid to Africa in Dead Aid, has published a new book called Winner Take All: China’s Race For Resources. In a Youtube trailer for her...
China in Canada: Only the Beginning
For the National Post, Wenran Jiang, political science professor at the University of Alberta, is writing a three-part series on China’s increasing investment in Canada. In the past two years, China has invested $16...
China’s Nuclear Plant on Track
Following the Japan earthquake and nuclear crisis, China had suspended plans for nuclear energy until a new draft for nuclear safety was approved. There are now reports that China will launch a third generation of nuclear plants...
China May Approve Nuclear Projects After Revising Safety Rules
After the March 11th earthquake in Japan and the subsequent nuclear crisis, China had suspended its development of new nuclear energy projects, but there are reports that the plans to increase China’s nuclear energy...
The Green Leap Forward
For Foreign Policy, Christina Larson reports on China’s five-year-plan to lead the world in green buildings: In China, where fully half the world’s new buildings are erected each year, the reason the government is...
China Rations Power Use Amid Drought
A long-standing drought is drying up the Yangtze River and surrounding reservoirs. From the New York Times: As of Sunday, 4 medium-size reservoirs and 1,388 small reservoirs in Hubei had dropped below the allowable discharge...
China’s Looming Power Shortages: Blackouts, or Blackmail?
The Financial Times’ beyondbrics blog peers behind recent warnings of power shortages in China in the coming months: [Is] this a real threat? Or is it just sabre-rattling by power companies keen to secure from the...
China’s Energy Dragon Looks Tamer to One Forecaster
Scientific American reports on a new study by Lawrence Berkeley National Lab’s (LBNL) China Energy Group of long-term forecasts for China’s energy use: The LBNL forecast is the first such survey that attempts to come...
U.S., China Energy Use Predicted to Flatten in Coming Decades
A new study done by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory says that carbon emissions and energy for the U.S. and China will peak and level off in the 2030s. From Reuters: The forecasts, particularly for China, contradict...
China Rebuilds Its Power Grid as Part of Its Clean Technologies Push
In China’s bid to become a world leader in clean energy, it is finding that its power grid can’t handle the new technologies. The New York Times reports: State Grid Corp. of China, the country’s top electricity...
China Still Committed to Nuclear Power
As a result of the nuclear meltdown in Japan, China had suspended its new nuclear projects. (Read about that here.) Despite this, Damien Ma believes China remains as committed to nuclear power as ever. From The Atlantic: The...
Japanese, S. Korean Companies Team Up To Take On Chinese Rivals
Although the rivalry between Japanese and South Korean companies has intensified, they are increasingly cooperating in ventures abroad to prevent Chinese competitors from getting too far ahead. Read the article in Asahi here:...
Turkmenistan to Boost Gas Deliveries to China
China is preparing to sign a deal with Turkmenistan that will increase China’s imports of gas by about a third. From the AP: The deal means Turkmenistan’s annual gas sales to China will eventually reach 60 billion...
China’s Relentless Hunt for Energy
The Wall Street Journal blog looks at new strategies by China’s energy companies to expand their resource base to satisfy the country’s growing taste for oil: Energy consultancy Wood Mackenzie says diesel, gasoline...
Importing Coal, China Burns It as Others Stop
To feed its hunger for energy, China is now importing coal from countries around the world, including the U.S. From the New York Times: Traditionally, coal is burned near where it is mined — particularly so-called thermal or...
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