Coal Plants in paradise

And the next coal plant goes here:

"The newest proposal will build the coal plant, as photos below reveal, on an undeveloped beach overlooking the Coral Triangle, one of the world's most biodiverse marine environments, with transmission lines likely running through nearby pristine rainforest that are home to several endangered species, including orangutans and Bornean rhinos."



The precise location is near those huts above, but here - this pristine stretch of unspoiled earth.



This is a micro-peek at a continuing escalation on your planet. Here will be a 300 MW coal plant. Many hundreds more like it are scheduled to be constructed in the next decade.




Tun Sakaran Marine Park , made up of pristine islands and marine waters, lies off the coast of Semporna less than 100 kilometers from the coal plant. ( Photo by: Yee I-Lann. )



More people than ever are aware that it is just one small planet that we live on. And that wherever we are, our demand for energy has global effects.
Hopefully, support for conservation - of both energy and unspoiled regions - will soon slow the fires of global destruction.




For more on this particular story, please see :

http://news.mongabay.com/2010/0520-hance_coal_sabah.html

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