Greenpeace have banded together with the anti-coal communities within the country of the Philippines, to demand a safer and healthier environment, as well as to urge the country's government to reverse all coal projects immediately.
As a way to support the movement, you may join the Anti-Coal Manifesto by simply signup Here.
Coal has been greatly known as the most polluting of all fossil fuels, and also is the largest single source of the greenhouse gas around the globe. Besides releasing heavy doses of carbon dioxide, burning coal will also releasing toxic substances that will affect human health.
View Coal plants in the Philippines in a larger map
As a way to support the movement, you may join the Anti-Coal Manifesto by simply signup Here.
Coal has been greatly known as the most polluting of all fossil fuels, and also is the largest single source of the greenhouse gas around the globe. Besides releasing heavy doses of carbon dioxide, burning coal will also releasing toxic substances that will affect human health.
According to wikipedia, environmental impact of the coal industry includes the consideration of issues such as land use, waste management, and water and air pollution caused by the coal mining, processing and the use of its products. In addition to atmospheric pollution, coal burning produces hundreds of millions of tons of solid waste products annually, includingfly ash, bottom ash, and flue-gas desulfurization sludge, that contain mercury,uranium, thorium, arsenic, and other heavy metals."Greenpeace Philippines - National Anti Coal Summit" webpage displays a map created by Google map, which shown that the coal industry's pollutants have the possibility to "cover-up" the country of Philippines as a whole.
View Coal plants in the Philippines in a larger map
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