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World Bank Loan will Fund More Coal Pollution and Greenhouse Gas

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Interview

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Sunita Dubey interviewed by Susan Galleymore

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Raising Sand Radio Contact Contributor

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March 27, 2010, 10:05 p.m.

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Notes: On April 8 the World Bank will vote on loaning South African energy parastatal Eskom $3.75 billion to build what will be the fourth largest coal burning power plant in the world. This 4,800 MW Medupi power plant will add an estimated 25 million metric tons of CO2 emissions per year to Eskomâs 40 percent share of South Africaâs overall total greenhouse gas emissions.
We talk to environmental activist Sunita Dubey about this loan and the growing world-wide opposition to it. And we hear what Eskom and bank officials are not saying: that there is no such thing as clean coal. If fact, from China to South Africa â where coal seams continue to burn in the ground long after mines have shut down â to India, where a major coal company will present investors an IPO later this year, coal mining and burning devastates land, communities, and people the world over.

For more information or to get involved, go to
Bank center information : bicusa.org
Friends of the Earth : foe.org/
Sierra Club : sierraclub.org/southafrica
groundWork : groundwork.org.za
Watch Sara Belcher's video report, UnderMined http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X97CY15vh7w

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