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A Chinese coal-burning power plant can be seen behind a factory in the city of Baotou, in the country’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. (DAVID GRAY/REUTERS)
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China to snatch King Coal’s crown
DAVID PARKINSON
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How fitting, just before Christmas, that we hear the world is reverting to a positively Dickensian state.
The International Energy Agency (an arm of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) said in a report Tuesday that by 2017, global consumption of coal – that same stuff responsible for London’s pea-souper fogs from which ghosts arose to haunt Ebenezer Scrooge – will be on the verge of supplanting oil as the world’s biggest energy source.
