Mexico was once a climate leader—
now it's betting big on coal

Mexico gets Amlo, billed as a socialist but a far better US ally than Vicente Fox and company ever were, and we get José Bidet. A raw deal for sure. FTA: "In the past, Mexico has been a climate leader. It was the first developing country to deliver its climate action plan ahead of the Paris agreement, but such ambitions are now treated with crushing lack of interest by the government. 'The Paris agreement has zero relevance to anything they’re talking about in the electric sector right now,' said Jeremy Martin, vice-president for energy and sustainability at the Institute of the Americas."

Coal, oil and natural gas will burn even when all the wind turbines are frozen and there is no sunlight. Who could have foreseen such a thing? Perhaps the people we pay to foresee these things, such as the Department of Energy or all the thousands of "energy consultants." Drill, baby, drill!!!!

He's putting people back to work, oh the horror!!!

No. Mexico was not a climate leader. They got their “ambitious” climate action plan in ahead of the Paris Accord. That’s all. So this is untrue. In the past, Mexico has been a climate leader. It was the first developing country to deliver its climate action plan ahead of the Paris agreement, but such ambitions are now treated with crushing lack of interest by the government. Full stop. The leftist Guardian manipulating and linking to the United Nations and environmentalist websites. There’s no there here.

PS. What is interesting here is that Amlo is not about to be bound by some European “Accord” that was meaningless to start with and that could be harmful to his country and its economy.

#2 - Adding to that list - nuclear. But 3 Mile Island and such .....

Reality - 3 major new Natural Gas pipelines are being built so that Mexico can use the excess natural gas from the Permian basis. And, it is cleaning up the air along the border in Mexico and in Texas.

#6 says "3 mile island and such...." OK, how many people have died in nuclear power plant accidents in the USA, ever? ZERO. We had an accident in a gas fired power station in the KC metro area a few years ago that leveled the entire plant, and killed six or eight workers.....never made the news outside the KC area, totally forgotten today, and yet you remember an accident from the 1970s which killed NOBODY, and harmed no one, all due to anti-nuclear hysteria in the media. In the "massive, horrific Fukishima nuclear accident", due to a 9 level earthquake wiping out all systems on three 45 year old first generation Japanese nuclear power plants, where all three reactors melted down.....how many people died? ZERO. Including the "suicide team" that stayed on site trying to minimize the damage the entire event, weeks. The Japanese evacuated a huge area, something nearing 400 square miles. Of that evacuated area, other than an area of just a few square miles right by the reactor site - guess what level of radioactivity was is in the area ordered evacuated? About the same level of radiation that exists every day in Denver, Colorado due to the large amount of granite (which is mildly radioactive) around Denver. Denver is a fine place to live, but in Japan that same level of background radiation requires evacuation? Hysteria and fake "science". Look up the Linear, No Threshold hypothesis for estimating the harm from very low level radiation. The "science" on this is total BS, and there is serious evidence that the LNT hypothesis (not worth even calling it a theory) does not match reality. The "science" in nuclear radiation exposure at low level is garbage. The only fatal nuclear power accidents have been in the Soviet Union, where they had exceptionally poor safety designs for many of their reactors, and a lot of incompetent operators, too.

This severe winter weather is destroying the lefty greeny fantasies, with snow covered solar panels, wind turbines paralyzed, etc., while, clean coal and gas remain consistantly reliable.

Guardian - Leftwing loon rag, not worth posting this garbage viewspaper

You load sixteen tons and whaddaya get, global warming and the national debt, Joe Biden don't stop us 'cause we gotta sell, we owe our souls to the drug cartel.

Climate Leader? No bozo, Mexico spends all it's time protecting the cartels so they get their payoff's. Climate is weather, it just happens...Next Lie?

This story is published as people in Texas are cold due to frozen windmills and snow covered solar panels installed to harvest subsidies from taxpayers.

Were in NE Indiana and it’s been very very cold for quite a few days. Unfortunately our windmills are going strong. Why is that??

Smart move. Biden and liberals will likely shut down the coal industry along with the mines. Mexico can pickup the slack and export coal. Maybe those West Virginia coal miners can lean to speak Spanish.

Coal is a great fuel. Shame on the coal industry for not pushing the clean coal power plants sooner, but like steel and Kodak, executives who might have wanted to change for the near future, were not in charge. Say, on that Nuke thing, I wonder how many mobile Nuclear power plants are operating daily on and under the oceans of the world, thanks to the US NAVY? The answer is obvious, put the US NAVY in charge of a dozen new US land based Nuclear power plants. Their record is awesome.

Coal doesn't freeze up when you need it to make electricity.

Corrected (Reformed) headline: Mexico was once a 'climate leader' — but then they figured out that the Paris Agreement was a Con Job.