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+====Coal is declining globally==== |
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+**Buckley 5/16** ~~Tim Buckley, Director of Energy Finance Studies, Australasia, Tim Buckley has 25 years of financial markets experience, specializing in equity valuation, including as a top-rated analyst and as co-founder and managing director of Arkx Investment Management, 5-16-2016, "Coal Decline Steepens in 2016 in India, China, U.S.," Institute for Energy Economics andamp; Financial Analysis, http://ieefa.org/coal-decline-steepens-2016-2/~~ AG |
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+The global coal industry continues to reel under the inevitable triple pressures of excessive financial |
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+across China was down 6.8 yoy to 1,081Mt. |
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+====Plan causes shift to fossil fuels==== |
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+**Roston 15** ~~Eric Roston, writer for Bloomberg, "Why Nuclear Power Is All but Dead in the U.S." Bloomberg News, April 15, 2015, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-15/soon-it-may-be-easier-to-build-a-nuclear-plant-in-iran-than-in-the-u-s-~~ JW |
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+*ellipsis from original text |
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+Say what? The U.S. achieved |
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+to figure out nuclear if that envelope is to mean anything to us." |
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+====Germany proves coal shift ==== |
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+**NEI 14** ~~Nuclear Energy Institute, "Cuts in Nuclear Energy Mean Higher Electricity Costs, More Carbon Emissions," February 5, 2014, http://www.nei.org/News-Media/News/News-Archives/Cuts-in-Nuclear-Energy-Mean-Higher-Electricity-Cos~~ JW |
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+After the Fukushima Daiichi accident, the German government ordered eight of the country's nuclear |
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+ruled that at least one of the enforced nuclear plant closures was illegal. |
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+====Coal politics creates cycles of poverty – turning both the environment and humans into sacrifice zones – the aff creates more colonialism==== |
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+**Hedges 12** Chris, American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, and war correspondent specializing in American and Middle Eastern politics and societies. 7-20, http://billmoyers.com/segment/chris-hedges-on-capitalismE28099s-E28098sacrifice-zonesE28099/ |
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+There are forgotten corners of this country where Americans are trapped in endless cycles of |
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+AND |
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+the part of people who seek personal enrichment to destroy other human beings… |
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+====Radiation from coal plants is greater than radiation from nuclear plants==== |
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+**Hvistendahl 07** ~~Mara Hvistendahl, 12-13-2007, "Coal Ash Is More Radioactive Than Nuclear Waste," Scientific American, http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-radioactive-than-nuclear-waste/~~ AG |
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+The popular conception of nuclear power is straight out of The Simpsons: Springfield abounds |
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+AND |
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+, radiation doses were 50 to 200 percent higher around the coal plants. |
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+====Coal mining disasters disproportionately affect developing nations==== |
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+**Clark 14** ~~Meagan Clark, 5-14-2014, "Poor Working Conditions Continue To Plague Coal-Producing Developing Countries," International Business Times, http://www.ibtimes.com/poor-working-conditions-continue-plague-coal-producing-developing-countries-1584359~~ AG |
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+Coal miners around the globe are facing increasing pressure to feed emerging markets' energy demands |
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+part to replace nuclear generation deemed too dangerous following Japan's Fukushima plant disaster. |