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As Japan's oil, gas, power use stalls, coal imports hit new record
2016-01-24 23:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Japan's 2015 oil imports fell to the lowest since 1988, reflecting the country's declining population and low economic growth while at the same time its natural gas imports fell for the first time since the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Yet in the same year that the world agreed to combat climate change, Japan's utilities continued to increase the use of the cheapest but dirtiest fossil fuel, ramping up coal imports to a record. Continuing a steady decline since the mid-1990s, Japan's crude oil...
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