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Use of coal power costs Alberta $300-million a year in health expenses: Report

2013-03-27 14:38:34| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Globe and Mail: The use of coal power in Alberta adds $300-million a year to health expenses, a factor that heavily increases coal's true cost, a new report has found. Coal pollution also leads to nearly 100 premature deaths, 700 emergency-room visits and 80 hospital admissions each year, as well as triggering asthma attacks, the report said. Jointly produced by the Pembina Institute, the Asthma Society of Canada (ASC), Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment and the Lung Association, the report...

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