New Indonesian industrial park on Borneo, feted as 'green,' will be powered by coal, report says
New Indonesian industrial park on Borneo, feted as 'green,' will be powered by coal, report says
An industrial park being built in Indonesia on the tropical island of Borneo that has attracted billions of dollars in foreign and domestic investment is damaging the environment in an area where endangered species live and migrate.
Coal once was trees.
Plants need CO2, so blowing CO2 into the air is helping the environment. /s
Indonesia is still lagging in renewable power generation. There are plenty of coal power plants brought online to meet rising energy demand in Indonesia right now, to the point of surplus. There are many new renewable energy power plants being constructed right now in Indonesia, but it'll take time until they're fully online, with the goal being 23% of total electricity production coming from renewable by 2025, .
My wife actually will be on a business trip to review safety procedure of a newly built geothermal power plant in the middle of nowhere in Sumatra next week, so at least that's one of the renewable power plants we know will be coming online soon.
If developed nations don't like it, pay the Indonesians for a greener source of energy. You have destroyed the world, colonized the 3rd world and profited immensely from it. Time to pay up.
The biggest problem here is that officials use their power to enrich themselves.
Another source from SCMP says Garibaldi Thohir is leading the consortium. While His brother is a minister in the government.
PT Kalimantan Industrial Park Indonesia (KIPI), a consortium of companies from Indonesia, China and the United Arab Emirates, is behind the US$132 billion project in North Kalimantan, which Widodo said will initially sit on 16,400 hectares of land on the island of Borneo but could be extended in future to almost twice that size. Leading the consortium is Garibaldi Thohir, CEO of coal mining giant Adaro Energy, owner of much of the land the project will be built on, and one of Indonesia’s richest people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_aid_to_Indonesia
We've been giving Indonesia billions for decades now mate.
What result are we getting? Entire villages being evicted and islands seized for Chinese companies to produce solar panel and an increasingly extremist conservative Islamic movement bringing greater repression to the many islands and peoples?
The Miyawaki method is an afforestation technique for cultivating fast-growing groves of native plants, with the dense, mixed planting intended to simulate the layers of a natural forest.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A vast industrial park being built on the tropical island of Borneo that has attracted billions of dollars in foreign and domestic investment is damaging the environment in an area where endangered animals live and migrate.
The environmental impact assessment commissioned by PT Kalimantan Industrial Park Indonesia, which operates a large part of the current development, describes what is happening in the 15,000 hectare (32,100 acre) area, where plumes of dust mushroom into the sky along the Celebes Sea as heavy equipment fells trees and razes paddy fields.
His wooden boat rocking as excavators and construction trucks roar nearby, fisherman Erwin laments the constant ship traffic delivering supplies to the remote area.
As demand for critical materials soars in the transition to cleaner energy, many countries are torn between reaping their natural wealth and meeting environmental goals, said Aimee Boulanger, executive director of the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance.
“In a world already living with climate stress, each of these countries is grappling with how to be part of the solution while also protecting clean water, healthy fisheries, Indigenous people’s rights and habitat for other species pushed to the edge.”
According to Market Forces, an Australia-based financial watchdog tracking climate finance, two major banks, DBS Singapore and Standard Chartered, have withdrawn funding for Adaro’s smelter project.
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