Coals to Newscastle, not really.

Lots could learn from the Deep water Horizon Oil spill that occurred in 2010, when the BP struck oil at the Maconda Prospect and it leaked into the Gulf of Mexico. There was no telling how so much trouble could be made at the cost of a snippet of carelessness even by the ones who imposed the “Clean Power Plan” and it was quite a recipe for persuasion for states that are now substituting fossil fuel for other safer green power sources. Though the incident was powerless to prevent Petroteq Energy of Canada from expediting for wads of oil sands in the Asphalt Ridge in Utah and they really should've quit after numerous failures in the Middle East, South America, and Canada, just like all the other prominent oil companies even in the vicinity of Canada, where oil sands are typically called "carbon bombs" (The New York Times, 08/22/2018, A New Bet on Oil, and a Different Way of Extracting It, in Utah B1-B4). 

Since Orlando, Florida was one of those cities near the site of the incident, they are especially aware of the sincerity in the situation alongside California, more aware than the other countries, in fact. Statistics have shown that North America and Europe are doing well in plunging homemade fossil fuel usage on their own -- most countries have been doing well long before the Paris Agreement (Britain’s emissions, for instance, dropped one-third from 1990 to 2015) -- but the question is what on earth else are they doing with it (The New York Times, 09/06/2018, Trailing Carbon Footprints Across Borders B1-B5)? They are all too smart to resort to just gathering up all that petroleum power in huge piles and throwing it away into the ocean, thus, a second time, putting pollution where pureness should be. There are special cases for countries like China, India, Cambodia, or the Congo where petroleum is the current gold standard for the existence of electricity in such primitive regions. The Chinese buy it the way all the other carbon producing countries afford their fossil fuel, the cement and steel they outsource overseas, plus 23 percent more of their own per ton of steel which is twice as much as American or German manufacturers make. The richer countries are into the outsourcing of fossil fuel as much as the developing countries are and they have plenty of connections to help them advance it as well. Britain’s paid interest on global emissions is the steel used to make London’s skyscrapers and vehicles. Include that in Britain's carbon footprints and you'll see that Britain's emission have actually tip-toed upwards behind the rackets (The New York Times, 09/06/2018, Trailing Carbon Footprints Across Borders B1-B5). This is all conservatism that really could be used to contribute to the Green Climate Fund, a program designed in 2009 to set an alternative for developing countries whose one-third of economy is depend on fossil fuel, giving rise to another country-sized Christmas club for already developed countries to put their money into rather than just send good vibes. In the last decade and decades long ago, there were many Christmas clubs of this size and there were as many Ponzi schemes disguised just like it and the Green Climate Fund was one more program in which nobody should have counted their chickens before they hatched (The New York Times, 09/10/2018, Promised Billions for Climate Change, Poor Countries Are Still Waiting A10).

Top: Parch land in Bang Pla Ma district. Bottom: Flooded
streets of Handoi

The data provided by the program estimates that there are currently seventy-four projects approved for Green Climate Funding and enough money has been delivered to cover only three projects in Southeast Asia, worth $156 million in total, while the rest would be worth $904 million. The money was submitted through large development banks and private-sector enterprises and rather than the promised $10.3 billion, it came in only $3.5 billion per year. The Obama administration submitted $1 billion on a pledge of $3 billion. Since its cities are located in the red zone near the pacific ocean, and also since its collieries are expected to multiply in the coming years, it would be easy to imagine the same fate befalling Southeast Asia as Mexico. They know that somewhere down in places like Bangkok, Thailand, there are unwed teenage mothers in the child support hole and homeless scared straight with only an elm as shelter for a storm and there are people who are praying for a miracle to solve those things and yet Vietnam got its storm-proof shelters for the possibility of tempests in the area as part of a $30 million grant from the program (The New York Times,09/10/2018, Promised Billions for Climate Change, Poor Countries Are Still Waiting A10). Instead it's "If a bunch of kowtows on a panel in Le Bourget, France wants us to knock off the air pollution, so the world can breathe its fresh air again, no problem. Let's just stop producing our own and borrow a good many loads of petroleum from another party and if anybody discovers that our own load was left untouched and asks where the other one came from, we’ll have a reason convincing enough." Under the Paris Agreement, countries are held responsible only for the emissions produced within their borders. Maybe the BP weren’t such pros at keeping their backs covered but nobody can be charged for using carbon that wasn’t theirs to begin with and neither should those who needed it more than they did. So, yes, when you’ve got connections like those, who needs dump trunks or an over-sized Christmas club? Coals to Newcastle. You're better of having an huge plan that could've save the whole world gone up in a huge puff of carbon, not that it would be you're problem anyway (The New York Times, 09/06/2018, Trailing Carbon Footprints Across Borders B1-B5).

Top: The City of Pangakaraya. Bottom: Protest in Bangkok

Californians have been the fairer players. The previous year, San Francisco, California renewed its Bay bridge with material drawn, not from domestic manufacturers, but from an industrial Chinese mill. Next thing you know, California Governor Jerry Brown has enacted a new state law codenamed AB269, that sends LA taxpayer money to far better usage than more petroleum and more diesel. California’s new expenditures are building material approved under the LEED label by the U.S. Green Building Council: steel, flat glass, and fiber glass insulation (The New York Times, 09/06/2018, Trailing Carbon Footprints Across Borders B1-B5). They could’ve informed their contractors about this great new corporation called Climate Earth, figuring they should seek advice from them about how to find the right brand of goods for their supply chains. Their technology can do within minutes what it would take a thousand metal detectors to accomplish, detecting all usable material around the earth with one-third of an industrial average carbon footprint. The commission of steel and cement production on global emissions worldwide is 5 percent. One-fourth of the global carbon emissions pass through the carbon loophole each year. Because people from California are addicted to keeping their hands busy without getting them dirty just like how all countries are becoming addicted to carbon loopholes, it’s no wonder they called it the “Buy Clean” law (The New York Times, 09/06/2018, Trailing Carbon Footprints Across Borders B1-B5). Utah is home to the world's largest deposits of oil sands. Let's just trust the results of the Utah Geological Survey and say there's enough to fill a boatload of 15 billion barrels. Though the company has leased over 2,500 acres of land, the targeted amount is 5,000 barrels a day within three years but in an additional 25 years it will increase to 10,000 barrels. Environmentalist are almost certain that the whole project smells like another fool's errand. Remnants in the aftermath of the project could create an infectious airborne virus, left out in the open waiting to poison a hungry animal, or leach into the water. And during the strip-mining procedure, the topsoil could disintegrate into highly flammable dust. If it was snowing, the dust would stain the snow and combined with the absorption of solar heat, the snow would melt away quicker which equals useless water flow. Dirt-stained snow does melt away in the sun as quickly as a Popsicle in case you didn't know. The lack of proper water flow can assure unsuccessful farming or forest fires (The New York Times, 08/22/2018, A New Bet on Oil, and a Different Way of Extracting It, in Utah B1-B4). But Petroteq just gave them the head-shake and told them not to worry. Not like what they got out of the Deep water Horizon Oil spill. They were geniuses at figuring out loopholes for contingencies. The first step is to mine and crush the oil-saturated sands into smaller chunks. Second, the chunks will be picked up and placed onto a conveyor belt leading into a tank full of solvents to mix with the material and won't be left just lying on the ground for some animal to sink its teeth into it. Third, the solvents will be transferred to a second tank in which the oil and sand will be separated via a centrifuge. Finally, the solvents are discharged from the liquid and dispatched for reuse and you've got yourself oil as natural as maple syrup. The leftover sand that the oil was separated from gets hosed before it gets caught in the wind (The New York Times, 08/22/2018, A New Bet on Oil, and a Different Way of Extracting It, in Utah B1-B4). So, it can be agreed, contributing $30 million to Asian pacific countries like Vietnam and Southeast Asia where 93 million people live and where an economy worth more than $200 billion is ran is coals to Newcastle, but so is drilling for oil near the gulf of Mexico or in Utah. And when you're already knee-high to 30 percent of what it takes to see them through at least a decade, you might as well keep on carrying the coal, cause there's no turning back.