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A Burst of Green Power Courtesy of the World Bunk!

Posted on August 12, 2008

Once the new Tata Ultra Mega power plant in western India is fired up in 2012 and fully operational, it will become one of the world's 50 largest greenhouse-gas emitters. And the World Bank is helping make it possible. A year after World Bank President Robert Zoellick pledged to significantly step up our assistance in fighting climate change, the development institution is increasing its financing of fossil-fuel projects around the globe.The $4.14 billion, coal-powered Ultra Mega plant will emit more carbon dioxide annually than the nation of Tunisia. Robert Zoellick ...

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