{"id":1800,"date":"2016-01-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/master.k8s.p4.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/aboutus\/1800\/pipe-dreams\/"},"modified":"2019-11-23T21:54:46","modified_gmt":"2019-11-24T05:54:46","slug":"pipe-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/publication\/1800\/pipe-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"Pipe Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Datang\u2019s failed coal chemical initiative and the story of China\u2019s coal chemical sector<\/h2>\n<div class=\"leader\" style=\"font-weight: bold;margin-bottom: 12px\">\n\tIn this report, Greenpeace explores the development of China\u2019s coal-to-chemical sector and environmental problems of the industry. We look at the efforts of one such SOE, the Datang group, one of China\u2019s top 5 state-owned power sector giants, which had the ambition of building China\u2019s largest and most advanced coal-to-gas plants, and its most extensive coal chemical portfolios.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"407\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html#2023844\/33613753\" width=\"600\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>China has a need for gas. Richly endowed with coal resources, China has relied on the<br \/>\n\u201cblack gold\u201d for much of its energy needs, with 66% of its energy consumption coming from&nbsp;coal burning in 2014. However, rampant air pollution and other harmful environmental&nbsp;problems, coupled with the government\u2019s desire to diversify its energy resources, have led China to pursue other sources of energy aggressively.<\/p>\n<p>Read full report here:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-eastasia-stateless\/2019\/11\/ea2a5603-ea2a5603-pipe-dreams-final.pdf\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Pipe Dreams&nbsp;<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-eastasia-stateless\/2019\/11\/ea2a5603-ea2a5603-pipe-dreams-final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n\tIn this report, Greenpeace explores the development of China\u2019s coal-to-chemical sector and environmental problems of the industry. We look at the efforts of one such SOE, the Datang group, one of China\u2019s top 5 state-owned power sector giants, which had the ambition of building China\u2019s largest and most advanced coal-to-gas plants, and its most extensive coal chemical portfolios.\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":2522,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"not set","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"not set","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[18],"p4-page-type":[15],"class_list":["post-1800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-energy","tag-coal","p4-page-type-publication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1800"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2531,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions\/2531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1800"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=1800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}