April 4, 2007 by Walter Schneider.

The Standard (Hong Kong)

Hong Kong ship owners are pushing for a global switch to cleaner-burning distillates from high-sulfur marine fuels to reduce pollution and minimize engine damage, a top industry official said Tuesday….

“We have a great opportunity to get out of burning dirty fuel - a switch to distillates with a 1 percent sulfur cap will help simplify and clean up our engine rooms,” Bowring said.

More than 90 percent of the world’s trading fleet runs on high-sulfur residual fuels, which cause significant pollution….(Full Story)

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Note by folc.ca:
A one-percent sulphur cap would cut the sulphur content in marine diesel to be no higher than about half of what it currently is, but that would still keep the sulphur content of marine diesel fuel to be 667 times higher than that in diesel fuel used for highway traffic in North America. One should be forgiven for believing that bunker fuel is used as a convenient means to dispose of sulphur and to pollute the environment in the process of sulphur dispersion by means of emitting massive amounts of sulphur-dioxide into the atmosphere.

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April 4, 2007 by Walter Schneider.

The Pensacola News Journal

Gulf Power puts up $500 million for cleaner air

CRIST - Described as its largest environmental project, Gulf Power revealed plans Tuesday to install a $500 million scrubber to remove nearly all sulfur dioxides generated by its Crist Plant….

Hutchinson said the half- billion-dollar cost of the scrubber’s installation will be recovered through a rate increase, but he would not speculate on the impact it will have on the average residential or commercial customer….(Full Story)

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