FOR power stations on the coast of China, it is often cheaper to import coal by sea from Indonesia than from mines in the interior.

对于中国沿海的发电站来说，从印度尼西亚由海路进口煤炭往往比从内地煤矿运购更划算。

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On the southern shore of the Baltic Sea, Poland plans two nuclear-power stations to reduce its dependence on coal.

在波罗的海的南岸，波兰正计划兴建两座核电站以减低对煤的依赖。

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Just over 45% of that came from power plants fuelled by gas from the North Sea. A further 35% or so came from coal, less than 15% from nuclear power and the rest from a hotch-potch of other sources.

这其中，约有45%来自使用北海油气的发电厂，35%左右来自燃煤发电站，不到15%来自核电站，剩余部分则借助了其他能源。

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And in Britain, plentiful North Sea gas propelled a shift from coal.

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Private equity backed 2Co wants to build a new coal plant above the Hatfield coal mine and pump the gas to North Sea oil fields where it can be used for enhanced oil recovery.

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