Back To Black: Germany Looks To Mongolian Coal To Secure Energy Future

Last Thursday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel signed a resource trade agreement with her Mongolian counterpart in the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar. Surrounded by a contingent of German industry leaders, the German delegates were eager to secure access to Mongolia’s burgeoning mining economy, specifically its coal, rare earth elements and other commodities, in exchange for German technology and skills to support local mineral processing operations.

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Questioners, often addressing him as “Mister Speaker,” solicited his thoughts on education reform (we should “radically shrink” the U.S. Department of Education, he replied) and whether global warming is a manmade phenomenon (“To be honest, I don’t know.”)

As an amateur paleontologist, though, Gingrich said he knew the planet was even warmer when dinosaurs roamed, and he said he doubted there was much industry emitting greenhouse gases back then.