Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Clinton to unveil US funds for clean cookstove push

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N20177469.htm


So where are these people going to plug these stoves in at?
It really sounds to me like Hillary is trying to help a friend out who owns an appliance company.
More of the same bullshit waste of money that we don't have.


Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will announce on Tuesday a U.S. contribution of more than $50 million toward providing clean cooking stoves in developing countries to reduce deaths from smoke inhalation and fight climate change.

The U.S. funding, which will be spread over five years, is part of a Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves being started to combat a problem officials equate with malaria and unclean water in terms of their health impact worldwide.

Some 1.9 million premature deaths, mostly among women and young children, occur every year due to smoke inhalation from rudimentary stoves, which in many cases consist of a few stones and an open fire inside or outside a shelter, officials said.