Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (IMAR) energy base: Additional final report and recommendations

Woodrow W. Clark and William Isherwood

Utilities Policy, 2010, vol. 18, issue 1, 13-28

Abstract: The ADB authors felt that an additional set of recommendations were needed to the final Report. Two reasons guided that decision: one was simply that the planned and budgeted final presentation of the Report was to be made in December 07 in Beijing to high level members of the Central Government. That meeting was cancelled. No reason was given but due to the upcoming Olympic Games in August 2008, perhaps discussion of the energy issues in China were too sensitive. But the other reason for the need to state additional recommendations was basically to help support the IMAR government in its direction for the future. The IMAR Government throughout the two years of research for this Report were extremely supportive and actively following the presentations and data. It was obvious that they felt that the Report or parts of it, for example, helping the next Five Year Plan for all of China define what sustainable development was and was not. However there were other elements that emerged including strong support for new alternative energy business development, education in this area, and strong resistance to the IMAR becoming a pipeline for natural gas coming from Russia to China. In short IMAR and China did not want to become another dependent region on Russian fossil fuels. These issues and recommendations are built upon the ADB Report but did not become apart of it.

Date: 2010
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