Sentences with phrase «coal output last»

Coal output last year fell 2.5 % to 3.87 billion metric tons compared with a year before, while coal consumption fell 2.9 % in the period, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.

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Also, surging steelmaking coal prices last quarter, when coupled with record output, pushed Teck's profits from the segment up to CA$ 1.1 billion ($ 830 million), or 75 % of total gross earnings before D&A.

But the air quality has improved dramatically in the last 25 years (as it did in many other cities in the industrialized world), largely because of well - enforced government regulations, reduced industrial output, closure of coal - fired power stations, and the switch to central heating from coal stoves.

Last year, Chinese power output growth was the slowest since 1998 while steel production growth was also the weakest in more than three decades, aggravating a coal supply glut.

This is a continuation of the slide that coal has been on in the United States for the last decade, with the output of electricity from coal - fired plants falling 39 % from its 2007 peak to 2016.