Sentences with phrase «greenport electric plant»

Newfoundland and Labrador is constructing the massive Lower Churchill hydropower facility, and Manitoba is expected to begin building the Conawapa Generating Station, which would be the largest hydro - electric plant in the province's north.
Whoopee, a new coal port when solar power is now shutting down coal / electric plants.
Many of the aging residents, post — World War II transplants from Appalachia, are retirees from union jobs at Ford or General Electric plants and are now celebrating fiftieth wedding anniversaries.
In Black Mesa, Arizona, the proposal to construct six large, coal - burning electric plants and three strip mines meant that the health risks of air and water pollution would be suffered by a predominantly native American population, but the power generated would be distributed to distant urban areas.
Although the senior Jordan wasn't without a shadow in his past — he pleaded guilty in 1985 to having accepted a $ 7,000 kickback from a contractor while he was in charge of inventory control at a General Electric plant — as of Monday it appeared his death was the result of a random robbery.
More recently, there have been alleged sabotage attempts of electric plants, deliberate and politicised hoarding to induce shortages [5], and several US embassy staff have been expelled after being accused of making overtures to the military.
On Jan. 21, 2011, he visited the General Electric plant in Schenectady to stress the importance of new technology, particularly renewable energy sources that can be manufactured in America and exported globally.
Before his address, the president toured the city's iconic General Electric plant which is producing giant turbines — among other things — that are exported to nations as far away as Kuwait, India and China — a far cry from the light bulb filaments invented by Thomas Edison that put GE on the map in the late 19th century.
The plan was to join fellow Green Party candidate, gubernatorial hopeful Howie Hawkins, to draw attention to the pending closure of the General Electric plant in Fort Edward, a straight shot to the east from Funiciello's bakery, the Rock Hill Bakehouse, on Exchange Street....
The New York Power Authority said Thursday it would not be conducting its own investigation into the recent equipment failures at the Greenport electric plant, which caused a village - wide power outage last month and subsequent smaller outages.
The light burst dwarfs by several several hundred times the power from all of the world's electric plants combined.
They also lay their eggs near electric plant's intake pipes, fouling those systems for good.
If production continues as planned, over the next couple of decades natural gas could supplant coal as the leading domestic fossil fuel, serving as a cleaner way to heat our homes and fire our electric plants.
Similar conflicts are looming throughout the south and west, where efforts to protect the declining populations of freshwater fish, including salmon, sturgeon and the most recently listed species, the Californian delta smelt, are going to affect irrigation, the dredging of rivers and navigation, and projects to build dams and hydro - electric plants.
And from 1947 to 1976, two General Electric plants spewed PCB pollution into the Hudson River.
The intensity of Schroeder's concern impelled Peis to double his efforts on behalf of welcoming the Reichsminister, and he rounded up half a dozen Mercedes, Horch, and Opel Admiral automobiles to carry Speer from the railroad station to the Fulmar Electric Plant — or wherever else he might wish to go.
Since these dollars are not going into home building, coal - fired electric plants or auto factories, they end up in the stock market.
We already have a budget in excess of $ 50 million U.S. and with this we have to meet the civil service payroll, build roads, electric plants, water systems, schools and hospitals and all the myriad frills such as advertising, building statues, or museums.
Electric Beach is located next to the Hawaiian Electric Plant, known for the warm water and its rich abundance of sea life.
In the 1950s, Xcalak's economy was very healthy, boasting developments such as stone and wood construction, an ice factory, and electric plant, storehouses for large quantities of copra, grocery stores, a billiard hall, a movie theater, an ice cream factory, etc..
First up are the four multiplayer maps: Hydro: Located in Pakistan, this hydro - electric plant comes complete with a lethal spillway that floods with very little
: Located in Pakistan, this hydro - electric plant comes complete with a lethal spillway that floods with very little warning.
House of Mosselprom, decorated by Rodchenko, 1925, gelatin silver print, 9.8 x 6.4» ° Canteen at the Electric Plant, 1929, gelatin silver print, 6.12 x 4.8» ° Pryzhok s shestom (High Jumper), 1937, gelatin silver print, 5.12 x 6.12» ° Pine trees.
With a palette of otherworldly yellows and greens, the paintings depict the largest coal electric plants in the United States, all of which are sited in impoverished rural areas and shrouded in tree cover.
President Obama tours a General Electric plant in in Schenectady, N.Y., with GE Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Immelt on Jan. 21.
Last summer, he photographed six of the largest coal - fired electric plants in the United States in Texas, Alabama, North Carolina, and Georgia, translating these digital images into the materiality of oil and coal ash in acrylic paint on linen - stretched canvases.
A new apartment building rises high above a line of tanker trucks carrying diesel to fuel a thermal electric plant in Rio Branco, the capital of Brazil's western-most Amazonian state of Acre.
With the fish transportation conduit, fish populations might be able to get around hydro - electric plants without being killed by the turbine blades.
E. g. if the sunlight is collected in outer space by large but practical thin plastic mirrors, it can be directed to any place on earth, preferably near existing hydro - electric plants, so that it would not be necessary to greatly increase the existing electric grid, all without any really new technology.
Plenty of coal to run high tech civilization at least another hundred years even with substantial economic growth by burning it in conventional coal - fired electric plants and making liquid hydrocarbon automotive fuels from it.
Nuclear electric plants?
To the extent this helps us move away from coal - fired electric plants and oil dependency, I guess it's a good thing.
I did find it interesting that apparently this has lead to the killing off of a coal - fired electric plant in Pakistan.
Auxiliary generator: A generator at the electric plant site that provides power for the operation of the electrical generating equipment itself, including related demands such as plant lighting, during periods when the electric plant is not operating and power is unavailable from the grid.
No longer will new electric plants be allowed to endanger our health with unchecked carbon pollution and the climate change it causes.
This is a particularly interesting and unusual project because beyond the wind turbines it is to include from 3 to 10MW of solar (photovoltaic) collectors and a closed - loop mini hydro - electric plant.
Mann has an axe to grind with oil companies (they provide fuel for my car), Hansen has an axe to grind with coal companies (they provide fuel for the electric plant that powers my house and office), Lacis has an axe to grind with Bush Sr (He been out of office for 18 years)
2009 Total system levelized cost $ / MWh for electric plants entering service in 2016 (source: EIA, Annual Energy Outlook 2011)
China is expected to add the equivalent of a new 500 - megawatt coal - fired electric plant every 10 days for the next decade, according to projections by the United States government.
China, on the other hand, has emerged as a leader in developing clean, renewable energy, but its demand for coal is still staggering, and growing, and China is predicted to build 2,200 new coal - fired electric plants by 2030.
We can build more nukes, wind farms, geothermal electric plants, etc..
Major Environmental Issues: air pollution from heavy industry, emissions of coal - fired electric plants, and transportation in major cities; industrial, municipal, and agricultural pollution of inland waterways and sea coasts; deforestation; soil erosion; soil contamination from improper application of agricultural chemicals; scattered areas of sometimes intense radioactive contamination; ground water contamination from toxic waste.
And my real point in # 116 is how CAFE relates to carbon trading and why American taxpayers (or European or Australian taxpayers for that matter) should accept a system of cap and trade that provides subsidies for untold thousands of dubious projects such as building developing world hydro - electric plants that would have been built anyways, or that enriches untold thousands of individuals in cap and trade firms when a simple direct tax would accomplish the same goal more efficiently.
So in this budget, we're continuing to push for the transition from coal - fired plants to natural - gas electric plants.
I would add solar thermal electric plants in the Desert Southwest to the mix as well.
Smoke stack exhaust from a coal fired electric plant in the Ohio Valley deposits mercury in the lakes and therefore fish I catch in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness of northern Minnesota.
13The amount of coal distributed by State of origin and State of destination is reported on Form EIA - 6, «Coal Distribution Report,» for consuming sectors other than electric utilities, and on Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Form 423, «Monthly Report of Cost and Quality of Fuels for Electric Plants,» for utility coal by rank.
These problems result from the closure of a number of coal - fired electric plants in recent years in these states and the refusal of local politicians to approve new natural gas pipelines or local fracking for natural gas, in many cases for alleged climate «reasons.»
She has installed a small hydro - electric plant developed on a rushing stream in the estate forest.
For sure locally, Hank, just as thermal power plants (and even hydro electric plant impoundments, for that matter) and built - up urban areas also have a significant climate effect on a local scale, but I took David's question to refer to the climate system as a whole.
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