We've looked at the problems that
coal extraction faces.
To say that the violence of
coal extraction is inevitable is to despair of providing a description of the world as heading toward its redemption in Christ.
This new visibility is the product of so - called mountaintop removal methods of
coal extraction.
After all, legislation that restricts mountaintop
coal extraction already exists.
Probably far too complicated for this site, but the «costs» entirely disregards long - term costs - pollution, health problems (like
coal extraction workers), and, obviously, the trillions in expected expenses from global warming effects, both responding to and trying to mitigate.
«The «best practice»... is a clear exclusion policy on commercial lending and investment banking services for all coal companies who practice mountaintop removal
coal extraction,» says RAN.
CCS turns carbon dioxide into a liquid form of carbon, which oil and
coal extraction companies then pump into underground geological formations and wells and cap; millions of tons of carbon are already being stored this way each year.
The actions suggest the government is not interested in setting right the environmental and social injustices of
coal extraction, which Greenpeace's activists highlighted in Singrauli, said Ramana of Princeton University.
She believes that is why, on Jan. 11, as she was boarding a flight to London to talk to British ministers about
coal extraction in India, she was stopped.
Mining and ballads have gone together through the ages, from the early days of
coal extraction in Britain and Wales on through another standard I sing in Uncle Wade — Merle Travis's «Dark as a Dungeon» — and forward to Sting's tune «We Work the Black Seam.»
When I am confronted by the threats to the integrity of these aspects of the world, whether through photos of the Tar Sands, or reading about mountain - top removal for
coal extraction, or some other sight or story about degradation, I ache in a way that compels me to do something.
Many experts on China caution that most sources of data there should come with fat error bars, given past instances in which official estimates of activities ranging from
coal extraction to fish catches proved to be way off.
The industry touts the amount of potential energy that can be gained from a fracking well relative to its «small» footprint as a major advantage of the process over conventional gas wells and
coal extraction.
Pacific Climate Warriors stood in solidarity with German communities who are fighting the frontlines of
coal extraction with creative tactics and determination.
Thus, the NETL analysis concluded that there was little difference in the total amount of life cycle climate pollution between «U.S. LNG exports for power production in European and Asian markets... when compared to regional
coal extraction and consumption for power production.»
Why not compare
coal extraction and transport, oil extraction and transport, gas extraction and transport and the extraction and transport and processing of all the materials involved in the life cycle of a solar PV cell or a wind farm?
Germany has got rid of nuclear and is getting back big time to
coal extraction and coal powered electricity, for example.
Loans for
coal extraction are practically non-existent.
Despite being one of the world's largest markets for renewable energy, Germany has an extensive history of
coal extraction.
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Coal extraction is also more energy - intensive and destructive to the environment.»
Methane emissions derive mostly from landfills, agriculture (particularly rice farming), livestock, and natural gas and
coal extraction, while soot, otherwise called «black carbon», results from the incomplete combustion of fossil fuels and derives primarily from primitive cook stoves used throughout much of the developing world, as well as diesel engines and coal - burning power plants.
The federal coal leasing program is the source of 40 % of US
coal extraction, with major impacts on coal markets and carbon pollution.
The carbon tax on
coal extraction would be a net jobs creator.
Since 2004,
coal extraction has grown significantly in China.
While some of the political dynamics of the coal sector are very specific to Colombia, there are important lessons for transitions away from
coal extraction.
For example, even though Trump has vowed to bring back coal mining jobs,
the coal extraction industry is on its last breaths, primarily as a result of energy market forces.
At Arch Coal, the country's second largest coal producer, citizens will ask the company to end the damaging practice of mountaintop removal for
coal extraction; and, in the immediate future, spare the historic Blair Mountain from destruction.
In fact, coal companies would better concentrate on extracting methane from coal seams and sink CO2 there, staying in business without
coal extraction.
«These will not reopen whatever anything President Trump does,» explains BNEF, «nor do we see much appetite among investors for ploughing money into U.S.
coal extraction — stranded asset risk will trump rhetoric.»
Communities dependent on
coal extraction have been suffering from falling employment for many years, often even as production was rising.
While
coal extraction is a significant share of the Kentucky economy, the state is also a major manufacturer of automobiles, has a thriving agriculture and cattle industry, and is known around the world for its horse breeding and thoroughbred racing.
By law, MLPs can currently only invest in energy as it pertains to oil, natural gas,
coal extraction and pipeline projects.
Not exact matches
That includes not just
coal but also oil and gas
extraction, metal ore mining, stone quarrying and other jobs.
Likewise, any move toward using renewable energy sources will result in a quieter environment, as
coal and oil
extraction are extremely noisy labors.
I live in BC and have signed petitions against your President's plans to pillage your National Parks for the sake of
coal and oil
extraction!!
In cases where the resource will probably last for a couple of hundred years, on the other hand (as in Australian
coal, for example, at current
extraction rates), this logic may be less compelling.
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By: Donald Makhafola 16th March 2018 The best process for
extraction of
coal depends on the geographical and geotechnical information of the deposit, says Johannesburg - based multidisciplinary engineering consulting company GO Holistic Engineering engineering consultant Kevin Jacobs.
In other cases, the story is more nuanced: For example, oil and gas
extraction firms benefit, while the producers of petroleum and
coal products lose, echoing the tension between refiners and oil - shale producers.
He pledges to lower corporate taxes; support a fence on the U.S. southern border to improve security; repeal the health care bill; issue tax credits to students attending non-public and charter schools; support domestic energy production, including oil drilling,
coal mining and natural gas
extraction; and invest in creating alternative energy sources.
In addition, the
extraction of
coal, from West Virginia to Wyoming, devastates the physical environment, and its processing and combustion produce gigantic volumes of waste.
Natural gas produces half the CO2 emissions of
coal, but its
extraction is harder on the environment.
Rather, he argues, climate - concerned governments and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) should pool their resources and buy up the
extraction rights to
coal and other fossil fuels from so - called «third countries» that choose not to participate in greenhouse gas - reducing collectives.
The study by Miller and her colleagues is believed to be the first head - to - head comparison of
coal and shale gas from the resource
extraction phase through electricity generation.
Although natural gas generates less greenhouse gas than
coal when burned, when its total life - cycle emissions associated with
extraction and distribution are factored in, it does not seem much cleaner than
coal
It might be possible, for example, to impose an
extraction fee («severance payment») for
coal and oil taken from federal lands.
Another method for reducing methane emissions, whether underground or on tracks of surface mining, lies in degasifying
coal seams prior to
extraction.
Methane comes naturally from decomposition of plant and animal matter, and from man - made sources including the farming of ruminants such as cattle and sheep, and
coal or natural gas
extraction.
«Produced» water from
coal - bed methane
extraction releases underground water with high mineral content into watersheds.
Although fracking in the U.S. produces more than 100 billion gallons of wastewater per year, the process requires significantly less water per unit of energy than
extraction and processing for
coal and nuclear power, according to past research by Jackson and his colleagues.