Sentences with phrase «as plant closures»

Biomass, wind and other clean sources produced a quarter of UK electricity last year, government figures show, as plant closures reduced coal's share to 22 %

Not exact matches

As for the workers affected by the closure of the Gunsan plant, they will be sent to other plants.

Company officials have long insisted that the product is safe and healthy, and blamed the closure of three plants and roughly 700 layoffs on what they viewed as a smear campaign.

The closure of Hydro - Quebec's Gentilly - 2 nuclear power plant temporarily lowers Quebec's fiscal capacity, as measured under the Equalization program, which in turn lowers Ontario's Equalization entitlement over a three - year period.

Concerning base metals, zinc is expected to gain as the sector continues to balance its demand - supply deficit in the near term, following plant closures in 2015.

Brady said the hope now is that the closure of the plant, which had been not been used to capacity as sales fell, «may bring the opportunity to more fully use the capacity of the plant and bring more jobs.»

This deep - level understanding of the market system and identification of plant closure with retraining as the solution for a basic problem was spelled out by Pius XI in one of the classic documents of the social magisterium half a century ago.

But in some parts of the country a grass - roots movement of laid - off workers resisting the plant closures is exerting surprising pressure upon its own leadership, as the recent vote by the rank and file membership of United Auto Workers to defy its own leadership and decisively reject a wage agreement with Chrysler Corporation appears to indicate.

The plant closure devastation sweeps far beyond the traditional auto, steel and rubber industries; it affects such industries as timber, canneries, meat - packing, electronics, airlines, cosmetics and department store chains.

Following the closure of cold pressed juice company Juice Served Here, co-founder and former CEO Alex Matthews now tasked with the job of evolving the visual identity for Forager Project as the plant - based food and beverage brand's new chief marketing officer.

«We hope the company will detail these conversations and inform the community as to what efforts were made to prevent the closure of the plant.

Such extended seasonal closures would certainly cut into the plant's profits — according to Entergy, the plant's operator, they would cost billions of dollars annually — and if they were put in place over the long term, could mean the end of Indian Point as a going concern.

If the proposal to mandate season shutdowns starting next year were truly meant to cripple Indian Point, it would represent the boldest assertion of political muscle by Cuomo in the service of that goal at least since his first year as governor, when his aides reportedly informed Entergy that the administration intended to work toward the plant's closure.

While the PSC views the subsidies as a way to control carbon emissions as the state moves toward more renewable energy sources, critics believe the Cuomo administration, which supported the plan, was intent on avoiding the job losses that would have come with plant closures in the hard - pressed region where the plants operate.

WASHINGTON — House Democrats Wednesday cited plant closures from across the country — including the shutdown of the Dresser - Rand plant in Wellsville — as arguments that the Republican tax cut bill passed last year isn't bringing back jobs as the GOP had promised.

«After the scandals of lost jobs and plant closures private equity is getting the message that they are not the saviours they portray themselves as,» he added..

The announcement was paired with Cuomo administration officials set to testify before a joint legislative panel of lawmakers, including those who are skeptical of the plant's closure, its impact on the New York City area's utilities as well as the hit jobs and taxes will take in the area.

Now Tata is pointing to unrealistically low prices of Chinese steel as a factor behind the closure of Port Talbot plant, alongside high energy prices and the extra cost of climate change policies.

The letter hews more or less to the same script as previous missives sent by elected officials — including AG Andrew Cuomo — noting the plant's closure is harming not only the 305 workers involved, but also the economy of the entire region.

With four years to plan for the nuclear plant's closure, some of those reliability issues may be resolved as other electricity generating resources come online.

Currently, Buchanan receives $ 3 million in tax breaks as per a payment in lieu of taxes agreement, and Joseph Hochreiter, superintendent of the Hendrick Hudson school district, has said that the closure of the plant would negate a third of the district's tax base, and has therefore halted intentions to move forward on a $ 14 million capital improvement project.

He also urged the closure of the Reid Gardner coal - fired power plant north of Las Vegas and endorsed solar power as an alternative.

Even with the closure of their stomata, plants still lose water when it's hot, and hydraulic failure — a lack of water a tree needs to survive — poses at least as much a threat as carbon starvation.

The policy document also set new targets for the closure of coal - fired heating systems as well as the installation of equipment to reduce sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions at power stations, steel mills and cement plants.

This likely comes as welcome news to the workers at the Valenciennes plant, as France's auto manufacturing sector has been hit especially hard in the auto industry downturn in Europe, which has seen plant closures across the continent.

In a sign of things that might have been, Chinese children born after the closure of a local coal plant have found themselves with 60 % less development problems such as motor skill coordination than those born prior to the closing.

The urgency of an accelerated grid expansion has been underlined several times since last May by individual grid operators — as well as by the Federal Grid Agency, which warned that nuclear plant closures had brought the nation's transmission grids «to the edge of their resilience.»

As part of the solar installation agreement, Chevron will use 30 acres of the plant as a pilot demonstration site to evaluate different soil depths suitable for use at the closure of the mine in an attempt to show that shallower depths of one or two feet will still ensure no adverse impacts to the health of the local community and the environmenAs part of the solar installation agreement, Chevron will use 30 acres of the plant as a pilot demonstration site to evaluate different soil depths suitable for use at the closure of the mine in an attempt to show that shallower depths of one or two feet will still ensure no adverse impacts to the health of the local community and the environmenas a pilot demonstration site to evaluate different soil depths suitable for use at the closure of the mine in an attempt to show that shallower depths of one or two feet will still ensure no adverse impacts to the health of the local community and the environment.

There was some bad news for Drax recently as the UK government decided that biomass subsidies would not keep climbing as the «carbon price floor» — levied on fossil fuel production (and due to rise further)-- on electricity consumption has caused a backlash from manufacturers, consumer groups and energy suppliers who are concerned that the «tax will push up prices, make the UK uncompetitive and force the premature closure of coal - fired power plants, increasing the risk of blackouts.»

Complicating this is that unlike other power plants, nuclear plant closures are permanent, as there is no established regulatory process to reverse the decision, the NEI says.

In December, however, the North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) suggested in its 2017 Long - Term Reliability Assessment that power generation from natural gas — fired units and renewable sources such as solar and wind will provide enough electricity to offset closures of coal and nuclear plants over the next decade, at least.

As utilities plan for the closure of large, dispatchable baseload coal and nuclear plants, Michigan's system will be forced to rely on a smaller suite of energy options — specifically natural gas, renewables, and conservation measures.

To date, Ohio Gov. John Kasich has shown little concern for preventing the closure of his state's nuclear plants even as he supports subsidies for solar and wind.

5 Aug: Australian: Sid Maher: Land for carbon reforestation to take big cut But if the carbon price started at $ 47 a tonne, under a more ambitious scenario, the report estimates more than 60 million tonnes of carbon could be shed through plantation forests and carbon plantings by 2021... The modelling was released as Resources Minister Martin Ferguson named three leading corporate advisory firms to help the Gillard government negotiate a billion - dollar closure of a brown - coal electricity generator as it seeks to cut carbon emissions.

COAL: More coal - plant closures will occur in the coming years than originally thought as wind, solar and natural gas make up the difference, analysts say at a conference in Chicago.

The so - called «clean jobs» coalition members includes the Environmental Law and Policy Center, which accepts money from the natural gas company Invenergy, as well as solar and wind companies that stand to benefit from the closure of Illinois nuclear plants.

This week, the Central Java Coal Power Project added to its list of failures, as continued refusal by villagers to sell their land for the proposed coal plant has forced the Indonesian government to yet again extend the deadline for financial closure of the project.

Coal - fired generation in the UK is in freefall, and more plant closures — as expected by the government — will see this continue.

Of course, any change in the electricity generation mix will result in job losses in some areas, such as the closure of existing coal plants, and gains in other areas, such as new renewable energy resources and energy efficiency.

In October 2010 stated that the company was seeking to eliminate its «safety net» option of 2040 as a potential closure date for the Boardman coal plant.

Having long bemoaned of a «war on coal,» facing massive losses in share value, and the likely closure of many coal plants under the Clean Power Plan, the coal industry must be looking to Jeb Bush as a potential ally.

European power companies could save billions of dollars by stepping up closure of coal - fired power plants as nearly all of them will be loss - making in Europe by 2030, think - tank Carbon Tracker Initiative says.

This starts with investment and financing as well as support for nuclear plants at risk of premature closure due to our discriminatory subsidy regime.

In principle, the early closure of 5 coal - fired power plants raises power prices and must be regarded as anti-competitive.