Sentences with phrase «brown coal under»

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Just one of those excesses is the wasteful use of energy, which if repeated would leave the country under a pall of filthy brown - coal smoke and make a mockery of any idea of restricting the world's output of carbon dioxide.

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.

By the end of the decade brown coal was used to generate 90 per cent of Victoria's electricity supply, with all of the coal sourced from open cut mines under SECV control.

[2] It held indentures for debts owed to it by brown coal gasification company, HRL Limited, [15] and remained the electricity supplier for the Portland aluminium smelter, under the name Vicpower Trading.