Sentences with phrase «build coal export»

As with fights under way over the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada, and plans to build coal export terminals on U.S. coastlines, the new fossil fuel abundance is touching off a backlash among those alarmed by the consequences for climate change.

They are currently trying to build coal export terminals along the Washington coast for coal bound for Asia.

For example, companies have been seeking permission to build coal export terminals on the Pacific coast for several years.

The Yakama Nation and CRITFC also submitted comments to the State of Oregon's Department of State Lands on a state permit application to build a coal export dock.

Communities in Oregon, Washington, and Northern California have risen up to resist proposals to build coal export terminals in their midst.

We have successfully blocked every proposal to build coal export infrastructure in the Pacific Northwest, save for one: a proposed terminal in Longview, Washington, that is on its last legs after it was denied certification by the state's Department of Ecology.

Not exact matches

Cloud Peak Energy also owns rights to substantial undeveloped coal and complementary surface assets in the Northern PRB, further building the Company's long - term position to serve Asian export and domestic customers.

Native Americans have played the crucial role in this campaign to «keep it in the ground,» just as they were leaders in the successful struggle to block the Keystone XL Pipeline, the proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline that would have carried dirty crude across Canada to the Pacific, and the building of a massive coal export port on Canada's Pacific coast.

I am impressed with Mr. Obama's statement; I will also create a Technology Transfer Program dedicated to exporting climate - friendly technologies, including green buildings, clean coal and advanced automobiles, to developing countries to help them combat climate change.

If the USA had taken Hansen's advice back in the late 1980's and gone on a crash program of building next generation nukes there was probably a chance we could be exporting that technology now to China and India and it might have prevented the commissioning of many of the new coal power plants they are building.

If they're all built, U.S. coal exports would more than double from today's levels, according to developers» projections and federal data.

Companies are angling to build two export facilities in Washington State from which 100 million tons of coal would be shipped to China, Japan and South Korea a year — about the same as what the United States exports now from East Coast and Gulf ports.

It is also looking at building a large coal export facility in Oregon.

The second passed which called for a programmatic environmental impact statement to be conducted to study the potential impacts of building coal - exporting terminals throughout the Pacific Northwest, rather than one project - specific study looking at the Gateway Pacific Terminal project.

NCIG, which includes Peabody Energy, won a 2005 tender to build a third terminal at the world's biggest export harbor for power - station coal, beating a bid by Port Waratah Coal Services Ltd., owner of the existing two termincoal, beating a bid by Port Waratah Coal Services Ltd., owner of the existing two terminCoal Services Ltd., owner of the existing two terminals.

Greenpeace calls the technology a «false hope,» while the Natural Resources Defense Council cautions that CCS must be quickly developed in order to export it to developing countries like China, which has been rapidly building new coal plants with few, if any, pollution controls.

«That U.S. exports of LNG to China could end up being worse from a greenhouse gas perspective than if China simply built a new power plant and burned its own coal supplies.»

Located just two hours north of Portland, Oregon, along the Columbia River, the proposed terminal would ship a maximum of 44 million metric tons of coal from the Western United States each year to markets overseas, making it, if built, the largest coal export terminal in the country.

At present, Queensland is building Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) and thermal coal export facilities along its ecologically valuable coastline.

In recent years, coal companies have sought to quickly obtain permits to build export terminals.

Fred is deeply concerned about proposals to build the largest coal export terminal in North America near Bellingham, Washington, and the herring spawning grounds of the Cherry Point Aquatic Reserve.

And when Obama is ousted new coal exporting facilities will be built and old ones expanded so hold on to your coal stocks.

(3) Other cases are described on my Columbia University web site, e.g., Switzerland finances construction of coal plants, Sweden builds them, and Australia exports coal and sets atmospheric carbon dioxide goals so large as to guarantee destruction of much of the life on the planet.

The project would be the first LNG export facility ever built so close to so many homes, the first built in close proximity to Marcellus Shale fracking operations, and a potential trigger of more global warming pollution than all seven of Maryland's existing coal - fired power plants combined.

I don't really want to rehash our last round, but it probably is worth pointing out for readers that even the coal companies themselves say that the coal isn't going anywhere — and hence won't get burned — if the WA export terminals aren't built.

Proponents also include Peabody Energy, which would mine the coal for export; Warren Buffett, who owns the railway that would carry the coal; and SSA Marine, which runs ports around the world and wants to build this one.

Fossil fuel giant PetroVietnam is in the process of building the Long Phu 1 coal power plant in southern Vietnam and asked for international financial support from the U.S. Export - Import Bank (Ex-Im).

Another massive coal project proposed to be built near the Sundarbans, the Rampal coal plant, just secured financing from India's Export - Import Bank.

Though coal burning plants can not be built in the province, because of climate change regulations, this does not prevent the province from exporting coal.

SOCAR had informed its financiers, seven export credit agencies, that the company had shelved its plan to build a coal power plant of 672 MW in Aliaga.