Sentences with phrase «buy coal mines»

Now, you have no place to buy coal mines even if you want to.

«Why on earth would they buy a coal mine that would lock its ratepayers and the surrounding community into decades of coal pollution?»

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In 2011, it had bought out the mountaintop removal mining company Massey Coal from under coal baron Don Blankenship (recently convicted of conspiracy to avoid mine safety standarCoal from under coal baron Don Blankenship (recently convicted of conspiracy to avoid mine safety standarcoal baron Don Blankenship (recently convicted of conspiracy to avoid mine safety standards).

If a coal - burning power plant has several choices in buying coal from many nearby mines, it can easily avoid contract disputes with its nearest coal supplier by reaching out to alternative mines.

Yes, there are a few nooks and crannies that are neglected, like Russia and Brazil, industries that are deeply out of favor like gold, oil E&P, coal, mining, etc., but you have to hold your nose and take reputational risk to buy them.

So if the world moves toward a system for tracking emissions, who is responsible for a particular batch of carbon dioxide — the company that mined and sold the coal, the power plant that burned it, the consumer who buys the exported widget made with the electricity generated by that combustion, or...?

Jim D December 16, 2015 at 9:22 pm Steven, while buying out all the coal mines sounds good, how does it work in practice?

In one example from the report, government - backed Yancoa last year bought Rio Tinto's thermal coal mine operations in Australia's Hunter Valley.

Steven, while buying out all the coal mines sounds good, how does it work in practice?

[31] The company bought coal from established mines and sold it to homes and businesses in the Chicago area.

These programs support emissions - intensive electricity generators and the high - emitting coal mines to transition to a lower - emissions profile and originally included a buy - out scheme for the dirtiest coal - fired power stations.

So if the United States is buying the dirtiest stuff, it also surely will be going after oil in the deepest ocean, the Arctic, and shale deposits; and harvesting coal via mountaintop removal and long — wall mining.

Today, amid an anemic economy and joblessness far worse than official government figures admit, President Obama balks at approving the Keystone XL pipeline, cancels leasing and drilling on federal lands, tells our budget - sequestered military to buy $ 26 to $ 67 - per - gallon ship and jet fuel, punishes refineries for not buying cellulosic ethanol that doesn't exist, and happily lets EPA shut down coal - fired power plants and kill countless thousands of mining, utility and other jobs.

The refundable tax credits were intended to make Virginia coal cheaper for utilities to buy, and thus more competitive with coal mined in other states.

What WFA really did with coal was to manage contract mining and transportation of coal from member - owned mines and buy additional coal in the open market — facts printed on the inside cover of WFA's annual reports, available to all.

Industry officials insist that safety will improve as large Chinese coal companies like the Shenhua Group buy out smaller mines, and new technologies develop that can detect dangerous methane gas and automatically shut down mines.

Hard coal plants often buy their fuel from far away mines, while lignite plants are almost always located close to the mine.

Increasingly, Indian and Chinese companies are not only buying increased amounts of coal from overseas, but are also investing in mines or buying mines outright in Australia, Indonesia, Mongolia, Russia, South Africa, the United States, Tanzania, Zambia.

In fact, Tata bought a 30 % stake in two Indonesian coal - mining units for $ 1.3 billion in April 2007 in order to secure the coal resources for the Mundra plant.

So if the United States is buying the dirtiest stuff, it also surely will be going after oil in the deepest ocean, the Arctic, and shale deposits; and harvesting coal via mountaintop removal and long - wall mining.

Some audacious proposals have been floated for the U.S. government to simply buy out the entire coal mining industry, shut it down over a number of years and develop a program with transition payments, relocation assistance and job - training for workers losing their jobs.

So if you have a family history of a certain illness (like cancer) or work in a place where you are vulnerable to develop a disorder (lung problems due to working in a coal mine), it is a good idea to buy this kind of a plan before the tragedy strikes.