Sentences with phrase «cents per ton»

The alternative mining plan would have raised production costs for Arch subsidiary Mingo Logan Coal Co. by 55 cents per ton, about 1 percent of the expected per - ton sales price, according to the report obtained under the federal Freedom of Information Act.

I discovered the people harvesting the sugar cane with the hatchet and machete were being paid less than 80 cents per ton of sugar cane harvested and they were not paid in money, they were paid in vouchers that could only be redeemed at the company store.

Not exact matches

«One of the largest increases in cocaine seizures in the past five years has been observed in Ecuador, where the amount of cocaine seized rose by over 242 per cent, amounting to 50 metric tons in 2014,» the UN's International Narcotics Control Board wrote in its 2015 report.

On March 31, domestic lentil stockpiles were 434,000 metric tons, down 54 per cent from a year earlier, and dry field peas fell 34 per cent to an seven - year low of 1 million tons, Statistics Canada said in a May 6 report.

In the year ending June 30, production will drop almost 10 per cent to 17.38 million tons from 19.25 million a year ago, the Agriculture Ministry says.

According to Professor Nick Hewitt of the Lancaster Environment Centre, 40 million tons of CO2 is «equivalent to a 50 per cent reduction in current exhaust pipe emissions of CO2 from the entire UK passenger car fleet».

The technology installed at Chok Chai Starch helps the factory achieve a minimum of 80 per cent conversion of the organics present in the pulp to biogas (methane), treating a maximum of 370 tons a day of wet pulp containing 68,700 kg a day COD (chemical oxygen demand).

China's consumption will increase 3.4 per cent to 7.59 million tons, exceeding production of 6.79 million tons, the data show.

Beef and veal imports will jump 24 per cent this year to 825,000 metric tons, according to US Department of Agriculture data.

Walgreens offers these personalized bookmarks in tons of colors and styles, and the best part is, they're only 50 cents per four pack.

Dr Duan Biggs from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions (CEED) said the ivory burns and stockpile destruction had increased by more than 600 per cent since 2011, with Kenya burning a record - breaking 105 tons of ivory on 30 April, valued at up to US$ 220 million on the black market.

Current prices for allowances representing 2017 emissions rose 38 cents to $ 13.99 per ton, according to Dan McGraw, a senior market strategist for ICIS U.S. Carbon Markets.

A state analysis last summer said that cap and trade would increase pump prices 10 to 12 cents per gallon, based on the current auction allowance price of $ 12 per carbon ton.

But this is a performance car, and luckily, for those willing to dish out the extra 30 cents per gallon, you'll be rewarded with a ton more responsiveness and urgency in return.

That globally, over 260 million tons of plastics are produced every year, accounting for about 8 per cent of the world's oil production.

Because I ride a bicycle and limit my car trips, and I've curtailed my airplane travel, and wear sweaters (I know when I've set the thermostat too low when I can see the dog's breath in the living room), and because I've opted into our electric utility's «Pure Power» wind power program (they pledge to buy 75 % of your power from wind farms in exchange for raising your rate a few cents per kilowatt hour), my personal «Carbon Footprint» comes out at less than 4 tons per year.

As acids go, H2CO3 is relatively innocuous — we drink it all the time in Coke and other carbonated beverages — but in sufficient quantities it can change the water's pH. Already, humans have pumped enough carbon into the oceans — some hundred and twenty billion tons — to produce a.1 decline in surface pH. Since pH, like the Richter scale, is a logarithmic measure, a.1 drop represents a rise in acidity of about thirty per cent.

In March 2011, Barapukuria had a proven reserve of around 389 million tons of coal, and the company expects to extract 10 to 20 per cent of the total reserves through underground mining within the next 30 years.

The unit, BTU Western Resources Inc., bid $ 211 million for the Belle Ayr North coal tract, or $ 0.95 cents per mineable ton.

Whereas a five cent increase in the market price of gasoline might yield a 2.2 % reduction in gasoline consumption in the short - run, a 5 cent increase to the cost of gasoline due to the carbon tax, a level approximately equal to a carbon price of $ 25 per metric ton, generates a 10.6 % short - run reduction in gasoline demand.

A $ 42 price per ton of CO2 equates to more than 4 cents per kWh for a 100 % coal - dependent electric utility.

* since 2000, Europe has added 47 GW of new wind energy, but only 9.6 GW of coal and a mere 1.2 GW of nuclear * The carbon price required for large scale expansion in wind power (to 20 per cent of all US electricity by 2030) is estimated at $ 50 / ton

Researcher John DeCicco says that 36 cents translates to a $ 40 per ton carbon tax, that could be imposed to offset the environmental damage from carbon emissions.

A $ 20 per ton carbon tax would increase pump prices by about 18 - cents per gallon, estimate Roberton Williams and Casey Wichman of the University of Maryland, not a large burden in this day of $ 1.75 gasoline.

To get an idea of the end effect, a cost of $ 15 per ton of CO2 would raise gas prices by 10 - 15 cents per gallon.

Canadians should measure proposal like Redford's «40:40» — referring to a 40 per cent cut in the carbon - emission limit and a $ 40 - per - ton tax on production above that limit — by whether overall emissions will actually stop growing.

Although per capita emissions in 2008, at 0.32 metric tons of carbon, were three times those in Africa for 1950, they were still only 6.6 per cent of those in North America.

Early studies by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimated that a carbon tax of up to $ 80 per metric ton of emissions — a tax that might raise gasoline prices by 70 cents a gallon — would eventually result in climate stability.

The $ 15 per ton of CO2 «starter tax» mentioned earlier, equating to around 14 cents a gallon of gasoline, fits the lower end of that range.

Based on these numbers, the Keystone XL pipeline will enable no more than 175 million tons (Mt) CO2e / yr, assuming the pipeline operates at capacity 100 per cent of the time, and is always carrying oil sands product.