Sentences with phrase «clean coal projects»

Perhaps we can get this Virginia prosecutor to go after the clean coal sector's research records on zero - emission clean coal projects, now that the persecution of Michael Mann has been suspended by a Virginia court?.

Clean coal projects depend on Department of Energy funding because banks aren't enthusiastic about making loans to back such expensive, unproven technology, Bloomberg reported in July.

Southern Company has been making a lot of the right moves in my opinion from abandoning the Clean Coal Project to looking to position themselves as a clean energy company.

As for the Kemper Clean Coal project the company decided to scrap the project and instead decided to turn it into a natural gas powered facility.

During January 2011 it was also announced that U.S. based Peabody Coal, China Huaneng Group and Calera Corporation agreed to pursue the development of a clean coal project in the Xilinguole Region of Mongolia.

Rud — I asked this previously — Have you seen any actual or estimated marginal cost numbers on Southern's Clean Coal Project?

FutureGen, a $ 1.5 billion clean coal project headed up by the federal government and private power companies, will announce the location of its cleaner power plant as early as Tuesday.

Earlier this year, the company abandoned work on a high - profile clean coal project, and Georgia regulators will meet this week to decide whether the utility can finish work on a long - delayed nuclear project.

The bad news is that such retrofitting is even more economically and technologically challenging than building a FutureGen clean coal project from square one.

Not exact matches

Its first step: a massive «clean coal» project.

Cuomo has pushed in recent years to adopt new efforts aimed at reducing emissions and shifting the state toward the majority use of clean and renewable power in the coming years, including an effort to close coal - burning power plants by 2020, promoting offshore wind projects and developing a clean energy standard to have the state on 50 percent renewable energy by 2030.

In a major blow to the government's plans to develop «clean» coal technology (where fossil fuels are burnt and the emissions stored underground), the company have postponed the project.

Yet John Thompson, director of the fossil transition project at the Clean Air Task Force, said Kemper still could open the door for CO2 capture with countries like Poland and India with low - rank coals, by lowering costs for the second generation of plants.

No «clean coal» technology has been demonstrated with carbon capture and storage and no large - scale sequestration projects have been undertaken.

«If we don't address the problem of coal, it's game over for climate change,» says John Thompson, director of the coal transition project for the Clean Air Task Force.

Environmentalists, many of whom believe that the term «clean coal» is an oxymoron, nonetheless view the project's cancellation as yet another indication that the Bush administration lacks the commitment required to reduce the rate of growth in atmospheric carbon dioxide emissions.

A new analysis by the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank in Washington, D.C., found that since the inception of clean coal programs aimed at capturing CO2 earlier this decade, $ 3.5 billion has been spent by private companies to develop the technology via 18 projects — just a fraction (1/17) of their profits in 2007 alone, according to researcher Daniel Weiss.

Currently, there are five coal - fired power plants registered as emission reduction projects under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), an international offsetting program run by an arm of the United Nations.

His behind - the - scenes maneuvering is likely to result in a bill that provides more money for clean - coal projects and assistance to industry than the House version, say insiders.

The MPs want more FGD to be used, and call on the government to support clean coal demonstration projects.

Reduced spending for «clean coal» research The White House spending plan cuts funding for DoE's fossil - energy program, directing funds toward «clean coal» projects and eliminating spending for oil technology research.

The Canadian government has awarded C$ 285m (# 165m) to a flagship «clean coal» gasification project that promises to burn coal without extracting it from the ground.

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There is not a single similar institution in the U.S. — oh, you might point to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, managed jointly by Bechtel and Battelle (oil pipelines and «clean coal» - FutureGen projects), but they get their funding slashed every year, more or less — and they cancelled their most promising biofuel program, algal biofuel, back in 1997 — good luck with that.

You ask me, and individuals should get at least a 50 % tax break on residential solar projects, and businesses should get a huge property and income tax break for investing in green energy (and by this I mean wind, solar, and hydro...» clean coal» is a farce).

The two presidents pledged to promote cooperation on cleaner uses of coal, including large - scale carbon capture and storage (C.C.S.) demonstration projects.

The E.C.P. will include collaborative projects on renewable energy, smart grid, clean transportation, green building, clean coal, combined heat and power and energy efficiency.

Organizations that are publicizing the hydro - geological report (Earthjustice, the Environmental Integrity Project, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy and Tennessee Clean Water Network) said that the failed TVA pond had been built using coal ash as a construction material, and that some of the other existing impoundments were constructed in a similar manner.

The presidents welcomed: (i) a grant from the U.S. Trade and Development Agency to the China Power Engineering and Consulting Group Corporation to support a feasibility study for an integrated gasification combined cycle (I.G.C.C.) power plant in China using American technology, (ii) an agreement by Missouri - based Peabody Energy to invest and participate in GreenGen, a project of several major Chinese energy companies to develop a near - zero emissions coal - fired power plant, (iii) an agreement between G.E. and Shenhua Corporation to collaborate on the development and deployment of I.G.C.C. and other clean coal technologies; and (iv) an agreement between AES and Songzao Coal and Electric Company to use methane captured from a coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissicoal - fired power plant, (iii) an agreement between G.E. and Shenhua Corporation to collaborate on the development and deployment of I.G.C.C. and other clean coal technologies; and (iv) an agreement between AES and Songzao Coal and Electric Company to use methane captured from a coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissicoal technologies; and (iv) an agreement between AES and Songzao Coal and Electric Company to use methane captured from a coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissiCoal and Electric Company to use methane captured from a coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissicoal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The report, «Closing the Floodgates: How the Coal Industry is Poisoning Our Water and How We Can Stop It,» was released by the Environmental Integrity Project, The Sierra Club, Clean Water Action, Earthjustice and Waterkeeper Alliance.

Then came «Coal 21», a 21 - company voluntary levy promising $ 1 billion of «clean coal» projects but in five years spent barely a tenth as much, and that on the easy, paper end of the gCoal 21», a 21 - company voluntary levy promising $ 1 billion of «clean coal» projects but in five years spent barely a tenth as much, and that on the easy, paper end of the gcoal» projects but in five years spent barely a tenth as much, and that on the easy, paper end of the game.

«The people of Washington have spoken mdash; this project poses too much of a threat to our clean air, clean water and rapidly changing climate,» said Cesia Kearns, Deputy Campaign Director for the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campaign.

Europe Beyond Coal is an alliance of civil society groups working to catalyse the closures of coal mines and power plants, prevent the building of any new coal projects and hasten the just transition to clean, renewable energy and energy efficieCoal is an alliance of civil society groups working to catalyse the closures of coal mines and power plants, prevent the building of any new coal projects and hasten the just transition to clean, renewable energy and energy efficiecoal mines and power plants, prevent the building of any new coal projects and hasten the just transition to clean, renewable energy and energy efficiecoal projects and hasten the just transition to clean, renewable energy and energy efficiency.

is an alliance of civil society groups working to catalyse the closures of coal mines and power plants, prevent the building of any new coal projects and hasten the just transition to clean, renewable energy and energy efficiency.

In addition to generating some 113 MW of clean, renewable electricity — enough to supply at least 40,000 homes — bringing the project to fruition will result in the avoidance of some 300,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions as compared to coal - fired power generation

The astonishing fact is that most CDM credits are made up of «clean coal» project credits.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in China last week reiterated Australia's support for joint research projects on clean coal with China.

Twenty million will go to education and retraining coal workers, while the other $ 35 million will support the development of clean energy and energy efficiency projects.

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350 uses online campaigns, grassroots organizing, and mass public actions to oppose new coal, oil and gas projects, take money out of the companies that are heating up the planet, and build 100 % clean energy solutions that work for all.

Update: The FutureGen Alliance, the industry group behind the «clean coal» project just named Mattoon, Ill. as the site for the plant.

Reduce dependency on (imported) fossil fuels (balance of payments, reliance on potentially unfriendly or unstable nations as suppliers, high cost at the pump, all problems as seen from US viewpoint): — encourage nuclear power generation (cut red tape)-- encourage energy savings and improved efficiency projects (tax breaks)-- encourage basic research into new (non fossil fuel) resources (subsidies)-- encourage imports from friendly neighbor, Canada (Keystone pipeline)-- encourage local oil and gas exploration («drill, baby, drill»)-- encourage «clean coal» projects (tax incentives)-- set goal to become energy independent within ten years

U.S. spending on big, near - commercial technology projects in other countries, such as full - scale clean coal plants in China, should be approached cautiously, as it is likely to raise political ire.

-- Instruct the new Energy Secretary to work with oil and gas industry to put together and implement an energy independence plan, with the clear goal of making the USA a net exporter of energy products within four years, at the same time creating millions of new jobs — Instruct the EPA Director to work with coal burning companies to encourage «clean coal» projects (eliminating pollution), by offering tax incentives for those who invest in these projects — Instruct the new Energy Secretary to set up a special task force to encourage the expansion of nuclear power and ease the permit procedure for new or expanded plants, with the goal of increasing nuclear power generation from 20 % to 25 % within four years

The concept of «clean coal» was dealt a significant blow as Southern Company announced last week that it was suspending its coal gasification project in Mississippi.

The Washington Post provided a list of failed government energy projects that included the Clinch River Breeder Reactor, the Synthetics Fuel Corporation, the hydrogen car, and «clean coal» to remove carbon dioxide emissions from burning coal and sequestering them.

Aaron, the efficiency reduction is more like 30 % than 15, based on projects cited in my previous guest post here clean coal.

From the very beginning, the story of utility giant Southern Company's Kemper clean coal plant is a long trail of broken promises, according to a New York Times investigation — and the project's numerous critics.

In late, January 2008, Burgeson arranged for a meeting the following month between Barbour, Bodman, and officials of Southern Company and Mississippi Power to discuss moving a federally - funded «clean coal» project from Orlando, Florida to a remote corner of eastern Mississippi.

They do give lip service to «clean energy» but if you follow the money to the $ 2 billion coal FutureGen project, what do you find?