Sentences with phrase «coal and gas exports»

It makes a mockery of Queensland's emission reduction targets if expansion of coal and gas exports outweighs the climate benefit of meeting those targets.

Coal and gas exports could be replaced by exporting solar generation to Asia via an undersea cable.

Not exact matches

President Trump is focusing not just on energy independence, but what he calls «energy dominance,» vowing to «unleash» American natural gas and coal exports on the world.

Price difference makes profitable to export cheaper hydro power from the Nordic market to Germany, which relies more on coal and gas to generate power.

If Carney is right, this will add to pressure on the Canadian dollar by slashing oil, gas and coal exports even further.

But ask a Canadian politician, and you'll likely hear a drum beat of talking points about China's voracious energy appetite and the imperative to ramp up our oil, gas, and coal exports.

Higher use of oil and gas in transport, heating and industry would lead EON and RWE to export its surplus energy from coal, gas, and nuclear to other European markets that are lagging behind.

Admittedly we are a net importer of oil (increasingly so as Bass Strait reserves diminish), but Australian entities make large exports of natural gas and thermal coal, whose prices are highly correlated with oil prices over time.

More than a third of the oil, gas and coal production and more than 10 % of hydroelectric power exported to the United States.

Unlike with natural gas, coal - export facilities are already up and running.

Even as the US market for coal appears to be declining (first due to market pressure from cheaper natural gas and now EPA GHG rules), US exports of its coal abroad has been a sore spot.

Those existing ports include Abbot Point, where India's Adani Group and compatriot GVK plan a huge coal terminal expansion, and Gladstone, where ship traffic is set to increase sharply from 2015 as huge new liquefied natural gas plants start exports.

Fossil - fuel exports of all stripes — Coal exports have been trending into record - high territory for the past few years, the Obama administration is decidedly bullish on exporting natural gas, and exports of refined petroleum products continue to be among the leaders across the board.

Significant exports of U.S. liquefied natural gas could do two things — first, they would help to slow a shift back to coal in Europe and Japan.

Updated below, 12:51 p.m. A comprehensive and sobering Associated Press story by Dina Cappiello provides a valuable update on how United States policies promoting exports of coal are undercutting domestic efforts to restrict emissions of carbon dioxide, the heat - trapping gas released when fossil fuels are burned.

Factor in the «carbon light» CO2 from coal seam gas projects in the East (and other LNG expansion in the north and west) and you're talking about Australia's fossil fuel emission exports equating to TWO Saudi Arabias by 2020, not one as I've been saying to many disbelieving ears.

The 237 - page bill introduced by U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R - AK)-- S. 2012, the Energy Policy Modernization Act of 2015 — includes provisions that would expedite the liquefied natural gas (LNG) export permitting process, heap subsidies on coal technology, and fund research geared toward discovering a way to tap into methane hydrate reserves.

The emissions from our exports of coal, gas and oil are counted in the country where they burned.

This future development concept would replace the demonstrably worst case path the nation is now on of export coal and liquid natural gas — both highly - damaging sunset industries.

Two full decades of anthropogenic climate change being established science and Australia's policy focus is fully on maximum expansion of coal and gas extraction and export with some ineffectual climate «policies» to distract and pacify public concerns.

As mentioned in the press release:» -LRB-...) these groups released a briefing titled «Dirty Dozen: How Public Finance Drives the Climate Crisis through Oil, Gas, and Coal Expansion», highlighting fossil fuel projects by the World Bank Group, other multilateral and national development banks and export credit agencies.

New coal mines and gas wells are a particular concern since most, if not all, coal and gas from NEW extraction projects will be exported.

Weiss said that, while natural gas burns cleaner, the NETL study concluded that the end - to - end emissions involved in moving U.S. natural gas to an LNG export facility, then liquefying it, then shipping it across the ocean, then de-liquefying it, and shipping it to users in other countries, would be as energy and emissions intensive, or more, than using regionally produced coal — i.e., because of the LNG export supply chain, it has no advantage over coal.

In per - capita terms Australia has among the highest greenhouse gas emissions in the world, yet the Australian Turnbull Government is resisting efforts to reduce those emissions and is trying to increase the amount of coal mining, coal burning and coal exporting.

The switch has been driven by falling coal prices as Asian demand has slowed, the US has replaced some coal with shale gas and mining capacity has expanded in top exporting nations like Indonesia and Australia.

At the tail end of the hearing, Sen. Landrieu asked Weiss about the contention that there is little difference in greenhouse gas emissions between regionally produced coal in Europe and Asia and use of U.S. - exported LNG.

At the same time, higher domestic gas prices drove higher coal use in the power sector and higher international coal prices boosted exports and revenues for coal companies.

A coal - export terminal proposed in Washington state would increase cancer risks for some residents, make rail accidents more likely and add millions of metric tons of climate - changing greenhouse gas globally every year, according...

If all new coal and gas extraction projects are slated for export, why do state and territory governments even consider allowing new fossil fuel extraction projects despite the climate imperative of keeping fossil fuels in the ground, and despite often fierce community opposition?

The Trump administration is considering forming «a new, central institution» to advocate for natural gas and coal technology and exports, according to a document E&E News obtained from an administration source.

«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.»

Such as quickly phasing out all coal power generation, mining and exports and replacing it with gas turbines for a massive emmisions saving.

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

Exporting Australia's natural gas to energy - hungry Asia can help replace coal - fired power in China, Japan and South Korea and create export earnings for Australia.

• Support for energy innovation today comes from those concerned about the high (and rising) economic costs, not to mention the foreign entanglements created by America's dependence on oil; the need for greater energy access in poor countries; diseases and deaths caused by air pollution, oil and gas drilling, and coal mining and waste; and the potential for America to manufacture and export new energy technologies at a profit.

We also tackle some of the more vexing questions, like whether British Columbia ports have the capacity to handle the export proposals, and whether US coal exports add to global greenhouse gas emissions.

[3] However, this comparison ignores the unknown degree of methane leakage from both the gas and the coal systems, the export of displaced coal that is then burned abroad, and cogeneration's potential displacement of some carbon - free generation.

Between 2003 and 2013, members of the OECD export credit group have given over 71.5 billion to oil and gas projects, five times more than to coal.

In response to campaigns launched by climate activists to impose regulations and controls on U.S. exports of coal, liquefied natural gas and oil, corporate trade lawyers and dirty energy apologists are insisting that government controls on fossil fuel exports are illegal under international trade and investment law.

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That means that export credit agencies must immediately stop financing all coal, oil and gas projects to avert the worst impacts of climate change.

«Global warming is fueled by oil, coal, and natural gas exports.

Shale: new production economics, regions, and technology Imminent LNG Export: Significant volumes, long timeline Coal - fired Power Replacement: Gradual, large, predictable Liquids: rising gas production as an oil and NGL byproduct

Environment groups said the Opposition Leader, Kevin Rudd, needed to explain how he would curb rising greenhouse gas emissions at a time when Queensland and NSW were dramatically boosting coal exports and several states were approving big road and power projects that would increase climate change pollution.

Not only is the U.S. gearing up to export both oil and gas, it is also a major coal exporter, helping to crash prices there, too, and to bring affordable fossil fuel to the world.

He lives in Idaho and said their number, 0.05 kg / kWh, is misleading because they export their hydroelectricity and import coal and natural gas.

ENERGY OVERVIEW Energy Minister: Ernesto Martens Rebolledo Head of PEMEX: Raul Munoz Leos Proven Oil Reserves (1 / 1 / 03E): 12.6 billion barrels (see Reserves and Production) Oil Production (2002E): 3.6 million barrels per day (bbl / d), of which 3.18 million bbl / d was crude Oil Consumption (2002E): 1.93 million bbl / d Net Oil Exports (2002E): 1.68 million bbl / d Crude Oil Refining Capacity (1 / 1 / 03E): 1.7 million bbl / d Natural Gas Reserves (1 / 1 / 03E): 8.8 trillion cubic feet (Tcf)(see Reserves and Production) Natural Gas Production (2000E): 1.33 Tcf Natural Gas Consumption (2000E): 1.38 Tcf Recoverable Coal Reserves (2000E): 1.3 billion short tons Coal Production (2000E): 10.86 million short tons Coal Consumption (2000E): 13.41 million short tons Net Coal Imports (2000E): 2.55 million short tons Electric Generation Capacity (2000E): 38.9 million kilowatts Net Electricity Generation (2000E): 194.37 billion kilowatthours (bkwh); 74 % thermal, 18 % hydro, 5 % nuclear, 3 % other Net Electricity Consumption (2000E): 182.8 bkwh Net Electricity Imports (2000E): 2.07 bkwh

Major Producing Natural Gas Fields: Urengoy, Yamburg, Medvezh, Orenburg, Severo Urengoy, Vyngapurov Major Natural Gas Export Pipelines outside the Commonwealth of Independent States (Capacity): Brotherhood (Bratrstvo), Progress, and Union (Soyuz)(to Europe, via Ukraine)(1 Tcf each); Northern Lights (0.8 Tcf)(to Europe, via Belarus and Ukraine), Volga / Urals - Vyborg (to Finland)(0.1 Tcf); Yamal (to Europe, via Belarus)(1.0 Tcf); Blue Stream (0.56 Tcf)(to Turkey, under construction) Major Coal Producing Basins: Chelyabinsk, Kansk - Achinsk, Kuznetsk, Lena, Moscow, Pechora, Raychikhinsk, South Yakutia, Taymyr, Zyryanka

Dirty energy lobbyists, including those of Chevron, could effectively use hypothetical arguments of TTIP illegality to chill government action on both sides of the Atlantic to curtail hydraulic «fracking» for natural gas, deny permits for liquefied natural gas export terminals, close coal - fired power plants, and prohibit new coal mining, oil drilling, and oil / gas pipeline operations, among others.

As the market for coal - fired electricity generation here in North America shrinks due to the rise of cheap natural gas - fired power (thanks to fracking for shale - gas), exports of coal from the US to overseas markets in Europe and Asia are sharply increasing.