Sentences with phrase «coal companies made»

The oil and coal companies made sure everyone knew about the costs of action.

The oil and coal companies make this possible.

At the same time, another climate drama is playing out with much less attention as coal companies make plans to export huge quantities to Asia by way of Pacific Northwest ports.

Not exact matches

Chinese engineering companies, banks and shipyards are all muscling into LNG, typically the preserve of Western, Japanese and South Korean players, as government coal - to - gas switching policies make LNG an increasingly strategic fuel.

Many utilities can generate power using either coal or natural gas, so if the latter's price gets cheap enough — typically below $ 4.50 per MCF — power companies will make the switch.

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 cCompany 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 companycompany.

But he said moving to meet climate targets is becoming more affordable because while policy is still important the energy market is transforming so fast that «market forces have taken over», market forces around wind and solar power and batteries «are just accelerating regardless of what anyone else does» and decisions by companies like AGL Energy to close their Liddell coal power station «are being made on economic grounds».

Plaintiffs would go after easy targets and companies like Whitehaven Coal — which are already in the sights of climate activists — and other companies that resisted the need to change the way they do business to help slow man - made global warming or funded climate sceptics could be vulnerable.

Coal had made me money but companies in the industry had fallen on hard times due to low natural gas prices and environmental regulations.

Met coal made up nearly 40 % of the company's coal revenues in 2016, but has historically been a larger contributor because steelmaking coal usually trades at a large premium to thermal coal.

Glasgow, Scotland (CNN)- Robert Marshall is the burly, landlord of The Louden Tavern, a pub located in the west end of the Scottish city of Glasgow, on the south bank of the same Clyde River that was once used to ferry coal and steel to the great shipbuilding companies that in the past made this area an industrial powerhouse.

Echoes of «keep it in the ground» One former official interpreted Obama's remarks as being aimed at either raising the cost of coal through BLM's leasing process or making it off - limits to coal companies altogether.

Because these cells can be made more quickly than bulky solar panels, the company thinks they might be cost - competitive with coal or nuclear power.

M.I.T. professor Ely Sachs gave up his faculty position to go all - in on a company that he believes can make solar energy competitive with coal via smart photovoltaic manufacturing.

Without a level playing field and a steady price on carbon, companies can not assess whether advanced technologies such as «clean coal» power plants or electric vehicles will ever make economic sense.

Statistics from the China Coal Industry Association show that in 2014, 7 out of 10 Chinese coal companies failed to make ends mCoal Industry Association show that in 2014, 7 out of 10 Chinese coal companies failed to make ends mcoal companies failed to make ends meet.

Though he hasn't provided many specifics, Trump has publicly said he is eager to streamline the process and make it as easy as possible for energy companies to extract fossil fuels from public lands, which are the source of about 24 percent of America's fossil fuels, including about 40 percent of all the coal produced in the U.S.

In the UK, carbon pricing — charging those who emit carbon dioxide — has become much stronger in recent years, making it more profitable for power companies to use natural gas generation rather than coal.

The ACCCE companies claim that they «are committed to making coal a clean energy source.»

A profit making private company not only has no reason to avoid burning coal, it in some sense has an obligation to burn coal if that produces the greatest profit without breaking any laws.

Besides the possibility of our applying a similar process to the bituminous coal and tars made therefrom, in this country, the research on hydrogenation has been extended by one of the great oil companies of the United States which at great expense has learned how the method can be so modified as to apply to petroleum hydrocarbons.

The company makes fibreglass - reinforced pipelines, coal scrubbers and wind turbines.

If people all not to buy the power from coal, coal power companies maybe change their direction to make power from renewable energy.

Why can't we make the coal companies put their own money into carbon capture research?

Here's an excerpt making his prime point, followed by more from Schendler on a climate - friendly energy deal he just helped broker between his employer, which runs four of the region's marquee * ski resorts, and a coal mine owner whose company is a member of a group promoting the myth that global warming is a «great delusion.»

ANDY REVKIN received by email and posted: Hi Andy, in my talks and papers I have mentioned many times that it does not make sense to go after every last drop of oil, and I have noted that one useful thing that citizens can do, in addition to helping block coal fired power plants, is to keep oil companies out of places such as Arctic National wildlife Refuge, deep and off - shore areas.

We want energy production technologies that make coal power plants and coal mining look ever more archaic and unfashionable so that no developed or developing nation can build another one with any pride, and so even energy companies will shut down existing plants with a sense of relief, rather than regret.

A profit making private company not only has no reason to avoid burning coal, it in some sense has an obligation to burn coal if that produces the greatest profit without breaking any laws.

We need to make the coal and oil companies pay their fair share of taxes, and get out of the government trough once and for all.

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...?

Regardless of what the Heritage Foundation thinks, the government can and does have a role to play... cut taxes on businesses and individuals who help us build a green future, conduct research or provide subsidies for private companies to do it, help people make their homes energy efficient, and educate, educate, educate the American people as to what's at stake if we don't pry ourselves away from the oil / coal / gas faucet.

As a large company not afraid to lose money by supporting risky technologies, Google can be an important player in streamlining green technology deployment, and making «cheaper than coal (with a carbon price)» a reality.

FRANKFURT, Aug 6 (Reuters)- Germany utilities are heaping pressure on the government before September polls to soften green policies that are hurting their profits, with one company hinting it could even move gas or coal plants to countries where it can still make money.

In May 2010, American Electric Power announced it planned to run 10 small coal - fired power units on a part - time basis starting in June as «the weak economy reduced demand and low natural gas prices have made the use of some coal units less profitable,» according to the company.

Shareholder action can be an effective tool to make small reforms at a company — such as pressuring Apple to institute better labour practices at the factories it works with in China — but it won't achieve the fundamental changes to the business model of the fossil fuel industry needed: keeping their coal, oil and gas reserves in the ground.

The problem is that the oil and coal companies have massive amounts of money to make sure they can continue their activities.

Black lung benefits: In the content of the coal operation statement of income, this term refers to all payments, including taxes, made by the company attributable to Black Lung.

In addition to the re-branded inhalers, which promised to make asthmatic kids «show others who's cool at school,» the website also stated that the company would pledge $ 10 towards medication as a part of its Coal Cares campaign.

China's GreenGen project, backed by world's largest private coal company Peabody Energy, appears further down the road to knowing if it can make the technology work.

The rule «reinforces what most power company executives and investors already understand — that if and when new coal plants make a comeback, they will need to be designed with carbon capture and storage,» said David Doniger, a senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council.

One of the company's most efficient coal plants was approved in 2008, and it now «runs quite a lot, but it doesn't make very much money,» said Jasper.

Utilities and energy companies are realizing that coal is an increasingly bad investment — that was definitely the case with Brayton Point, which had just been purchased by new owners who quickly determined that keeping the plant running didn't make economic sense.

In order to make this bad deal work, the coal companies were allowed to re-route the highway's proposed route, moving it away from local business districts and threatening to take thousands of acres of privately - owned land through eminent domain.

The preferential tariff — the price that China's two state - owned electricity transmission and distribution companies will pay energy companies for their solar power — aims to make solar power competitive against traditional fuels, such as coal, which accounts for two - thirds of China's electricity.

Frazier, with Vistra Energy, told lawmakers that the same economics that made the company close its coal plants have also spurred investments in other types of plants.

Like Scaife and Gulf Oil, Olin made his bucks in part from the fossil fuel industry via the Olin Corporation, which manufactured blasting powder for coal mining companies.

According to company officials, the hike is needed to «comply with EPA environmental improvements to reduce polluting emissions from coal - fired plants, make up for a decline in demand for electricity from commercial and industrial users, and cover rising costs of health care for the utility's employees.»

The slump in coal prices has driven at least two dozen coal companies into bankruptcy in the last three years alone, including major producers like James River Coal and Patriot Coal Corporation, after many of the worst performers — who betted on an upturn that never came — made acquisitions and borrowed heavcoal prices has driven at least two dozen coal companies into bankruptcy in the last three years alone, including major producers like James River Coal and Patriot Coal Corporation, after many of the worst performers — who betted on an upturn that never came — made acquisitions and borrowed heavcoal companies into bankruptcy in the last three years alone, including major producers like James River Coal and Patriot Coal Corporation, after many of the worst performers — who betted on an upturn that never came — made acquisitions and borrowed heavCoal and Patriot Coal Corporation, after many of the worst performers — who betted on an upturn that never came — made acquisitions and borrowed heavCoal Corporation, after many of the worst performers — who betted on an upturn that never came — made acquisitions and borrowed heavily.

-- 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

Carbon capture experts say two important projects will open soon in North America: the Southern Company's Kemper County plant in Mississippi, which will burn coal to make electricity and provide carbon dioxide for oil recovery, and the Boundary Dam coal plant in Saskatchewan, which will do the same.