Sentences with phrase «coal country last»

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An article in Scientific American last year titled «Inside a Western Town That Refuses to Quit Coal» said the plant emits nearly 15 million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, earning a spot among the top 20 carbon - producing power plants in the country.

Indeed, the last time that so few of us highlighted crime as one of the key national issues, the country was just edging its way out of the last recession whilst the PM John Major was announcing plans to close coal mines and the Queen was about to famously surmise the year as Annus Horribilis.

Coal consumption is soaring, and according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the country burned 325 million tons last year alone, putting China's coal demand at 47 percent of global consumption (ClimateWire, Jan. Coal consumption is soaring, and according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the country burned 325 million tons last year alone, putting China's coal demand at 47 percent of global consumption (ClimateWire, Jan. coal demand at 47 percent of global consumption (ClimateWire, Jan. 30).

The country's carbon dioxide emissions likely fell 3 percent last year thanks to its shrinking manufacturing production, declining coal consumption and booming renewable energy installation, Greenpeace said in a newly published analysis.

While oil and natural gas operations may have taken something of a downturn in the state over the last five years, Wyoming is still, incontestably, coal country.

The vision that «clean coal» will play a significant role in the country's energy future was on display last night in Barack Obama's acceptance speech, and you can be sure it will be highlighted when John McCain speaks next week, as well.

After the announcement in Italy, attention turns to the last coal - burning countries in Europe, especially Germany.»

While oil and natural gas operations may have taken something of a downturn in the state over the last five years, Wyoming is still, incontestably, coal country.

Because decisions made about the power sector are long - lived — power purchase agreements can last over a decade and power plants for decades more — it's a matter of making the right decisions today, as the country pivots away from coal, to secure water and power for the long - term.

For example, in late 2004, Duke Energy, one of the country's largest utilities and most experienced builders, started planning a pair of coal - fired power plants to replace several built around the middle of the last century, at Cliffside, in western North Carolina.

In the last two years coal mining in Ukraine has decreased almost twofold, resulting in a downturn of the country's carbon emissions.

Moreover, it's something that can be mined and used within the U.S. Even though the country imports millions of short tons of coal per year, the rate has dropped dramatically in the last decade, from more than 34.5 million tons in 2006 to just 9.6 million tons in 2015.

Finally, let me take on the anti-environmentalists» last line of defense — the claim that whatever we do won't matter, because other countries, China in particular, will just keep on burning ever more coal.

It is this spirit that has seen countries like Germany achieve a 59 % renewable energy peak last month, President Obama start to turn the tide on previous US inaction by launching a new Climate Action Plan that includes action to begin the phase down of coal power, and China's statement last week that it intends to usher in stronger emissions reductions in its next Five Year Plan, due in 2015.

He said fossil fuel subsidies were endemic in the US: «Every single well, pipeline, refinery, coal and gas plant in the country is heavily subsidised.Big Fossil's lobbyists have done their jobs well for the last century.»

Belgium has become the latest country to shut down its last remaining coal - fired power station, Langerlo.

-- http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jun/08/five-g7-nations-increased-their-coal-use-over-a-five-year-period-research-shows Five of the world's seven richest countries have increased their coal use in the last five years despite demanding that poor countries slash their carbon emissions to avoid catastrophic climate change, new research shows.

As I demonstrated in the post, the U.S. has been the most successful country over the last decade in reducing its emissions; most of that is due to fuel switching from coal to natural gas.

Coal made up about 31 percent and LNG 26 percent of the country's total power generation capacity last year.

Coal will last for a thousand years in this country.»

Considering that America has 22.1 percent of the world's proven coal reserves, the greatest of any country and enough to last for 381 years at current consumption rates, it is a tragedy that the U.S. can no longer build new, clean, coal - fired power stations to replace its aging fleet of coal plants.Supercritical power plants operate at very high temperatures and pressures, resulting in significantly greater efficiencies than older technologies.

Many countries pledged in the Paris Agreement reached last December to cut their coal use.

Last year anti-coal communities converged in Batangas City to advance their demand for the cancellation of all plans, permits and construction of coal - fired power plants in Batangas and the rest of the country.

Quoting two sentences: «The country built 114,000 megawatts of fossil - fuel - based generating capacity last year alone, almost all coal - fired, and is on course to complete 95,000 megawatts more this year.