Sentences with phrase «coal development as»

One interesting debate was in Newcastle (NSW) where wine growers are against further coal development as the drought is damaging their vineyards and threatening jobs - but with the coal producers saying new mines are needed for local jobs.

Trump's energy plan reads like a wish list from the fossil fuel industry: it envisions unfettered oil, gas and coal development as a path to national prosperity and energy independence.

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Annette began her career as a development officer with the Cape Breton Development Corporation, a coal mining operation, in Sydney, Ndevelopment officer with the Cape Breton Development Corporation, a coal mining operation, in Sydney, NDevelopment Corporation, a coal mining operation, in Sydney, Nova Scotia.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Trump vowed during the campaign to void U.S. commitments made in Paris last year to curb climate - changing carbon emissions, and to tear down regulatory barriers that he viewed as impeding development of coal, oil, and natural gas.

I was encouraged by President Obama's calls for the construction of more nuclear power plants, as well as for increased offshore exploration of oil and natural gas, and the further development of clean coal technologies.

By calling for re-energizing CCS development, PCAST is making two judgments: 1) that the coal industry is highly likely to remain competitive even as it complies with EPA restrictions on emissions of SOx, NOx, Hg, and other toxics; and 2) that a substantial price on carbon is highly likely to arrive in a time frame of relevance for a CCS development effort.

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.

With more money for development of novel designs and public financial support for construction — perhaps as part of a clean energy portfolio standard that lumps in all low - carbon energy sources, not just renewables or a carbon tax — nuclear could be one of the pillars of a three - pronged approach to cutting greenhouse gas emissions: using less energy to do more (or energy efficiency), low - carbon power, and electric cars (as long as they are charged with electricity from clean sources, not coal burning).

But rather than searching for ways to stretch the oil we still have — like a modern Hanukkah — it makes more sense to accelerate development of clean alternatives such as electric cars or biofuels from algae — and avoid dirty ones like turning coal or tar sands to liquid fuels.

The Northwestern development could lead to new thermoelectric devices with potential applications in the automobile industry, glass - and brick - making factories, refineries, coal - and gas - fired power plants, and places where large combustion engines operate continuously (such as in large ships and tankers).

McMorris Rodgers would have the power to reverse Obama administration efforts to protect federally managed waters from oil and gas development as well as end the research into how coal mining affects the climate.

It will focus on catalyst development for four applications: proton exchange membrane fuel cells to convert stored energy in non-fossil fuels into electricity; electrolysers for splitting water into oxygen and hydrogen — a potential clean fuel cell source; syngas, a mixture of CO and H2, which is generated from coal, gas and biomass, and widely used as a key intermediate in the chemical industry; and lithium - air batteries.

It astounds me that the Sasan coal plant has qualified as a Clean Development Mechanism, or CDM, under the Kyoto Protocol.

The coal industry will have to innovate in order to stage a return to its former status as America's primary source of electricity, said James Van Nostrand, a law professor and director of the Center for Energy and Sustainable Development at West Virginia University in Morgantown, W.Va.

Humanity must become aware of the urgent need to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy sources to avoid the catastrophic scenario of using coal as an energy source as well as to replace the current model of development for sustainable development, which, by reverse logistics, with the reuse, recovery and recycling of materials, thus reaching the so - called closed production cycle, could delay the exhaustion of natural resources of the planet Earth.

Identify and describe various technological developments to control fire, water, wind, and soil, and to utilize natural resources such as trees, coal, oil, and gas in order to satisfy the basic human needs for food, water, clothing, and shelter.

Still, we can invest our efforts in new development as wisely as possible, choosing solar over coal and biodiversity over factory farms.

Wearing my academic hat, I'm currently helping * the new Center for Energy Governance and Security at Korea's Hanyang University develop partnerships here to examine how to foster responsible development of shale gas in China as a near - term path away from coal.

In a sign of things that might have been, Chinese children born after the closure of a local coal plant have found themselves with 60 % less development problems such as motor skill coordination than those born prior to the closing.

If fuel prices stay the way they've been (that is, expensive and becoming more so), we can expect to see more funding for magnificent developments in alternative fuels (sadly, one of which is coal) as they supplant oil as an industrial, commercial and transportation energy source.

«Tens of thousands of kilogrammes of toxic metals such as mercury, lead, arsenic and cadmium are spewed out of the stacks, contributing to cancer risk and harming children's development,» says the Greenpeace report, which does not emphasise the impact of coal burning on climate change.

Living in Germany, Mr Teske has witnessed first hand the decline in employment in the German coal sector in the 1990s and, as a result of some of the most progressive renewable energy industry development policies in the world, seen the German renewable energy workforce grow to 250,000 employees.

As oil and coal fall back and renewables ramp up strongly, natural gas becomes the largest single fuel in the global mix in the Sustainable Development Scenario.

This partnership will support AFOC in promoting the development and utilisation of cleaner coal technologies (CCT), with the aim to fulfil ASEAN's vision as stipulated in the ASEAN Plan of Action for Energy Cooperation (APAEC) 2016 - 2025.

In many cases, US coal companies relied upon the EIA Reference Case, which is a scenario projection of current business - as - usual trends over a 20 - 30 year period, assuming no new policies, regulatory interventions, or disruptive technological developments.

There's still a significant amount of other fossil fuel finance at the World Bank Group that will need to be addressed, including ongoing indirect support for coal through financial intermediaries and development policy finance, as well as other oil and gas finance.

Lastly, research toward and potential development of capture and storage solutions and / or coal gasification could accommodate some of Poland's reliance on coal while minimizing its negative externalities, such as CO2 emissions and smog.

Over a century's worth of subsidizing fossil energy sources — not to mention roads, vehicle development and manufacturing, and transmission / distribution infrastructure — have underwritten the steady development and improvement of conventional energy sources and embedded coal, oil, and natural gas as the favored national energy inputs.

Platts editors discuss the major trends in Asia power development, including the increasing use of internationally traded fuel as power feedstocks and the dominance of coal in the fuel mix.

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.

Coal will continue as a critical enabler of development and will continue as the fuel of choice for the rapidly urbanising and industrialising economies of this diverse continent.

In addition, Montana has not had the extensive railroad development that would be necessary to support coal production on the same scale as Wyoming's,

There is still time for the World Bank to do the right thing and halt this dirty coal project as well as further WBG support of coal development more generally.

Once the nation commits to a rapid timetable for requiring CCS systems at all new coal plants under an emission performance standard, then all of our regulatory and research and development efforts should be focused on implementing CCS technology as effectively as possible.

We combine action on shutting down coal plants and other toxic facilities at the local level, as well as building of new toxic facilities, with advocacy to strengthen development, monitoring, and enforcement of regulations at federal, state, and local levels.

«We are determined to ensure the UK continues to be at the forefront of CCS development - and this sets us on course to lead the world in the development of CCS on gas as well as coal,» he said.

According to Shorting the Climate, a report documenting big bank support for fossil fuel infrastructure, the top global and U.S. banks provided $ 785 billion for fossil fuel infrastructure such as coal and tar sands development from 2013 through 2015.

Coal mining and wind farms make a strange partnership masked as environmentally wise development.

The companies also back natural gas as a cleaner alternative to coal and want to see more research and development into renewables and carbon capture and storage.

NSW still has the 2,000 MW Bayswater B Power Station on its books, as well as the revamp of the 700MW Munmorah Power Station, although AEMO noted that 550MW HRL Developments Dual Gas Demonstration Project in Victoria, and the 504 MW Stanwell Corporation integrated black coal gasification combined - cycle power station near Wandoan in Queensland, had been withdrawn.

ASEAN's Energy Equation — the role of low emission coal in driving a sustainable energy future provides comprehensive analysis for the energy security and sustainable development opportunities that cleaner coal technologies (CCTs) promote as identified in ASEAN Plan of Action for Energy Cooperation (APAEC) 2016 - 2025.

The Delhi government left no - one under any illusion in Paris it sees coal as the gateway to development.

The Power Technology website notes that «As gloomy portents go, they don't come much gloomier for «clean coal» than recent developments at the Kemper County energy facility in Mississippi», which is «widely regarded to be one of the world's biggest proofs - of - concept for clean coal» and which «has failed to deliver.»

That's why projects such as Adani's Carmichael mine development in Queensland remain essential, because they will supply high quality coal into India for use in modern HELE power plants.

As part of our enhanced cooperation, last week in Astana, the WCA in collaboration with the IEA Clean Coal Centre (IEACCC) and the UNECE organised a workshop as part of the Eighth International Forum on Energy for Sustainable DevelopmenAs part of our enhanced cooperation, last week in Astana, the WCA in collaboration with the IEA Clean Coal Centre (IEACCC) and the UNECE organised a workshop as part of the Eighth International Forum on Energy for Sustainable Developmenas part of the Eighth International Forum on Energy for Sustainable Development.

Poland's leaders have come to see coal, and further development of the country's vast lignite reserves, as crucial to maintaining the nation's position as one of the faster - growing economies in the EU.

Even as global coal development continues, the U.S. industry itself is shrinking.

Nevertheless, the benefits of coal as a widely available and relatively cheap source of energy underscores its important role in energy security, economic development and the alleviation of energy poverty worldwide.

The Kentucky solar project, for instance, began in early 2016 when Ryan Johns, project development executive of Berkeley Energy, decided he wanted to help diversify the company's portfolio as the coal mining industry declines.