Sentences with phrase «coal export»

The proposed coal export terminals have serious implications for rail congestion in the region as well as road congestion due to delays as coal trains pass through towns.

Residents are concerned that with the increase of coal export activity, the facility's permit is not up to standards to protect the community.

I'm a little curious about the numbers too, given that they are so much greater than current coal exports from the region.

It makes more than 80 % of its electricity from coal, and its economy depends significantly on coal exports.

What short - term benefit we do get from the switch to natural gas would be completely lost if it results in expanded coal exports.

Australian coal exports represent 11 per cent of the global market.

This is the highest level of quarterly coal exports since 1992, when exports were 27 million short tons.

As such, the regulatory hurdles to greater coal exports are minor compared to those faced by the proposed terminals south of the border.

What makes this especially interesting is that they have an economy highly dependent upon coal exports and coal burning.

Some scholars have offered up the idea of establishing an international system of coal export restrictions.

Increasing global demand, elevated prices, and a greater capacity to ship coal around the world have made coal exports more profitable.

If you need that much evidence then look up «coal export news» on the net and start looking at everything that is put out every day..

The result surprised me: coal exports look to be an even bigger climate disaster than the pipeline.

But the reality is there's no other way to engage in global environmental issues like coal exports without focusing on the local impacts.

Lately coal export has been getting a lot of attention in the media.

A 9 % forecast decline in coal exports also contributes to lower expected coal production in 2018.

Coal is also stored on - site at mines and coal export terminals, and roughly 67 percent of it is delivered by train, typically in uncovered freight cars.

Today in 2012 our determination can stop the expansion of coal exports.

Lower expected global demand for U.S. coal exports in 2018 and 2019 also contributes to the forecast of lower coal production.

Denis Horgan, Vice President of Westshore Terminal at Roberts Bank in Delta — the largest coal export facility on the Pacific coast — said the $ 230 million project is more about «staying efficient,» and carefully used the words «stockpile expansion.»

At the time, it would have been the largest coal export terminal in North America.

Last month, 53 members of Congress — including Washington State's Republican Rep. Doc Hastings — sent a letter to the U.S. Army and the Department of the Interior, which grants leases to mine coal, asking the agencies to «expedite their consideration of permits for coal export facilities.»

Over 68 % of total U.S. coal exports in 2010 were coking coal, which is used in making iron and steel.

Her advocacy background includes working for Greenpeace fighting coal export proposals in the western U.S, as a staff attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity, and as a litigation fellow at the Pacific Environmental Advocacy Center (now EarthRise Law Center).

,» focused on the increase in US coal exports as US utilities reduced coal in favor of natural gas between 2008 - 2011:

On the very day of the televised leaders debate for the 2017 BC Election, Premier Christy Clark has suddenly found a reason to ask Prime Minister Trudeau to ban thermal coal exports from BC ports.

The project alone would boost U.S. coal exports by 40 percent.

Next week — Sept. 17, to be exact — starts off a series of public hearings about proposed coal export terminals in Washington State:

Steam coal exports increased by 27.0 % from the fourth quarter of 2010 to 9.6 million short tons.

Sightline is releasing a new and updated research backgrounder today: it's a «frequently asked questions» about coal exports from the Northwest.

Steam coal exports totaled 13.4 million short tons (36.9 % higher than third — quarter 2017.

For example, companies have been seeking permission to build coal export terminals on the Pacific coast for several years.

Hunt is the man who gave the go - ahead for a huge new coal export facility at Abbot Point in Queensland.

Everywhere you look, people are shutting down fracking wells, stopping coal export facilities, and challenging new pipelines.

Walking down East Patapsco, she pointed out the facilities as they came into view: the nation's largest medical waste facility along with coal export terminals, oil tank farms, animal rendering facilities, chemical factories and Baltimore City's main landfill — among others.

Decisions the Northwest makes now will impact Chinese energy habits for the next half - century; the lower coal prices afforded by Northwest coal exports encourage burning coal and discourage the investments in energy efficiency that China has already undertaken.

Whether it's the health impacts from increased exposure to diesel exhaust or coal dust or train derailments themselves, increased coal exports come at a cost to our neighborhoods.

Co-wrote and ensured passage of a resolution opposing coal export by the Pacific Northwest Conference of the United Church of Christ, and a similar overture in the Presbytery of Seattle (PCUSA).

Yesterday's protest targeted the port at Newcastle, some 160 km north of Sydney, where the country's largest coal export port is located.

(It's a figure that may actually understate the actual volume of exports because the Longview project sponsors have already been caught out using an 80 million ton figure, and there are nascent or rumored coal export plans that I didn't account for in places like Grays Harbor, Washington; St. Helens, Oregon; and Coos Bay, Oregon.)

Washington, Oregon and BC activists who are fighting coal export from our shores will be grateful for this information.

Metallurgical coal exports totaled 14.8 million short tons (0.4 % lower than third — quarter 2017).

The result was a 70 percent jump in US coal exports over 2016:

[UPDATE 7/1: Upon consultation with editors here at The Times, we've pulled the photograph of a cliff of coal that was provided by Peabody Energy to accompany a Times business - section story in March on rising coal exports and which I used to illustrate this post on Peabody's response to criticisms of coal companies by James Hansen of NASA.

Wrote and circulated a religious leader sign - on letter against coal export which garnered 250 signatures of clergy and other key faith leaders in Washington.

We have successfully blocked every proposal to build coal export infrastructure in the Pacific Northwest, save for one: a proposed terminal in Longview, Washington, that is on its last legs after it was denied certification by the state's Department of Ecology.

The latest evidence comes in an Earth Day news release from Peabody Energy, the largest private coal company, which is thriving both domestically and through rapidly growing coal exports from its worldwide mining operations to China, India and other developing countries.