Sentences with phrase «coal export port»

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

Native Americans have played the crucial role in this campaign to «keep it in the ground,» just as they were leaders in the successful struggle to block the Keystone XL Pipeline, the proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline that would have carried dirty crude across Canada to the Pacific, and the building of a massive coal export port on Canada's Pacific coast.

Not exact matches

If that and other planned expansions go ahead, Vancouver, which has visions of becoming the world's greenest city, could instead increase its capacity to export the black stuff by almost half, becoming North America's largest coal port.

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.

22nd September 2017 According to South African rail, port and pipeline company Transnet, increasing rail capacity in South Africa is critical for unlocking coal export opportunities, both for neighbouring African countries and for the domestic market.

Even without the environmental drive, new railways from mines to ports, falling investment in coal - fired generation and slowing power demand growth could see China's miners export some of their surplus output at competitive prices, hitting regional miners and the viability of new projects.

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.

Plans to start mining and exporting coal from one of the country's biggest deposits — the Galilee basin — require the expansion of the Abbot Point shipping port in north Queensland, within the boundaries of the famous marine park.

This industrial port town located just under two hours north of Sydney is the largest coal - exporting harbor in the world, and for far too long, it had a...

This industrial port town located just under two hours north of Sydney is the largest coal - exporting harbor in the world, and for far too long, it had a pretty grimy reputation.

Currently, U.S. exports to Asia are somewhat constrained because there is little port capacity for big coal ships on the U.S. West Coast, and because metallurgical coal, the high - heat content rock that is used for steelmaking, is mined exclusively on the U.S. East Coast.

John Eaves, chief executive officer of St. Louis, Missouri - based Arch Coal, which saw the bulk of its exports last year go to South Korea, told investors last month that the company would be proactive in working to gain greater port capacity.

Companies are angling to build two export facilities in Washington State from which 100 million tons of coal would be shipped to China, Japan and South Korea a year — about the same as what the United States exports now from East Coast and Gulf ports.

Exports to the United Kingdom (1.2 million short tons) and South Korea (0.9 million short tons), which together accounted for 22.4 % of total steam coal exports, were followed by lower levels to Germany, the Netherlands (a major trans - shipment port), and BExports to the United Kingdom (1.2 million short tons) and South Korea (0.9 million short tons), which together accounted for 22.4 % of total steam coal exports, were followed by lower levels to Germany, the Netherlands (a major trans - shipment port), and Bexports, were followed by lower levels to Germany, the Netherlands (a major trans - shipment port), and Belgium.

Peabody exports Powder River Basin coal through existing ports to Europe, Chile and Asia.

The company stated that it was going to do a thorough environmental impact statement with public input before proceeding with it plans to redevelop the port for coal exports.

On March 7, 2011 Millennium Bulk announced that it was removing its coal export and related infrastructure proposal from a pending shoreline development permit for a port in Longview, Washington.

Coal exports will expand exponentially, liquefied natural gas will flow out of northern ports, the public will be massaged toward accepting oil pipelines either through the north, the south or both.

There is great concern that the mine will pose a huge environmental threat to the Great Barrier Reef, as the coal will need to be transported to a port terminal for export.

For more information on the proposed port developments in the western United States please visit the Coal exports from northwest United States ports article.

The group, called Alliance for Northwest Jobs & Exports, rolled out a campaign with television, radio and print ads to support exporting coal from Northwest ports.

In early November 2010 Australia - based Ambre Energy asked Cowlitz County officials in southern Washington State, which borders Oregon, to approve a port redevelopment that would allow for the export of 5 million tons of coal annually.

The company is also looking into exporting coal from ports located in the Pacific Northwest of the United States.

Peabody stated that exports of coal from the Powder River Basin in Montana and Wyoming will be central to its expansion goals, through coal exports from northwest United States ports.

In June 2011, The Oregonian reported that the Port of St. Helens in Columbia City, Oregon was being eyed as a potential Northwest port that would export coal to Asian countries.

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.

Peabody already has an agreement to export 24 million metric tons of coal per year from the proposed port, a figure that alone would mark more than a fivefold increase in U.S. steam coal exports.

Proposals for expansion of exports focus on sending coal from the Powder River Basin of Wyoming and Montana over rail lines to West Coast ports for shipment to Asian buyers.

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.

Proponents also include Peabody Energy, which would mine the coal for export; Warren Buffett, who owns the railway that would carry the coal; and SSA Marine, which runs ports around the world and wants to build this one.

HSBC, Europe's biggest bank, and Deutsche Bank, Germany's biggest, have stated that they were not interested in financing any coal mines that would export from ports near Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

U.S. coal exports are largely concentrated in a few facilities, with the leading seven ports accounting for 94 % of U.S. exports.

In February, the city's lower - income neighbor, Oakland, rejected a bid by Bowie Resource Partners to use its port as a coal export terminal.