Sentences with phrase «coal exporter»

There are plans to make BC the biggest coal exporter in North America.

A November 2007 presentation to investment analysts by the President of BHP Billiton Coal, Dave Murray, noted that Drummond had an 5 % share of the global coal export trade, making it the equal fifth largest coal exporter in the world.

Rainforest Action Network along with Peaceful Uprising, Utah Moms for Clean Air and the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers organized a 60 person rally in from of the office of coal exporter Ambre Energy asking them to stop their development of coal export facilities in Longview, Washington.

Whereas the delicate balance between imports and domestic production in China, and to a lesser extent India, made import volumes volatile in the past few years, stability in Northeast Asia (Japan, Korea and Chinese Taipei) provided a level of comfort for coal exporters.

Uncertainty about the level of US exports will be the highest among all major coal exporters given the role of the United States as a swing supplier.

«Talking to coal exporters there, «Greed & fear» hears that demand from China for coal is strong while, interestingly, in stark contrast to past practice, China SOE steel producers now pay on time.»

«Essentially, what this does is it wipes out the last remaining option for U.S. coal exporters to get their products off the northwest coast to Asia,» said Williams - Derry, who works for the Sightline Institute, an energy think tank based in Seattle.

Australia will become the world's largest coal exporter by 2017, shipping 356 million tons of coal equivalent, the report says.

The fact that the world's highest per capita emitter and largest coal exporter puts a price on carbon sends a signal internationally.

The large coal exporters Rio Tinto and Xstrata recorded profits this year of more than $ 8 billion and $ 6 billion respectively.

Australia is forecast to remain the largest coal exporter through 2022.

BNEF expects solar to form a significant part of the power generation build in the major economies of Asia, to the exclusion of coal - fired generation in particular — a bad sign for Australia's aspiring coal exporters.

China, which was a perennial coal exporter until 2009, the first year that it imported more than it sent out, is expected to import up to 150 million tons this year.

Australia is the biggest coal exporter in the world.

They can build more coal plants, driving up their prices by competing with themselves; or they can flood their electricity markets with the maximum possible volume of non-coal power, enabling their existing fleet to operate at much lower costs and weakening the price power of coal exporters.

Not only is the U.S. gearing up to export both oil and gas, it is also a major coal exporter, helping to crash prices there, too, and to bring affordable fossil fuel to the world.

(Australia is the fifth largest coal miner and the biggest coal exporter in the world.)

South Africa is the world's second - largest coal exporter, with developed countries accounting for 80 percent of its coal exports.

And so it seems to me that for coal exporters, the only way to raise prices significantly and permanently would be an agreement between the main coal exporters to restrain volumes and keep prices high — a kind of OPEC for coal.

Given that Australia is by far the largest coal exporter, it should be up to Australia to arrange such a scheme.

Australia would be the hardest hit of any coal exporters because it has the highest marginal cost.

It also makes a sizeable contribution to emissions overseas: in 2013, it was the world's second largest coal exporter.

Australia is the world's second - biggest coal exporter and also the second - largest exporter of liquefied natural gas.

Wind is now cheaper than fossil fuels in producing electricity in Australia, the world's biggest coal exporter, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

Australia is the world's largest coal exporter, but new regulations could increase its prices, said Jimmy Brock, chief operating officer for Consol Energy, which is based in Pittsburgh.

With new measures to cap coal use and restrict imports of low quality coal in China, it appears the tide is turning against the coal exporters.

Under Obama's watch, the U.S. has solidified itself as the world's fourth - largest coal exporter, mostly via terminals on the East Coast.

In Australia, the world's biggest coal exporter and the nation most dependent on coal for electricity, then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd declared CCS «critical» to generating jobs and bringing down greenhouse gas emissions.

The IEA continues to see an increase in global coal use by 0.2 % per year, and says China's coal use will continue to make up more than half of the country's total power generation, with Australia remaining the largest coal exporter, followed by Indonesia.

At the launching, prime minister Kevin Rudd said that this showed Australia was facing up to its responsibilities as the world's largest coal exporter.

At ports in Canada, Australia, Indonesia, Colombia and South Africa, ships are lining up to load coal for furnaces in China, which has evolved virtually overnight from a coal exporter to one of the world's leading purchasers.