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

Factor these in and Australia may well treble rather than double its coal exports by 2020.

Emissions from coal exported by Australia are almost twice as much as our entire emissions within Australia.more...

Not exact matches

While manufacturing has shown a little weakness, the biggest difference by far is in mining — and that's where the Oil patch weakness shows up, as well as coal and metals production for export (recall how awful rail and steel have been in the Weekly Indicators for the last 4 months).

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.

If Carney is right, this will add to pressure on the Canadian dollar by slashing oil, gas and coal exports even further.

A key element in this shift is China; the value of Chinese exports to Canada tripled over this period and Canadian exports to China, while still small relative to exports to the US, have grown steadily in value driven by commodity exports which have been buoyed by high prices and huge demand in China for key Canadian exports such as minerals (nickel, coking coal, potash, copper and iron ore), pulp and lumber.

By: Dylan Slater 26th August 2016 According to consulting engineers and scientists SRK Consulting South Africa, the fact there are signs of resurgence in platinum, a stronger gold price and growing coal exports to India should be triggers for South Africa's mining leadership to grasp the opportunities it missed in the last... →

The Canadian Press has learned that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will notify B.C. Premier Christy Clark that he is seriously considering her request for a ban or a tax on thermal coal exports, and that it's being explored by federal trade officials.

The export prices of coal and iron ore are heavily influenced by the outcomes of longer - term contract negotiations, and contract prices are currently lagging recent price strength evident in spot markets.

The coal industry is booming driven by growth in export demand for coal world wide and the large number of coal - fired power plants currently scheduled to come online.

The local sharemarket was led down by metals and mining stocks as exports of iron ore and coal to China declined.

This pattern is already taking shape around the globe with U.S. and Australian coal companies coping with shrinking domestic markets by planning to export huge amounts of coal to India and China.

The European Union is by far the biggest customer for U.S. coal, with exports to the UK alone going up by about 70 percent in 2012.

Instead of Australia dumping millions of tonnes of sludge onto their Great Barrier Reef so they can export more coal to be burned (8 February, p 7), why don't they send it to an island country that needs it because of rising sea levels caused by climate change, such as Tuvalu in Polynesia?

Peabody says the coal is exported for use by utilities and steelmakers in North America and Europe.

But a paper prepared by officials from the European Commission trade department says export credits, or preferential loans to help cover exports costs, should be continued for the most modern coal plant technology.

Updated below, 12:51 p.m. A comprehensive and sobering Associated Press story by Dina Cappiello provides a valuable update on how United States policies promoting exports of coal are undercutting domestic efforts to restrict emissions of carbon dioxide, the heat - trapping gas released when fossil fuels are burned.

Believe it or not, my home state, Queensland, is gearing up to double coal export capacity by 2015.

Factor in the «carbon light» CO2 from coal seam gas projects in the East (and other LNG expansion in the north and west) and you're talking about Australia's fossil fuel emission exports equating to TWO Saudi Arabias by 2020, not one as I've been saying to many disbelieving ears.

So if the world moves toward a system for tracking emissions, who is responsible for a particular batch of carbon dioxide — the company that mined and sold the coal, the power plant that burned it, the consumer who buys the exported widget made with the electricity generated by that combustion, or...?

In reading a fresh assessment by Eric de Place of planned American coal exports to China (noted via Climateprogress), I was reminded of a batch of reporting I did recently on Australia's new carbon plan in light of its vast coal exports (300 million tons a year now, nearly all to Asia) and plans for substantial growth (5 percent a year through 2020).

The domestic emission reduction programs to which so much attention is devoted are similarly dwarfed by coal exports.

We should export the technology by investing in clean coal technology.

[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.

The original attached text in «An Export in Solid Supply» by CLIFFORD KRAUSS is «An 80 - foot wall of coal at Peabody Energy's North Antelope Rochelle mine in the Powder River Basin of Wyoming is an example of abundance in America.»

It is not possible to determine the share of exported wind in the way CEPOS does, simply because it is not possible to separate electricity produced by wind from electricity produced by coal.

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

The 237 - page bill introduced by U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R - AK)-- S. 2012, the Energy Policy Modernization Act of 2015 — includes provisions that would expedite the liquefied natural gas (LNG) export permitting process, heap subsidies on coal technology, and fund research geared toward discovering a way to tap into methane hydrate reserves.

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.

One of the attendees — who wasn't a Cloud Peak employee — suggested that mental health advocates travel to the Pacific Northwest, to advocate for controversial coal export terminals by telling locals about the urgency of Gillette's situation..

Financing of coal plants by international lenders such as the World Bank and the U.S. Export - Import Bank has also been the focus of protests, including worldwide opposition to the Tata Mundra Ultra Mega Power Project in India and the Medupi Power Station in South Africa.

Total coal exports surpassed the five - year (2006 - 2010) fourth - quarter range, increasing by 32.6 % from fourth quarter 2010 and 6.6 % from the third quarter of 2011, to 27.7 million short tons.

Staying out of Kyoto can not stop this; but entering the protocol would stimulate Australian firms to start investing in energy systems that we could eventually export to fill in the gap left by declining coal exports.

However as we speak Australia is helping with real global carbon cuts by exporting 20 % less coal.

By Clark Williams - Derry, Seattle Times Op - Ed The reality is that the economic prospects for West Coast coal exports have collapsed.

[v] Even phasing out Australia's coal exports would merely cause Australian GDP to double by 2031 instead of by 2030 [vi], paling in comparison to the impacts of the several degrees of global warming associated with continuing demand for those exports.

Coal and gas exports could be replaced by exporting solar generation to Asia via an undersea cable.

Protesters assembled by Portland's Reed College entered the banks as mock coal export trains, which they believed will expose Northwest residents to coal dust, diesel fumes and noise pollution if the coal export facility near Longview becomes operational.

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.

by Valerie Volcovici Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters)- The ailing U.S. coal industry is ramping up its political and legal offensive to win approval for West Coast export terminals that could provide a lifeline to lucrative Asia markets.

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«On Sunday, Feb 19th, we will march through downtown Missoula to protest an increase in coal exports (this action is not officially endorsed by Power Shift in any way).

This Wednesday, July 26, neighborhood citizens and members from the Sierra Club and Chesapeake Climate Action Network delivered comments about the main concerns of the people affected most by the coal dust that flows from the export terminal.

Indeed, Deutsche Bank says that even at $ 87 / tonne, some 43 million tonnes of export production from Australia would be forced offline, and investments in Queensland's Galilee Basin, such as the massive GVK Alpha coal mine part owned by Gina Rinehart, would be delayed.

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.

Landrieu, sounding perhaps a bit puzzled by this charge, said DOE's National Energy Technology Laboratory concluded that substituting exported U.S. LNG would reduce GHG emissions in Europe and Asia relative to use of regionally produced coal.

Some proponents of additional LNG exports argue that they would benefit the climate by replacing dirty coal - fueled electricity produced in Asia and Europe.

The switch has been driven by falling coal prices as Asian demand has slowed, the US has replaced some coal with shale gas and mining capacity has expanded in top exporting nations like Indonesia and Australia.

Although China is adding wind and solar power capacity at a rapid clip, after years of exporting most of their solar panel output, the scale of the country's coal use doesn't lend itself to easy or quick substitution by these renewables.