Sentences with phrase «coal extraction»

The carbon tax on coal extraction would be a net jobs creator.

We've looked at the problems that coal extraction faces.

Mining and ballads have gone together through the ages, from the early days of coal extraction in Britain and Wales on through another standard I sing in Uncle Wade — Merle Travis's «Dark as a Dungeon» — and forward to Sting's tune «We Work the Black Seam.»

However, these levels of production would require the annual harvesting of 500 million dry tonnes (550 million dry tons) of biomass and an increase in coal extraction in the United States by 50 % over current levels, resulting in a range of potential environmental impacts on land, water, air, and human health — including increased CO2 emissions to the atmosphere from coal - to - liquid fuels unless process CO2 from liquid - fuel production plants is captured and stored geologically.

When I am confronted by the threats to the integrity of these aspects of the world, whether through photos of the Tar Sands, or reading about mountain - top removal for coal extraction, or some other sight or story about degradation, I ache in a way that compels me to do something.

Many experts on China caution that most sources of data there should come with fat error bars, given past instances in which official estimates of activities ranging from coal extraction to fish catches proved to be way off.

«The «best practice»... is a clear exclusion policy on commercial lending and investment banking services for all coal companies who practice mountaintop removal coal extraction,» says RAN.

It says «that the use of U.S. LNG exports for power production in European and Asian markets will not increase GHG emissions, on a life cycle perspective, when compared to regional coal extraction and consumption for power production.»

The federal coal leasing program is the source of 40 % of US coal extraction, with major impacts on coal markets and carbon pollution.

After all, legislation that restricts mountaintop coal extraction already exists.

CCS turns carbon dioxide into a liquid form of carbon, which oil and coal extraction companies then pump into underground geological formations and wells and cap; millions of tons of carbon are already being stored this way each year.

Capturing a major energy source The CATF report describes how existing technologies could capture methane gas during coal extraction and offer benefits beyond mine safety and environmental improvements.

She believes that is why, on Jan. 11, as she was boarding a flight to London to talk to British ministers about coal extraction in India, she was stopped.

Why not compare coal extraction and transport, oil extraction and transport, gas extraction and transport and the extraction and transport and processing of all the materials involved in the life cycle of a solar PV cell or a wind farm?

This means that the benefit to Queensland coffers from allowing coal extraction for export has been only about $ 470 million / year.

Peabody Energy end coal extraction and switch completely to renewable, sustainable energy.

In fact, coal companies would better concentrate on extracting methane from coal seams and sink CO2 there, staying in business without coal extraction.

«These will not reopen whatever anything President Trump does,» explains BNEF, «nor do we see much appetite among investors for ploughing money into U.S. coal extraction — stranded asset risk will trump rhetoric.»

While coal extraction is a significant share of the Kentucky economy, the state is also a major manufacturer of automobiles, has a thriving agriculture and cattle industry, and is known around the world for its horse breeding and thoroughbred racing.

As Pacific Climate Warriors we stood in solidarity with German communities who are fighting the frontlines of coal extraction with creative tactics and determination.

Loans for coal extraction are practically non-existent.

Thus, the NETL analysis concluded that there was little difference in the total amount of life cycle climate pollution between «U.S. LNG exports for power production in European and Asian markets... when compared to regional coal extraction and consumption for power production.»

The US Energy Information Administration reported that in 2013, 401 million tons of coal came from federal lands, 40.4 % of total US coal extraction.

Communities dependent on coal extraction have been suffering from falling employment for many years, often even as production was rising.

While some of the political dynamics of the coal sector are very specific to Colombia, there are important lessons for transitions away from coal extraction.

To say that the violence of coal extraction is inevitable is to despair of providing a description of the world as heading toward its redemption in Christ.

This new visibility is the product of so - called mountaintop removal methods of coal extraction.

The actions suggest the government is not interested in setting right the environmental and social injustices of coal extraction, which Greenpeace's activists highlighted in Singrauli, said Ramana of Princeton University.

Expanding supply occupies the majority of press attention, and in the plan China does not disappoint: major expansions in coal extraction, unconventional natural gas (shale and coal - bed methane), large hydro, nuclear and renewables are already underway in an «all of the above» energy strategy.

The industry touts the amount of potential energy that can be gained from a fracking well relative to its «small» footprint as a major advantage of the process over conventional gas wells and coal extraction.

Will NSW become rich from allowing new gas / coal extraction or native forest logging?

Despite being one of the world's largest markets for renewable energy, Germany has an extensive history of coal extraction.

«Coal extraction is also more energy - intensive and destructive to the environment.»

The activists interjected information on the impacts of coal extraction, including their final question, «What gives you the right to gamble the future of civilization on a magic technology that doesn't exist?»

Methane emissions derive mostly from landfills, agriculture (particularly rice farming), livestock, and natural gas and coal extraction, while soot, otherwise called «black carbon», results from the incomplete combustion of fossil fuels and derives primarily from primitive cook stoves used throughout much of the developing world, as well as diesel engines and coal - burning power plants.

Doing so would make it easier for states to sell off lands or access to public lands for oil, gas, and coal extraction, which would benefit ALEC members like Peabody Energy, Duke Energy, American Electric Power, and others.

Mountaintop removal mining is one of the most environmentally destructive forms of coal extraction, where hills are flattened through the use of explosives to access coal seams often hundreds of feet below the surface.

Since 2004, coal extraction has grown significantly in China.

For example, even though Trump has vowed to bring back coal mining jobs, the coal extraction industry is on its last breaths, primarily as a result of energy market forces.

At Arch Coal, the country's second largest coal producer, citizens will ask the company to end the damaging practice of mountaintop removal for coal extraction; and, in the immediate future, spare the historic Blair Mountain from destruction.

By law, MLPs can currently only invest in energy as it pertains to oil, natural gas, coal extraction and pipeline projects.