Sentences with phrase «coal interests in»

Sourcewatch reports allegations that Lindzen was consulting for oil and coal interests in the early 1990s, but I haven't seen anything more recent than this.

Not exact matches

«He's got no energy plan, no financial analysis, if he thinks he's going to sell it off and the private sector is going to come in and invest, that is a recipe for Puerto Rico being raked over the coals by private interests,» Tom Sanzillo, director of finance for the Cleveland, Ohio - based Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis.

The coal industry was interested in ensuring that the Paris deal provides a role for low - emission coal - fired power plants and financial support for carbon capture and storage technology, the officials said.

As the rule's new effective date approaches, will he protect the retirement savings of working people — carpenters and coal miners, teachers and technicians, firefighters and farmers — or allow a portion of the financial sector to continue to keep their clients in the dark about whose interests come first?

While we're on the question of Ric Stowe and his Griffin Coal Company, bar - room chatter coming out of Collie indicates that life is about to get somewhat tougher in the coalfields and a new round of cost cutting may be on the way — with interesting variat

Progress in a few areas has been solid: slashing of bureaucratic red tape has led to a surge in new private businesses; full liberalization of interest rates seems likely following the introduction of bank deposit insurance in May; Rmb 2 trillion (US$ 325 billion) of local government debt is being sensibly restructured into long - term bonds; tighter environmental regulation and more stringent resource taxes have contributed to a surprising two - year decline in China's consumption of coal.

The European Commission is unlikely to show interest, as it has experimented in the past with largely unsuccessful subsidization of CCS and now sees support for coal as contrary to trends in its larger, more influential member states.

Earlier this month, Japanese trading houses Itochu and Sumitomo announced that they're selling their combined 45 percent interest in a pair of big Australian coal mines, Newlands and Collinsville.

An interesting development we can note in American coal production is that the sulfur content in burned coal is steadily climbing.

A diversified resources company that operates in several commodity businesses, including aluminum, energy coal and metallurgical coal, iron ore, copper, manganese, uranium, silver and titanium minerals, and has interests in oil, gas, liquefied natural gas and diamonds.

The Oct. 24 Reuters story said a private Chinese coal company had amassed 35 % of the open interest in copper contracts on the Shanghai Futures Exchange.

The Warsaw Conference has put the interests of dirty energy industries over that of global citizens — with a «Coal & Climate Summit» being held in conjunction; corporate sponsorship from big polluters plastered all over the venue; and a Presidency (Poland) that is beholden to the coal and fracking indusCoal & Climate Summit» being held in conjunction; corporate sponsorship from big polluters plastered all over the venue; and a Presidency (Poland) that is beholden to the coal and fracking induscoal and fracking industry.

The company's unchanged coal production guidance includes the largely offsetting impacts of Glencore's acquisition of Rio Tinto's 82 % interest in the Hail Creek mine, in Australia, and lower production from Prodeco in 2018, before returning to higher levels in 2019.

MOSCOW, Jan 17 Russian businessman Oleg Deripaska is interested in buying Russia's largest coal - fired power station from Enel Russia, three sources familiar with the plans told Reuters on Wednesday.

The Company has a majority interest in 27 of those coal operations and a 50 % equity interests in the Middlemount Mine in Australia.

South32 has unveiled plans to reduce its interest in its South African Energy Coal unit, potentially through a spin - off onto the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.

The initial stance was to generate discussion in regards to the negative impacts associated with areas of interest outside of coal mining, specifically those that will worsen once coal mining subsides.

(b) It is further in the national interest to ensure that the Nation's electricity is affordable, reliable, safe, secure, and clean, and that it can be produced from coal, natural gas, nuclear material, flowing water, and other domestic sources, including renewable sources.

Rio Tinto reaches agreement for sale of 50.1 per cent interest in Clermont Joint Venture to GS Coal Pty Ltd..

The committee of Coal & Allied directors formed to consider the initial proposal from Rio Tinto unanimously recommends that Coal & Allied shareholders vote in favour of the proposed Scheme, subject to an independent expert concluding that the Scheme is in the best interests of Coal & Allied minority shareholders and there being no superior proposal.

Oil Change International, another environmental organization, said that as the bank shifts away from coal, it is taking a larger and troubling interest in natural gas and big hydropower projects.

Segal said he disagrees that new coal - fired generation will become obsolete due to market forces alone, citing utilities» interest in maintaining a diverse fuel mix to hedge against price fluctuations.

But the timber picklers were not interested in the lighter and most volatile components of coal tar, which were still nothing but toxic waste — more toxic, in fact, than undistilled coal tar.

Scott Segal, executive director of the Electric Reliability Coordinating Council, which represents utility interests in Washington, said Bloomberg's findings about the effect of the new EPA rule on coal plants are «very consistent» with what his group concluded in its own review of the regulation.

So one interesting factoid in the article is that although that huge land mass that we are talking about seems just, you know, mind boggling, according to the article, it's actually less land [than] that's [what's] required to run 300 equivalent energy output coal plants.

I have followed with interest Fred Pearce's article on recovering coal energy in situ (15 February, p 36) and the...

He declares a relevant interest in income derived from leasing land for farming, coal mining and wind power.

Interest in hydrates has skyrocketed in recent years because global deposits are thought to harbor more fuel energy than all the world's coal, oil and natural gas reserves combined.

«Most of our efforts are unfunded or funded with a shoestring budget,» says Anupma Prakash, a geologist at the University of Alaska with a career - long interest in coal fires.

Some of these handouts are politically expedient because they help start a market in which entrenched interests — such as the coal lobby — would otherwise block progress.

It's in the «best interest and prosperity of future generations» to deploy clean coal technology by 2015, she said, but she added that «early research has shown us this is not viable at this time on a commercial scale.»

«With increasing shale gas fracking and many countries» interest in displacing coal generation with natural gas due to the lower greenhouse gas emissions, natural gas use seems well poised to grow,» the report states.

An NPR story on reactions to the encyclical in the country's top coal - producing state, Wyoming, revealed that some residents were torn between their interests and what Pope Francis has recast as a compelling moral question.

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.

Those «very best» cells are close to becoming cost - competitive with fossil fuels such as coal in some applications but are themselves expensive and impractical for consumer electronics — hence Kyocera's interest in the film.

Interest in biofuels — fuel derived from living organisms including biomass or their metabolic byproducts, such as manure from cows — grew throughout the end of the twentieth century as these are renewable energy sources, unlike other natural resources such as petroleum, coal, and nuclear fuels.

Such ambition seems to suggest endless possibilities for the 14 - year - old Melia, but to leave little room for Caretta, a hometown that can offer only itself — a withered economy carved and emptied out by the coal - mining industry and courted chiefly by corporations interested in building a new landfill there.

People are interested because NY is seen as a canary in the coal mine.

To locate Coal City Ford dealers with the most competitive pricing on new Ford cars and trucks, simply choose the model you're interested in and enter your ZIP code.

The slump in commodity prices has caused a number of railroad stocks to go on sale, and CN looks particularly interesting since it has less exposure to the weakest commodity — coal.

SHERRITT INTERNATIONAL (Toronto symbol S; www.sherritt.com) sold off all of its coal interests for $ 793 million in cash in April 2014.

With the upcoming changes to the way in which financial advisors will have to start disclosing their fees to clients, there were a couple of interesting posts that might be «canaries in the coal mine» for many advisory services.

Visitors can learn about these industries in a series of interesting tours to plantations and open cut coal mines.

A Dragon Named Coal is interesting in that it's an elegant combination of so many sweet spots for indie games.

While the major artists of the movement produced different kinds of work, they were united by an interest in unconventional — typically everyday — materials, evidenced in Mario Merz's Cone (1967), made from willow, and Mario Ceroli's Io (1968), an iron and coal sphere.

If you are not among them, I am sincerely interested in knowing what alternatives can be brought online soon enough to do without the coal plants, or perhaps what real world changes can be made in efficiency.

People's beliefs tend to align neatly with their interests, and in the absence of indisputable proof (and to non-scientists that means the equivalent of a ten - foot rise in sea level inundating South Beach) it is more «convenient» for people to use cheap oil, natural gas and coal.

With even mainstream home builders offering solar options, and some tantalizing hints that solar could be as cheap as coal by 2015, interest in solar for homeowners looks set to rise in coming years.

The climate science also sure is subject to severe political pressures from varying lobbyist groups, first and foremost the oil an coal interests which are huge financial powerhouses especially in the US Senate — a body which in reality dictates the whole global «climate policy» or rather the absence of any such — serious climate politicans round the globe in reality have — as we now have seen — no chance at all against the denying forces and their huge media apparatus, as long as the public don't see some very serious consequences of climate change, fx.

McCain says he doesn't want to waste money subsidizing special interests, but I'm not quite sure what that means in the context of $ 30 billion for the clean coal boondoggle.