Sentences with phrase «coal mine operator»

But when Bumi shares dropped in price and triggered margin calls, the Bakries sold half their shares in Bumi to Samin Tan, an Indonesian coal operator.

The levy is aimed at forcing coal operators to slash their emissions and stop Germany from falling short of its target to cut greenhouse gases by 40 percent by 2020 compared to 1990 levels.

The march follows the route of thousands of coal miners in what became the historic Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921 — the largest class warfare armed confrontation in U.S. labor history, when miners battled police and strikebreakers backed by the coal operators for five days seeking to unionize the coalfields, until the President ordered the U.S. Army to put down the insurrection.

The march commemorates the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921, when 10,000 coal miners rose against the rule of the coal operators and fought for the basic right to live and work in decent conditions.

Thanks to the mineworkers» union and community pressure, Bonds and other activists filled a lawsuit against coal operators forced companies to haul safe and legal loads.

The department and the coal operator, owner or lessee shall be given at least 72 hours» notice prior to commencement of work protecting the mine.

In 2005, Roberts wrote a paper for the Australasian Coal Operators» Conference titled: «Understanding Organisational and Personal Behaviours to Sustain High Productivity and Safety».

Not exact matches

So, all bankers and stockbrokers might not go the way of the coal miner, telephone operator, or record store clerk.

Heavy - equipment operators, truck drivers, mechanics and engineers from the coal industry may be able use their know - how in a variety of businesses, including the fledgling drone industry that's emerging in Hazard.

We had a former coal mine operator, a motorcycle dealership owner, a commercial airline pilot, a security special operations manager, a real estate broker, a person from the private equity sector, a hedge fund manager, a car dealership manager, and a person that worked in digital marketing.

However, the Newcastle port operator's decision to introduce a quota system to allocate transport chain capacity and reduce the ship queue is one illustration that provides clear evidence that a shortage of transport capacity is limiting the industry's ability to meet strong growth in coal demand.

However, in the case of coal, major increases in export capacity will require better coordination between producers, infrastructure operators and governments, especially in respect of the financing and pricing of new transport infrastructure.

There are substitutes for oil, gas and coal, as many investors and power plant operators are discovering; there is no such thing for water.

«Simple operation and maintenance means no daily operator requirements and very little annual plant maintenance, says Mr Bambridge, whose company's installations of the FAST system have been proven in Australian applications including: Alcoa, BHP - Billiton, Bechtel Pacific, Blair Athol Coal, Blue Circle Southern Cement, Cadia Gold, Dampier Salt and Wakefield Colliery.

He is also a coal - mine operator, a car dealer, a political campaign manager, a hardware - store proprietor, an agent for the Fabulous Harlem Magicians and a promoter of scores of entertainers from Lawrence Welk to The Supremes.

Environmental groups are concerned the new operators want to keep burning coal, when New York is so close to phasing out all of its coal plants.

Grid operators, aware of the impending shortfall, spun up alternative generation from coal, gas and hydroelectric systems to meet it.

When coal is burned in a power plant, operators make sure the fire gets plenty of oxygen so that it burns hot enough to produce the most possible energy and the fewest by - products.

While investment in China's power grid has risen substantially, the country still has some of the world's highest curtailment rates for renewable energy, meaning thousands of turbines are taken offline, even under optimum wind conditions, because grid operators lack the knowledge and skills to integrate the clean energy with other sources, including baseload power from coal plants.

A new Chinese law requires power grid operators to buy all the electricity produced by renewable energy generators, in a move that will increase the proportion of energy that comes from renewable sources in coal - dependent China.

Facts about her family - a homesteader whose name was Bonnycastle, like the Reverend in the novel, and a grandfather who was a coal mine operator in Edmonton - appear in the novel.

This puts pressure on the national system of natural gas pricing, and the resulting effect is that power operators in other states seek to avoid paying higher prices by shifting more to coal.

Environmentalists will rejoice at this, but the trend is so swift that owners and operators of electric power systems are legitimately worrying about whether the decline of coal will undermine reliability of the electric grid and also make the nation too dependent on natural gas.

Essentially, the grid operator's proposal would raise prices across the RTO to provide incentives to «inflexible» generating units such as coal and nuclear.

The CO2 Scorecard report, by contrast, examined changes in electricity at the regional level using data from grid operators, which showed researchers greater detail about where natural gas had replaced coal or renewables; where renewables replaced coal; and where electricity consumption simply declined because of reduced demand.

The grid operator testified that «wholesale energy prices and emissions will rise when extreme weather results in natural gas pipeline constraints — driving up the price of natural gas (and wholesale energy) and forcing New England to rely on oil - and coal - fired generation for multi-day (or multi-week) periods.»

The 14 - state grid operator is calling for a reform to compensation mechanisms to reflect resilience attributes, in language familiar to anyone who has followed Secretary Perry's proposed coal and nuke bailout.

However, UtilityDive notes that that coal - and nuclear - heavy PJM is the only grid operator to specifically ask for compensation reforms in its initial comments.

This strategy would cut losses for all of Europe's 15 largest coal plant operators, except Italy's Enel and Romania's CE Oltenia.

... Because fossil - fuel power plants can not easily ramp down generation in response to excess supply on the grid, on sunny, windy days there is sometimes so much power in the system that the price goes negative — in other words, operators of large plants, most of which run on coal or natural gas, must pay commercial customers to consume electricity....

The NRDC cites the «2016 State of the Market» report by PJM, the largest grid operator in North America, as showing that «new entrant natural gas - fired combined cycle plants, combustion turbine plants, and solar are economical, but that new coal and nuclear plants are not.»

Mostly for reliability reasons, plant operators maintain stockpiles within certain ranges (usually about 50 to 80 days) even though coal supply disruptions of that duration are relatively unlikely.

In January, FERC, an independent regulatory government agency that is officially organized as part of the Department of Energy (DOE), thwarted a DOE proposal to require independent system operators and regional transmission organizations to establish «just and reasonable» rates for resilient and reliable plants, such as coal and nuclear baseload generators.

Five of the six regional grid operators and companies outside the coal and nuclear sector argued FERC should not issue a «universal resilience standard» or direct changes to plant compensation, instead allowing grid operators to identify and address resilience challenges independently with FERC guidance.

Many other countries also have requirements that grid operators priorities the dispatch of power from renewable sources, even if it is more expensive than coal - fired baseload plants.

The mayor's husband is a shovel operator at Caballo mine, owned by one the largest coal companies in the United States, Peabody Energy.

BEIJING (Reuters)- A new Chinese law requires power grid operators to buy all the electricity produced by renewable energy generators, in a move that will increase the proportion of energy that comes from renewable sources in coal - dependent China.

The grid operator is also in the midst of a plan to let subsidized coal and nuclear plants leapfrog over competitors in bidding into that annual capacity auction.

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Investments in top coal plant operators are invariably investments in a 4 °C world,» says Yann Louvel from the NGO BankTrack.

Divestment actions must also be based on absolute thresholds that exclude all of the top coal producers and top coal plant operators,» says Schuecking.

Yet in 2014, the GBRMA approved a permit for a state - owned coal terminal operator to dump as much as 3 million cubic meters of dredged mud and sediment inside the park.

Fukushima presented an opportunity for AGL Energy because it meant that Tepco, the plant's operator, was no longer in a position to invest in Loy Yang A and was a distressed seller of its one third stake in Loy Yang A. AGL Energy, which already had a 32.5 per cent stake in the plant, says Loy Yang A will remain one of the lowest cost generators in the NEM because of cheap coal at the doorstep — it pays just $ 6 / t for brown coal, which would give it a massive advantage over black coal generators in NSW, which are facing costs of $ 45 / t and will go higher in future years.

The PJM independent system operator (ISO) said there is no imminent danger to the grid when it was asked about the First Energy bankruptcy filing and First Energy's request of FERC for cost recovery for its nuclear and coal - fired power plants.

PJM vice president Stu Bresler said the plan described in the grid operator's November 15 report was in the works well before the Department of Energy proposed rules to guarantee cost recovery for coal and nuclear plants in the PJM region and certain other competitive markets.

Low natural gas prices make gas - fired generation economically attractive during periods of low demand when operators in many parts of the country have more flexibility to choose between coal - and natural gas - fired units based on their dispatch cost.

Requires the Administrator to: (1) request information from owners / operators of coal - fired electric generation facilities about hazardous air pollutants other than mercury; and (2) propose and promulgate emission standards.

(Sec. 504) Directs the Secretary to promulgate final regulations to require mine operators to use environmental controls to give miners the maximum feasible protection from respirable dust, including coal and silica dust.

The capacity market approach pays utilities and other operators billions of pounds to commit to keep their coal, gas, nuclear and hydro power plants open, for up to four years ahead, regardless of whether they were planning to do this anyway, and regardless of whether they generate any electricity.

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