Sentences with phrase «coal mining sector»

The U.S. solar industry alone is beginning to overtake the coal mining sector with higher employment figures, according to 2014 data released by the Solar Foundation.

The reality of stranded assets has since been documented to serve as a reminder for investors, eg the decline of the US coal mining sector, the death spiral of EU utilities.

Since the early 1990s, when the coal mining sector was reopened for foreign investment, Indonesia witnessed a robust increase in coal production, coal exports and domestic sales of coal.

From the administration's perspective, the long - declining coal mining sector is looking rosy.

Our view is that capital markets are failing to align the capital allocation process, exposing the owners of fossil fuel companies — their shareholders — to potential lost value, as has already been witnessed in the EU utilities and US coal mining sectors.

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Cambrian's mines are also a source for metallurgical coal, an essential ingredient in steel manufacturing, a sector expected to benefit from President Trump's recent 25 percent tariff on imported steel.

In a region where more than a 1,000 workers were recently laid - off from the coal mines, projects like this offer a much - needed economic boost that helps diversify the local economy and buffer, as the mayor of Tumbler Ridge said, the «devastating shocks» from the regular boom - bust cycle of the traditional resource sectors.

Among the few sectors showing relative strength on Wednesday were gold mining, coal, wireless communications and insurance.

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.

The insurance sector underlined that Alberta is the canary in the coal mine on climate change impacts and that Alberta would be wise to start pricing these risks properly.

The mining sector, which covers workers in the coal, oil and gas trades, has lost 220,000 jobs since peaking in September 2014.

For example, Coal and mining sector.

Today, the city's main industries have shifted entirely away from coal - mining into other sectors such as manufacturing and health - care.

We note on the front page of our website that Peabody Energy is the world's largest private - sector coal company and a global leader in sustainable mining and clean coal solutions.

In addition, that reset will force coal miners to competitively bid for new mines which will only raise fuel prices for an already financially struggling sector.

An Indian company with close ties to Modi, Adani Enterprises, has plans to build a massive new coal mine in Australia in order to feed India's energy sector.

It should help improving transparency in the energy sector and facilitate re-structuring of disrupted coal mining and power generation.

Waller said the dip in Teck's stock price is likely related to a plunge in the entire mining sector Tuesday, rather than the explosion and investor worry about halted coal production from Greenhills.

Aside from economics, the strength of the coal unions in Poland, and government ownership interests in both coal mining and the power sector, mean that the industry is central to both political and social discourse.

Between 2006 and 2011, the Denver - metro area saw a 35 % increase in direct employment growth in the clean energy sector; today more people are employed by the solar industry than the coal mining or steel manufacturing industries.

But if you subtract the $ 1.27 billion / year in subsidies the Queensland coal transport sector received over the six years from 2008 - 09 to 2013 - 14, Queensland's «gain» from its numerous coal mines was only around $ 670 million / year.

That's because U.S. coal companies including Peabody Energy Corp. won't be looking to secure new reserves of the fossil fuel on federal land for years, especially as mining slows amid the sector's worst downturn in generations.

The mining sector shows signs of progress in its operational emissions management, reduced exposure to thermal coal and capital allocation in the context of a low - carbon transition.

More than 769,000 people were employed in renewable energy in the US in 2015, dwarfing the 187,000 employed in the oil and gas sector and the 68,000 in coal mining.

They are seeking to restrict coal mining in Australia by targeting a critical supplier to the sector.

The wind power sector has grown to employ more Americans than coal mining as demand for clean energy has jumped over the past decade.

Electricity's carbon risks could be managed by new nuclear plants and «clean coal,» sustaining and even bolstering many of the power sector's century - old institutions — traditional business models, vendors, and regulators, coal - mining, even railroads.

The renewable energy economy is already larger than the coal economy: The U.S. solar installation sector employs 77 percent more people than the domestic coal mining industry, according to the Solar Foundation's National Solar Jobs Census 2015.

Murray, 77, founder of the largest privately held coal mining company in the U.S., told Monday's Guardian he is confident the president will follow through on promises to scrap the clean power plan, former President Barack Obama's signature climate change plan, which was designed to cut carbon emissions from the power sector by 32 percent by 2030.