Sentences with phrase «coal operations in»

The public health costs of pollution from coal operations in Appalachia amount to a staggering $ 75 billion a year

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The giant mining operations of Asia stack thousands of computers in dimly lit factory buildings powered by cheap electricity from coal - fed generating plants.

The U.K. - based bank, whose operations are increasingly concentrated in Asia, said it will make up to $ 100 billion available for financing low - carbon projects, while stopping the financing of mines that produce coal for power generation.

A person familiar with the matter told Reuters these coal operations have increased Mylan's net earnings by around $ 40 million to $ 50 million in each of the past two years.

BHP's total earnings for the December half were below expectations due in part to a jump in «controllable costs» at the met coal operations, so this turnaround is needed.

It's across the border in British Columbia's densely populated lower mainland where a recent proposal to expand Port Metro Vancouver's Surrey operation could offer a backdoor exit for U.S. coal to escape to Asia.

Disclosing the Facts: Transparency and Risk in Methane Emissions focuses on the critical risk of methane emissions and how companies are managing methane reduction, reflecting rising investor concern that excessive methane emissions from oil and gas operations will undercut the potential net climate benefit of substituting natural gas for coal, especially in decarbonizing energy markets.

Annette began her career as a development officer with the Cape Breton Development Corporation, a coal mining operation, in Sydney, Nova Scotia.

By: Victor Moolman 21st October 2016 Mining equipment supplier Tenova Takraf Africa is offering junior miners in the surface mining industry a tailor - made package that will help new mining operations produce State - owned power utility Eskom - grade coal.

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.

BHP Billiton said on Thursday jobs could go at its Australian coal mines as the company faces a deteriorating market, the latest sign of global miners scaling back operations due to slowing industrial activity in China.

Prior to working as a securities analyst Maurice worked for 6 years with Anglo American in their Platinum and Coal operations based in both the Johannesburg and London offices.

The company had sold its coal division in 2014 leaving them with a cleaner operation (not to count that the coal industry is not doing so well).

In addition to the positive fundamentals for coal and the likely pickup in orders come 09, FCA is also diversifying its operations by developing non coal rail cars and an active exploration of international opportunitieIn addition to the positive fundamentals for coal and the likely pickup in orders come 09, FCA is also diversifying its operations by developing non coal rail cars and an active exploration of international opportunitiein orders come 09, FCA is also diversifying its operations by developing non coal rail cars and an active exploration of international opportunities.

But soon after, the multinational closed its plant in Brockville, Ontario, to relocate operations in West Virginia where coal - powered energy is much cheaper.

In addition to the Company's mining operations, the Company markets and broker coals from its operations and other coal producers, both as principal and agent, and trade coal and freight - related contracts through trading and business offices.

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

«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.

In addition to the Oswego operation, NRG runs coal - fired plants in Dunkirk and Tonawanda that were built in the 1950In addition to the Oswego operation, NRG runs coal - fired plants in Dunkirk and Tonawanda that were built in the 1950in Dunkirk and Tonawanda that were built in the 1950in the 1950s.

Productivity improvements in our Australian operations led to record quarterly thermal coal production.

Chief executive Tom Albanese said «We have set new quarterly records for iron ore sales and hard coking coal production as our operations recovered from the severe weather experienced earlier in the year.

This year Rio Tinto has announced agreed sales totalling US$ 2.5 billion, including US$ 850 million for the undeveloped potash assets in Argentina and Canada, US$ 750 million for the Corumbá iron ore operation in Brazil, US$ 761 million for the Jacobs Ranch coal mine in the United States and US$ 125 million for the Ningxia aluminium smelter in China.

The Dunkirk and Huntley coal plants in Western New York will both cease operations by March.

«The reason is because some local government officials are investing in those small coal mining companies,» he said, adding that the collusion of the local government and small coal miners thwarts Beijing's efforts to shut down the low - tech coal companies whose operations often harm the environment.

But EPA also recently approved 42 permits for Appalachian mining operations, including some mountaintop mines, and sided with the coal industry in opposing the rehearing of an appeals court case that could have decided whether the Army Corps has been improperly handling mountaintop permits.

The research also found that fracking operations in shale rock generally had their furthest detected microseismic events at greater distances than those in coal and sandstone rocks.

It has participated in lawsuits surrounding the operation's environmental impact — leaks from the mine's coal ash ponds have been an environmental concern in the area for years (Greenwire, Oct. 23, 2013).

While oil and natural gas operations may have taken something of a downturn in the state over the last five years, Wyoming is still, incontestably, coal country.

The map above shows locations of coal mines and plants as of 1997, with nearly 1,400 active operations, while the map below illustrates the top five coal producing states in the United States.

In Pennsylvania's anthracite coal country, underground mine mapping became law by the late - 19th century, although the practice was not observed by all mining operations.

But to date there is just one carbon capture system in commercial operation at a power station, the Boundary Dam coal plant that Canada's SaskPower utility opened last year.

Spending on school operations — not including school construction or debt payments — ranges from less than $ 8,700 per student in a coal country district, one of the state's lowest - achieving, to more than $ 26,600 in a tony Philadelphia suburb.

The company had sold its coal division in 2014 leaving them with a cleaner operation (not to count that the coal industry is not doing so well).

And if the business can be built back up to 2007 earnings levels, $ 1.42 per share (yes, that included the coal and minerals operations which have since been sold) and we ascribed a 10x multiple we might be looking at over $ 14.00 a share in market value, not a bad potential upside.

The AEP River Operations segment engages in the commercial barging operations that transports liquids, coal and dry bulk commodities primarily on the Ohio, Illinois and lower Mississippi Rivers.

For over 125 years this historic, vintage coal - fired, steam powered train has been in continuous operation.

That is why converting these to plug - in operation to enable tapping into coal as a heat source, is indeed quite a foolish act.

The Big Cajun 2 plant consists of three coal - fired steam units with a total capacity of 1700 MW and has been in operation since 1981.

But the coal industry has been pressuring the EPA to reconsider the standard, pushing to weaken regulations that could affect dozens of decades - old, heavily - polluting coal plants like Indianapolis» Harding Street Station, which has been in operation for 54 years.

Original post In 2011, a Cornell research team led by the environmental scientist Robert Howarth published «Methane and the greenhouse - gas footprint of natural gas from shale formations,» a widely discussed paper positing that gas escaping from drilling operations using hydraulic fracturing, widely known as fracking, made natural gas a bigger climate threat than the most infamous fossil fuel, coal.

Just been looking up the sources for commercial CO2 and here is a short exerpt from google: «The most common operations from which commercially - produced carbon dioxide is recovered are industrial plants which produce hydrogen or ammonia from natural gas, coal, or other hydrocarbon feedstock, and large - volume fermentation operations in which plant products are made into ethanol for human consumption, automotive fuel or industrial use.

The latest evidence comes in an Earth Day news release from Peabody Energy, the largest private coal company, which is thriving both domestically and through rapidly growing coal exports from its worldwide mining operations to China, India and other developing countries.

The multiple rivers that carry torrential tropical / sub-tropic rains to the coast will be immediately affected in the river mouths and that will get worse and WILL fundamentally CHANGE THE LANDSCAPE OF 2,300 kilometres OF Coastline, m river systems and farming land and cities and towns and villages and MINING OPERATIONS like open cut coal mines etc inland before one gets to the great dividing range which BTW supports a population of approximately 1 million people and contributes possibly 25 % or more of QLD GDP and it's massive Exports to the world including FOOD SUPPLY.

For years, Alcoa had been mired in a dispute with environmentalists and the federal Department of Justice over emissions from its coal - fired power plant operations on the site.»

This is relevant because the greenhouse impact of leaks and emissions from gas operations remains an important consideration, even as new research supports the role of gas in cutting emissions relative to coal.

And given that Toyota is by no means the only corporation aiming for 100 % renewable energy in its manufacturing operations, the coal giants are likely fretting too.

In best practice a detailed rehabilitation or reclamation plan is designed and approved for each coal mine, covering the period from the start of operations until well after mining has finished.

That project would include the closure of DEP's existing 379 MW Asheville 1 and 2 coal units and construction of about 752 MW of natural gas - fired generation (two 280 MW combined cycle units proposed to commence operations in 2019 and an optional 192 MW combustion turbine unit proposed to commence operations in 2023).

In other markets where windpower was significant, like the Midwest / Central and Texas regions, the large majority of negative pricing were attributed to nuclear, coal and less flexible natural gas power plant operations unable to adjust as demand changed.

In one example from the report, government - backed Yancoa last year bought Rio Tinto's thermal coal mine operations in Australia's Hunter ValleIn one example from the report, government - backed Yancoa last year bought Rio Tinto's thermal coal mine operations in Australia's Hunter Vallein Australia's Hunter Valley.