Sentences with phrase «coal plant sites»

Break Free Cebu amplified the grassroots voices opposing the proposed Ludo coal thermal - powered plant, and of demanding justice for the affected communities in other coal plant sites in the province.

«There is a great opportunity in the re-development of a coal plant sites, and there are a lot of decisions to be made of who bears the responsibility in cleaning in it up and what happens next,» says Emily Rosenwasser, a Sierra Club spokesperson.

They had formed Footprint Power in 2009 to develop new, cleaner generation at coal plant sites.

In the U.S., a range of legislation and regulation at the federal and state levels governs miner safety, coal mine reclamation, coal plant siting, thermal pollution from coal plant cooling, coal combustion emissions, and disposal of coal waste.

Not exact matches

Perry has repeatedly said that storing fuel on site makes coal and nuclear plants less prone to shutdowns than other power generators in the event of disasters and attacks.

Base load power, the residual power that has to be generated day - in, day - out, came primarily from burning coal, typically in a plant located right at a mine site owned by the power company.

The company also prohibits construction financing of single - site coal - fired power plants that lack the most advanced environmental control processes.

With that said, I am an environmental engineer who specializes in reducing greenhouse gas and particulate emissions from coal fired power plants, natural gas fracking sites, and landfills.

OAK PARK — The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency has directed Commonwealth Edison and Nicor Gas to revise the plan for removing coal tar and benzene from the site of a former gas manufacturing plant in south Oak Park that for years has been a community park.

NRG now promises to invest $ 1.6 billion at the Tonawanda site by 2013 to install a new gasification plant that will burn low - sulfur coal and reduce harmful emissions.

«We established the state's first carbon dioxide emissions standard when siting new power plants which will ensure that no new dirty, coal - burning plants will be built in the State of New York, period,» Cuomo said.

It sits on a site purchased by the city that once contained a rail yard, a laundry and a plant that made gas from coal.

Banta imagines siting bacteria farms near coal plants to convert troublesome carbon emissions into valuable fuel.

The plant's new owner, Footprint Power, will demolish the coal plant, clean the 65 - acre site, then build an advanced 674 - megawatt gas plant that has one - third the footprint.

Massachusetts has offered $ 6 million to Somerset, Salem and Holyoke, site of a third aging coal plant, to pursue renewable energy projects, but state officials say decisions about the future are up to communities.

TVA will also shut down its existing coal - fired Allen Fossil Plant in Memphis and build a new gas - fired plant on an adjacent Plant in Memphis and build a new gas - fired plant on an adjacent plant on an adjacent site.

According to Obama's Web site, the U.S. Department of Energy under his control would work with private companies to design five clean - coal plants that take advantage of carbon capture and sequestration.

Another particulate, secondary sulfates (formed in the atmosphere from emissions, such as those from coal - fired power plants), had the highest concentration (between 30 and 44 percent) of all pollutants at urban and rural sites, with readings being mostly uniform across locations.

To verify emissions from the San Juan and Four Corners coal - fired power plants, the Los Alamos team deployed ground - based solar spectrometers and point sensors to measure atmospheric concentrations of gases at a site close to these power plants.

The numbers held when they examined potential CO2 storage sites close to the nation's largest greenhouse gas emitters, such as coal plants.

In the United States, saline aquifers are believed to have the largest capacity for CO2 storage, with potential sites spread out across the country, and several in western states such as Colorado also host large coal power plants.

Next, they collected effluents from coal ash facilities at power plants in North Carolina and Tennessee and compared it to both coal ash residue they had previously collected at the site of the massive 2008 Tennessee Valley Authority power plant spill in Kingston, Tenn., and to the laboratory test results.

Response: Ideally, SMRs should be readily able to slot into brownfield sites in place of decommissioned coal - fired plants, the units of which are seldom very large.

Pure Color of the Hudson (after Rodchenko) Remediated polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) mud obtained from General Electric dredging site, processed waste coal from power plants in the Hudson Valley on Sintra, in Matthew Friday's Space as Substance: Beyond the Scenic Hudson, 2015.

Rovner was recently invited to present a site - specific installation at the UNESCO world heritage site Mischanlage, (a former industrial plant once used to mix coal) in Essen for the Ruhr Triennale: International Festival of the Arts: 2012 — 2014.

With a palette of otherworldly yellows and greens, the paintings depict the largest coal electric plants in the United States, all of which are sited in impoverished rural areas and shrouded in tree cover.

Even as the United States sees individual battles over siting new coal - burning plants, India and China are building them as fast as they can raise the money and find the cement and steel.

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.»

[52] The report mentioned Arkansas based Flint Creek Power Plant and the Independence Steam Station were two sites that have groundwater contamination due to coal ash waste.

We're also in the final stages of negotiating a Community Benefits Agreement for the site of the former coal plants, and are working to ensure that the new site will provide plenty of open space as well as other benefits for Little Village residents.

AEP's Conesville Power Plant coal ash site is also a landfill.

By contrast, most coal plants keep just 74 days worth of coal on site, because of the high cost of storing so much energy - dilute fuel.

Nuclear fuel is over one million times more «energy dense» than coal, and so it's easy for nuclear plants to keep several years worth of fuel on - site.

The billions of tons of coal combustion waste produced by power plants needs to be stored somewhere, often in waste sites that are inadequately engineered to avoid dangerous spills or leaching of hazardous chemicals into groundwater supplies.

The site revealed Steyer has had direct, personal involvement in assembling a portfolio of strategic investments in overseas coal mines and coal - fired power plants unprecedented in scale.

The industrial site that has and continues to produce countless iconic Kodak products over the past century enjoyed another historical milestone when it officially said farewell to using coal to fuel its onsite power plant.

The Department of Energy recently issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) on grid resiliency that would have guaranteed cost - plus - profit returns to generators that store 90 days of fuel on - site — coal and nuclear plants.

Coalfield Development, a nonprofit social enterprise in West Virginia, is working to turn former coal mining areas and mountaintop removal sites into farmland and forest, using farm animals to root out invasive plants and fertilize the depleted soil.

[Translate] The site of the Kingston Fossil Plant coal ash spill three years after the disaster.

The proposed rule from the Department of Energy calls on FERC to revise its pricing rules to guarantee recovery of costs and profits for various coal and nuclear plants with on - site fuel storage.

Update: The FutureGen Alliance, the industry group behind the «clean coal» project just named Mattoon, Ill. as the site for the plant.

If you wanted to build a coal or nuclear plant, you'd be limited by capital to fund a plant, land on which to site it, and the patience and expertise to get through the years - long process of building it.

However, PJM referred to that general plan last fall in its comments on Perry's proposal to guarantee sales and profits for all coal and nuclear plants with fuel storage on site.

Also 10 or so people jumped the fences and stopped the conveyor belt that fed coal from the mining site to the nearby power plant.

The impacts of coal plants are felt keenly by citizens in Bosnia and Herzegovina, who are kept in the dark about the process for siting new ones.

«It was all about a need to site a zillion new coal plants.

Coal - fueled power plants maintain an average coal stockpile on site that can last two months or lonCoal - fueled power plants maintain an average coal stockpile on site that can last two months or loncoal stockpile on site that can last two months or longer.

Perry has filed a proposed rulemaking that asks the federal regulators (two of which are Trump appointees, with an additional two more pending Senate approval) to approve of the rule in order to allow power market operators to establish a new tariff for power plants that have a 90 - day fuel supply on site — a naked nod to coal and nuclear plants.

In China and India alone, scattered across more than 100 sites, some 68 GW worth of coal plant construction was frozen in place.

Buschhaus is a modern power plant site and our high - quality coal will also ensure the economic operation of the power plant in future.