Sentences with phrase «coal port expansions»

According to currently available information on planned coal port expansions, committed investment will increase port capacity by an estimated 13 per cent over the next two years or so.

The decision follows the government giving the green light to a major coal port expansion for India's Adani Group on the reef coast in December, under some of the strictest - ever environmental conditions.

Not exact matches

If that and other planned expansions go ahead, Vancouver, which has visions of becoming the world's greenest city, could instead increase its capacity to export the black stuff by almost half, becoming North America's largest coal port.

Those existing ports include Abbot Point, where India's Adani Group and compatriot GVK plan a huge coal terminal expansion, and Gladstone, where ship traffic is set to increase sharply from 2015 as huge new liquefied natural gas plants start exports.

Plans to start mining and exporting coal from one of the country's biggest deposits — the Galilee basin — require the expansion of the Abbot Point shipping port in north Queensland, within the boundaries of the famous marine park.

It's supported by a coalition of local environmental groups that have been fighting tooth and nail to stop the expansion of coal ports - and largely winning.

Coal - port expansion is the fifth most carbon - intensive project currently planned in the world, bigger than anything else over which American politicians have control.

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Peabody stated that exports of coal from the Powder River Basin in Montana and Wyoming will be central to its expansion goals, through coal exports from northwest United States ports.

Proposals for expansion of exports focus on sending coal from the Powder River Basin of Wyoming and Montana over rail lines to West Coast ports for shipment to Asian buyers.

The proposed port expansion in Washington is being developed by Ambre Energy who are also trying to build Australia's first coal to liquid fuels plant in the fertile Felton Valley in Queensland.