Sentences with phrase «coal project as»

There is still time for the World Bank to do the right thing and halt this dirty coal project as well as further WBG support of coal development more generally.

The organisers of the People's Communique are urging Ms Figueres to accept their call for the ban on new coal projects as a formal submission to the talks

Not exact matches

Adani Group, controlled by the billionaire Gautam Adani, said it will now plan to finance the vast Carmichael coal project on its own, but the company faces an uphill struggle as both governments and major banks adopt a harder line towards new coal projects, citing the impact of coal - fired power on climate change.

In addition to tax changes (more on that below), Trump's plan to grow the economy focuses largely on generating more jobs in the fossil fuel economy (in coal and onshore and offshore drilling for oil and gas) and as a result of new infrastructure projects.

If Teck does sanction that project, and copper prices improve, then it's possible that copper could rival steelmaking coal as its biggest moneymaker in the future.

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.

Southern Company has been making a lot of the right moves in my opinion from abandoning the Clean Coal Project to looking to position themselves as a clean energy company.

As for the Kemper Clean Coal project the company decided to scrap the project and instead decided to turn it into a natural gas powered facility.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

One recommendation by the alliance takes aim at Ontario government energy policy that could also double as climate policy, as the province has curtailed greenhouse gas emissions coming from the electricity sector by closing coal - fired power plants, invested in costly solar and wind energy projects, and instituted a cap - and - trade system that requires businesses to buy permits to cover their carbon emissions.

It is clear that onshore wind projects in the right location are going to be as cheap as coal and gas within the next few years, if not already.

I would like to share with you the work of our senior economist Marc Lee, who heads up our Climate Justice Project, as well as the work of one of our research associates, veteran earth scientist David Hughes (who spent 32 years working for the Geological Survey of Canada, where he focused on unconventional gas, coal and oil research).

The Japanese firm already has stakes in gas fields in eastern Australia, where it has worked closely with AWE, and also owns stakes in liquefied natural gas projects in Western Australia, as well as coal and iron ore mines.

NSW will cancel coal seam gas exploration licences applications covering 43 per cent of the state as part of a new plan to regain community support for a few carefully vetted strategic projects.

Preston Chiaro, group executive, Technology & Innovation, said that the California project is an excellent strategic fit for Rio Tinto as it will use coal or petcoke as a feedstock.

Oil Change International, another environmental organization, said that as the bank shifts away from coal, it is taking a larger and troubling interest in natural gas and big hydropower projects.

Yet, the government has launched a pilot project to address the problem by capturing and storing the carbon dioxide (CO2) produced by using coal as a fuel for electricity generation at a power plant dubbed GreenGen.

The announcements reflect a continuing trend of lenders and Wall Street institutions stepping away from fossil fuel projects, in particular coal and cost - intensive oil projects, such as offshore and Arctic drilling.

Environmentalists, many of whom believe that the term «clean coal» is an oxymoron, nonetheless view the project's cancellation as yet another indication that the Bush administration lacks the commitment required to reduce the rate of growth in atmospheric carbon dioxide emissions.

While country - specific effects would be varied, IMF projects that eliminating post-tax subsidies for the most - polluting energy fuels, such as coal and gasoline, could raise government revenue by $ 2.9 trillion, while also slashing premature deaths from pollution - related diseases by more than 50 percent.

Currently, there are five coal - fired power plants registered as emission reduction projects under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), an international offsetting program run by an arm of the United Nations.

The panel argues that the current rules as written let supercritical coal plant developers claim avoided emissions by comparing their projects to power plant technology that's now a decade old.

China Energy News, a state - run newspaper, cited a policymaker Monday as saying that China will complete the construction of approved coal - to - natural - gas plants but will not approve new projects until 2020, aiming to keep its coal - based synthetic natural gas production capacity to 15 billion cubic meters at the end of the decade.

EnBW participates in the project to further reduce CO2 emission of coal combustion as a bridge technology.

Pilot projects in Algeria, Japan, and Norway indicate that CO2 can be stored in underground geologic formations such as depleted oil and gas reservoirs, deep coal seams, and saline aquifers.

As coal waste grows, large reuse projects are taking place throughout the country, some with toxic consequences.

December 8, 2017 India's steel industry, like America's, is dominated by electric - based processes November 20, 2017 Link between growth in economic activity and electricity use is changing around the world November 16, 2017 Growth in global energy - related carbon dioxide emissions expected to slow November 8, 2017 EIA forecasts growth in world nuclear electricity capacity, led by non-OECD countries October 25, 2017 China leads the growth in projected global natural gas consumption October 10, 2017 Buildings energy consumption in India is expected to increase faster than in other regions October 4, 2017 Global gas - to - liquids growth is dominated by two projects in South Africa and Uzbekistan September 27, 2017 Chinese coal - fired electricity generation expected to flatten as mix shifts to renewables September 19, 2017 Beyond China and India, energy consumption in non-OECD Asia continues to grow September 14, 2017 EIA projects 28 % increase in world energy use by 2040

As part of an extremely small group of PR scientists for hire, both Michaels and Balling worked for the Western Fuels coal coalition and its fraudulent Greening Earth Society project, led at the time by Peabody coal lobbyist Fred Palmer.

Australia's Syngas Limited has engaged Rentech to provide Fischer - Tropsch fuels production preliminary engineering services for Syngas» proposed commercial scale coal and biomass to liquids (CBTL) fuels facility in Southern Australia, known as the Clinton Project.

Yet, these are often the sort of moves that can create diamonds almost as often as coal, and with the right unproven director and the right project, things can turn out quite well indeed.

We will seek to avoid the following: • Bonds that finance projects with substantial sustainability concerns such as first - generation biofuels, waste - to - energy plants using toxic substances, or projects that prolong fossil fuel dependence such as refurbishment of coal power plants.

Featuring work from the gallery's extensive collection as well as contemporary commissions, it includes Kai Wiedenhöfer's series on refugee children, Forty Out of One Million, and Wendy Erwald's 1970s project, Portrait and Dreams, a collaboration with children she taught in a coal - mining community in the Appalachians.

But as Congress considers billions of dollars in aid for projects to make gasoline and diesel substitutes from coal, and to build coal - fired plants that would capture their own carbon emissions, the study said that estimates of coal reserves were unreliable.

«That's an amount that exceeds the most dire outlook for emissions from burning coal and oil and related activities as projected by [IPCC]... in 2007.

Coal has been the fastest growing fuel in the world for the past decade, and has been projected to pass oil as the world's largest energy source next year.

Once the nation is committed to action, the government and private sector could concentrate their thinking on whether very large - scale infrastructure investments would need to be supported with public funds ---- projects such as solarization of the grid, new coal power plants with carbon capture and sequestration, etc..

Factor in the «carbon light» CO2 from coal seam gas projects in the East (and other LNG expansion in the north and west) and you're talking about Australia's fossil fuel emission exports equating to TWO Saudi Arabias by 2020, not one as I've been saying to many disbelieving ears.

Organizations that are publicizing the hydro - geological report (Earthjustice, the Environmental Integrity Project, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy and Tennessee Clean Water Network) said that the failed TVA pond had been built using coal ash as a construction material, and that some of the other existing impoundments were constructed in a similar manner.

They also recommended prompt investment in projects aimed at capturing and permanently storing carbon dioxide from power plants on a large scale — something that many energy experts say has to happen because coal will continue being used as a fuel for decades.

Projects have multiplied as the nation provides financial support to its solar companies in a bid to diversify the coal - dependent energy industry.

Sounds like a good idea if you understand coal's contribution to CO2 emissions, but if you understood the actual project, the proposal was actually as close to green as coal could get.

The research began as a project looking into using quick - growing algae to sequester carbon in CO2 emissions from coal power plants.

Fully contracted renewable energy projects have the least transition risk while older, inefficient merchant coal plants are likely to suffer disproportionately from the financial effects of carbon transition such as lower wholesale prices, the cost of carbon credits, lower capacity factors and increased operating or capital costs, according to the report.

Everyone knows that environmental groups oppose the construction of coal and nuclear plants — but do they also oppose wind and solar projects as well?

The study concluded that it is just as difficult to build a wind farm as it is to build a coal - fired plant, with about 45 % of all challenged projects now being «renewable energy.»

As a result, China has sensibly halted the production of biofuels derived from grain - based feedstock and most (but not all) of its originally proposed coal liquefaction projects.

With a similar goal, Google launched a project in 2007 known as RE < C (Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal)-- which «aimed to develop renewable energy sources that would generate electricity more cheaply than coal - fired power plantsCoal)-- which «aimed to develop renewable energy sources that would generate electricity more cheaply than coal - fired power plantscoal - fired power plants do.

The agency projects that, by 2017, coal will rival oil as the world's primary energy source, mainly because of skyrocketing demand in Asia.

We know that coal is a bad investment internationally, as projects face bankruptcy in India and storage facilities in China near capacity with unused coal supplies.

As part of their «Climate Pact» the US and China aim to use advanced coal technologies, including a major CCS project in China.