Sentences with phrase «coal reserves on»

In fact, the presence of one of the largest coal reserves on Earth was precisely the reason President Clinton created Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument.

Not exact matches

Beyond the reasonably favourable outlook for the next few years, growth in productive capacity and exports in the resources sector over the longer term will depend on future mineral discoveries (though existing reserves could support production and exports of some commodities, such as coal, for a considerable time).

For the time being, much of the analysis on the financial losses focuses on the plunge in oil and coal prices, and the potential that a huge portion of the global reserves of oil, gas, and coal will be «stranded» in the ground to curb climate change.

Lacking the rich oil, coal and other energy reserves of many other nations, Japan relies on nuclear power for some 30 percent of its electricity.

Because, under the guise of offering a «clean» technique for unlocking the energy from coal reserves, engineers are actually concocting a way to increase massively the amount of coal the world can get its hands on.

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If current coal reserves are burned on a time scale short compared to time scales for carbon storage, then CO2 concentrations will go over 400 ppm rather easily.

All that has just been described on the duration of fossil fuel reserves indicates that, given the longevity of coal, it would be the source of energy to be used in the future when other fossil fuels are depleted, a fact that would aggravate the greenhouse effect in the atmosphere.

Gavin, are you aware of the complete disconnect between SRES estimates of fossil fuel reserves, which are based on a single review paper by Roger in 1997, and more recent views regarding peak oil, peak gas, and peak coal?

The share prices of oil, gas and coal companies depend in part on their reserves.

Pollution from coal burning, in the United States and particularly in developing countries, has big impacts on public health, and the climate impact from coal - generated carbon dioxide could be enormous if the world's still - vast reserves are heavily exploited.

An article in the latest issue of The Economist explores whether acknowledgement that some fossil fuel stocks are unburnable means companies with big coal or oil reserves are overvalued, at least on long time horizons.

We really can not be blamed for nature giving us 100 to 1000 years worth of coal, depending on how much dirt we are willing to scrape off these reserves.

Given that the United States, China and other countries sit on vast reserves of coal, and that vast volumes of carbon dioxide will come from conventional use of this energy source, what is the best way forward?

Here's a solution: All the sovereign States with gas, oil, and coal reserves, can use their sovereign power to simply clamp down on production, driving FF prices higher, and achieve the Nirvana New Energy Future as rapidly as is physically possible.

«9 Based on the IEO2006 reference case forecast for coal consumption, and assuming that world coal consumption would continue to increase at a rate of 2.0 percent per year after 2030, current estimated recoverable world coal reserves would last for about 70 years.»

Even after decades of increasingly dire warnings, the US has still not passed comprehensive federal legislation to combat global warming; Canada has abandoned past pledges in order to exploit its emissions - heavy tar sands; China continues to depend on coal for its energy production; Indonesia's effort to stem widespread deforestation is facing stiff resistance from industry; Europe is mulling pulling back on its more ambitious cuts if other nations do not join it; northern nations are scrambling to exploit the melting Arctic for untapped oil and gas reserves; and fossil fuels continue to be subsidized worldwide to the tune of $ 400 billion.

Both China and India, as we all know, are counting on their vast coal reserves to fuel their long - awaited growth.

The 237 - page bill introduced by U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R - AK)-- S. 2012, the Energy Policy Modernization Act of 2015 — includes provisions that would expedite the liquefied natural gas (LNG) export permitting process, heap subsidies on coal technology, and fund research geared toward discovering a way to tap into methane hydrate reserves.

Certainly, the timing of such announcement was made more palatable on news that coal reserves in China have hit new highs after a summer of coal supply shortages that saw blackouts in various Chinese cities.

On its website the company states that in 2008 it produced approximately 69.4 million tons of coal and «controlled approximately 1.75 billion tons of proven and probable coal reserves.»

India remains heavily committed to burning coal and has abundant domestic reserves, although the new government of Narendra Modi has announced plans to bring electricity to 400 million rural Indians through mini-grids run on solar energy.

On its website, Foundation Coal states that «Foundation Affiliates operate multiple mines in the Powder River Basin, Northern Appalachia, and Central Appalachia regions, as well as substantial reserves and an idled mine in the Illinois basin that can be returned to service as market conditions warrant.»

On its website it states that it «controls reserves totaling over 2 billion tons and shipped over 24 million tons of coal in 2006.

The reason both countries, who have large readily available coal reserves are so heavily reliant on fossil fueled electricity generation is because, without carbon pricing, it's slightly cheaper than nuclear power.

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The Europeans pay through the nose because they have essentially burned the majority of their coal reserves and are running on fumes.

On the other hand, Russia's coal reserves are colossal, 189Gt, and are primarily in their Siberian coal fields.

To avoid blackouts governments and / or consumers are forced to fund diesel, gas or coal plants to remain on standby or as spinning reserves until needed.

If the alternative had been adopted the UK would NOW have a working coal industry and plentiful reserves of North Sea oil and Gas and more time to ramp up on sustainable energy production.

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Nevertheless, Australian listed companies spent an estimated AU$ 6 billion on finding and developing more coal reserves, it is revealed.

Endowed with vast reserves in the Thar lignite field and facing a severe energy shortage, Pakistan is betting on domestic and imported coal for electricity supply in the coming years.

Furthermore, AU$ 6billion was spent by Australian listed companies last year on developing these likely «unburnable» coal reserves.

But the 51 gigatonnes of carbon pollution (GtCO2) in the coal reserves that Australian companies already have on their books represent about 25 per cent of a precautionary 200 GtCO2 global carbon budget for coal.

Last year Australian listed companies spent an estimated AU$ 6 billion on developing more coal reserves.

As the United States focuses more on shale gas reserves, India is expected to become the second largest coal consumer in 2017, ranking only behind China.

«America is sitting on a treasure trove of untapped energy on federal lands and hundreds of years of coal energy reserves.

The study notes that current global reserves of coal, oil and gas equate to the release of nearly 3 trillion tonnes of CO2 when used and based on this draws the conclusion that two thirds of this can not be consumed if a global budget were in place that limits emissions to 1.1 trillion tonnes of CO2 for the period 2011 to 2050.

The authors drew on available data to establish global reserves at 1,294 billion barrels of oil, 192 trillion cubic metres of gas, 728 Gt of hard coal and 276 Gt of lignite.

Coal, on the other hand, has larger reserves and the authors conclude that «the only realistic way to sharply curtail CO2 emissions is phase out coal use except where CO2 is captured and sequestered.&raCoal, on the other hand, has larger reserves and the authors conclude that «the only realistic way to sharply curtail CO2 emissions is phase out coal use except where CO2 is captured and sequestered.&racoal use except where CO2 is captured and sequestered.»

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.

An unlikely alliance has emerged in some regions, especially in New South Wales and Queensland, between environmentalists and traditionally hostile farmers to oppose the rapid spread of huge new coal mines on rich agricultural land and coal seam gas reserves being accessed by fracking.

«Santee Cooper will use the large reserve capacity to... reduce its reliance on coal - fired power plants,» South Carolina's The State reported last week.

Victories were seen on four continents: in Bolivia a draconian response to protestors embarrassed the government, causing them to drop plans to build a road through Tipnis, an indigenous Amazonian reserve; in Myanmar, a nation not known for bowing to public demands, large protests pushed the government to cancel a massive Chinese hydroelectric project; in Borneo a three - year struggle to stop the construction of a coal plant on the coast of the Coral Triangle ended in victory for activists; in Britain plans to privatize forests created such a public outcry that the government not only pulled back but also apologized; and in the U.S. civil disobedience and massive marches pressured the Obama Administration to delay a decision on the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, which would bring tar sands from Canada to a global market.

In 112 hours, the sun provides 36 zettajoules of energy — as much energy as is contained in all proven reserves of oil, coal and natural gas on this planet

When we talk about «proof» we're not talking about smoke and mirrors «modelling» based on long - term average wind farm output — which ignores the extra gas and coal being burnt (and wasted) in order to balance the grid to account for wild fluctuations in wind power output (see our post here); and to maintain additional «spinning reserve» (see our post here) to account for complete collapses in wind power output — as seen in this post.

The US has 28 % of coal reserves and appears to plan to sit on them, using a small fraction for local consumption.

``...... * FIFTH, I will lift the restrictions on the production of $ 50 trillion dollars» worth of job - producing American energy reserves, including shale, oil, natural gas and clean coal.

«The value of fossil fuel companies is dependent on reserves of oil, coal, and natural gas — reserves that must remain in the ground for us to have any hope of avoiding dangerous climate change.