Sentences with phrase «coal supply shortages»

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.

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China had seen slowdowns in the growth in electricity supplies recently, often because of shortages of coal or the ability to get the fuel where it was needed.

Without the recent extensions, the electricity market would have faced a severe shortage of supply that would have been «nothing short of catastrophic» and resulted in more coal - or gas - fired power plants being built and increased greenhouse gas emissions, Was said.

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.

Second, relying on unconventional oil like tar sands and liquid coal to make up a supply shortage, as the oilmen say we must, would be climate catastrophe.