Sentences with phrase «debate over coal»

There is a chance that the ABC could move towards «balance» in their reporting, most likely forced by a debate over coal usage.

Not exact matches

When coal - fired power plants close communities can face painful transitions, and the debate over one Massachusetts facility shows the local impacts of a national shift to cleaner power

The findings, reported today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, add to a burgeoning debate over the climate impact of replacing oil - and coal - fired power plants with those fuelled by natural gas.

Recently, the government, headed by Prime Minister Tony Abbott, triggered a public debate over plans to construct potentially the world's largest coal port adjacent to the Great Barrier Reef, a UNESCO World Heritage Area, and to excise 74,000 hectares of forest from Tasmania's World Heritage — listed site.

It is a sign of the times that the public debate among major players over Oregon's coal - free future saw little contention regarding the reality of climate change and focused mostly on the best way to address it.

But worldwide emissions have continued to swell, driven mainly by blistering economic growth and coal burning in Asia; debate over a new climate treaty has stalled; lawmakers of both parties have not embraced legislation aimed at cutting emissions; and polls show the public still largely disengaged.

He now finds himself at the center of the debate over America's coal future.

You avoid debating the issues (such as nuclear replacement for coal in electricity generation across the world would avoid over a million of fatalities per year by 2050).

This strategy could help policy makers overcome a fundamental conflict in the debate over global warming: carbon dioxide, the main heat - trapping gas in the air, is an unavoidable byproduct of burning fossil fuels like coal and oil — and combustion of fossil fuels is the foundation of industrial societies.

In the coming months, as Congress and the Obama administration dole out billions in stimulus dollars to kick - start a green economy and draft sweeping legislation to curb climate change, the future of coal will be at the heart of the debate over energy policy.

The debate over global warming has created predictable adversaries, pitting environmentalists against industry and coal - state Democrats against coastal liberals.

(Editor's Note: Another repost at a time when we need to remind people of how McGuinty has destroyed rural Ontario) Whenever I get into a debate with someone over wind turbines, they always haul out that old dated nugget about coal plants.

Thanks to the lobbying work of the coal and oil companies, and the vast army of thinktanks, PR consultants and astroturfers they have sponsored, thanks too to the domination of the airwaves by loony right shock jocks, the debate over issues like this has become so mad that any progress at all is little short of a miracle.

As hearings begin this afternoon on landmark climate change legislation, the debate will bear the mark of an unprecedented corporate campaign over the past year to preserve coal's role in the nation's energy future.