Sentences with phrase «exported more coal»

Instead of Australia dumping millions of tonnes of sludge onto their Great Barrier Reef so they can export more coal to be burned (8 February, p 7), why don't they send it to an island country that needs it because of rising sea levels caused by climate change, such as Tuvalu in Polynesia?

Instead of Australia dumping millions of tonnes of sludge onto their Great Barrier Reef so they can export more coal...

Australia will dump millions of tonnes of sludge inside the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park so that it can export more coal.

The United States is a net exporter of coal, meaning that it exports more coal to other countries than it imports.

Not exact matches

Canada's exports to China — and more broadly, Asia — have long been concentrated in commodities such as coal, metals, agricultural, and forestry products, with very few exports of consumer and commercial goods and services.

More important, climate activists argue, the export of surplus coal negates America's own reductions in greenhouse - gas emissions, simply pushing the problem offshore.

Price difference makes profitable to export cheaper hydro power from the Nordic market to Germany, which relies more on coal and gas to generate power.

For all its green bona fides, the province has been mining coal for more than 100 years and exporting it for more than 40.

«We see a Chinese economy gradually shifting from construction to consumption, and so, we will transition,» said Mackenzie adding that «We imagine we will continue to creep our exports of steelmaking materials like metallurgical coal and iron ore, but we're much more likely to make major investments in what we feel are the next phase of China's growth in energy and in food.»

However, investment in additional infrastructure is occurring, with the planned expansions likely to support strong growth in iron ore exports, while growth in coal exports is expected to be more moderate.

More than a third of the oil, gas and coal production and more than 10 % of hydroelectric power exported to the United StaMore than a third of the oil, gas and coal production and more than 10 % of hydroelectric power exported to the United Stamore than 10 % of hydroelectric power exported to the United States.

More importantly, the bump in exports is unlikely to revive coal employment in the US, or reverse its long - term decline.

The idea was to move more aggressively into Appalachian coal, banking on exports to compensate for the collapsing US coal market.

Beijing is mulling proposals to scrap a 10 - percent coal export tariff, a move which could easily see shipments jump four-fold to the annual quota of 38 million metric tons as Chinese coal becomes more competitive.

The EIA says U.S. coal exports were more than 115 million tons in 2012, more than double the 2009 figure.

A Reuters report from 6 February suggests that, despite being the world's biggest coal producer and consumer, China may start importing more coal than it exports as early as the end of 2007.

However, more than 20 percent — about 118 million tons — of that coal was reportedly shipped overseas, accounting for about 10 percent of worldwide coal exports in 2013, the year for which latest data are available.

U.S. coal exports, if they scale, will more likely than not displace coal with different price, heat, and pollution attributes in Asian markets.

The multiple rivers that carry torrential tropical / sub-tropic rains to the coast will be immediately affected in the river mouths and that will get worse and WILL fundamentally CHANGE THE LANDSCAPE OF 2,300 kilometres OF Coastline, m river systems and farming land and cities and towns and villages and MINING OPERATIONS like open cut coal mines etc inland before one gets to the great dividing range which BTW supports a population of approximately 1 million people and contributes possibly 25 % or more of QLD GDP and it's massive Exports to the world including FOOD SUPPLY.

Buying up US coal just helps the other countries at the top, China, Russia, India and Australia to export more.

If they're all built, U.S. coal exports would more than double from today's levels, according to developers» projections and federal data.

While Australia's Abbott Government is increasing its support for coal in hopes of exporting more and more, the rest of the world is seeing that the end of coal burning is inevitable if we are not to destroy our environment.

There ought to be stronger, more secure permitting regulations for the CSX coal export terminal.

According to internal Millennium Bulk Terminals e-mails disclosed on Feb. 24, 2011, the company hopes to export 80 million tons of coal through its proposed west of Longview terminal, nearly 15 times more than the company originally stated in its application for county permit.

Our editors discuss recent price movements for thermal coal for China, and more broadly for Australia and Indonesia including the status of Jakarta's new shipping regulations for coal exports

It can conservatively be calculated that Australia's coal exports are responsible for more than a hundred thousand deaths each year.

If climate change continues to have a negative impact on these tourism spots and natural wonders, it could have a huge effect on the local economy, too, as tourism is Australia's second-most valuable export, employing more than 580,000 people — 15 times more than the coal mining industry.

Coal fired power generation provides more than 80 per cent of Australia's electricity and coal is the nation's biggest export commodity, earning more than $ 25 billion in 2Coal fired power generation provides more than 80 per cent of Australia's electricity and coal is the nation's biggest export commodity, earning more than $ 25 billion in 2coal is the nation's biggest export commodity, earning more than $ 25 billion in 2006.

Weiss said that, while natural gas burns cleaner, the NETL study concluded that the end - to - end emissions involved in moving U.S. natural gas to an LNG export facility, then liquefying it, then shipping it across the ocean, then de-liquefying it, and shipping it to users in other countries, would be as energy and emissions intensive, or more, than using regionally produced coal — i.e., because of the LNG export supply chain, it has no advantage over coal.

«If their analysis is overlaid with more realistic foreign and domestic leakage assumptions, it becomes clear that the immediate climate impacts of LNG would be much worse for the climate than coal if exports began today,» he said.

However, the National Energy Technical Laboratory's (or NETL) just released «Life Cycle GHG Perspective on Exporting LNG from the U.S.» found that there are 50 percent more emissions from the natural gas export supply chain compared to coal's supply chain, offsetting the gains due to lower pollution from combustion.

logically, australia is NOT decreasing (but is actually hugely increasing) its CO2 emissions precisely because it is sending far more CO2 emissions to china with our coal exports than what we claim we will reduce (but probably won't) at home.

Indonesia... the worlds largest coal exporter is working hard on making it's coal more expensive to export... http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/regulation-flares-indonesian-coal-prices/443212/

A coal - export terminal proposed in Washington state would increase cancer risks for some residents, make rail accidents more likely and add millions of metric tons of climate - changing greenhouse gas globally every year, according...

For more information on the proposed port developments in the western United States please visit the Coal exports from northwest United States ports article.

Besides strong demand for thermal coal, which is burned in power plants, use of metallurgical coal or coking coal, used in blast furnaces, is also expected to more than double in China, to about 1.7 billion metric tons by 2016, as the country's steel mills churn out more steel for automobiles, skyscrapers and export goods, the Peabody study says.

We also tackle some of the more vexing questions, like whether British Columbia ports have the capacity to handle the export proposals, and whether US coal exports add to global greenhouse gas emissions.

In 2016, more than 27,000 people demonstrated solidarity with the Lummi Nation, asking the Army Corps of Engineers to deny a coal export permit at Cherry Point based on Lummi treaty rights.

Current data for 2012 (through August) show coal exports are growing even faster and should more than double 2009 export levels, buoyed by growth in U.S. steam coal.

Between 2003 and 2013, members of the OECD export credit group have given over 71.5 billion to oil and gas projects, five times more than to coal.

More information about the export of publicly owned coal is detailed in the Sightline Institute report, «Unfair Market Value: By Ignoring Exports, BLM Underprices Federal Coal.&racoal is detailed in the Sightline Institute report, «Unfair Market Value: By Ignoring Exports, BLM Underprices Federal Coal.&raCoal.»

The calculations presented in this report suggest that more than half of the emissions avoided in the US power sector may have been exported as coal.

Peabody already has an agreement to export 24 million metric tons of coal per year from the proposed port, a figure that alone would mark more than a fivefold increase in U.S. steam coal exports.

The damage from a major increase in exports of publicly owned coal to Asian markets would go beyond encouraging more coal consumption in a region that is struggling to respond to an air pollution crisis.

The project would be the first LNG export facility ever built so close to so many homes, the first built in close proximity to Marcellus Shale fracking operations, and a potential trigger of more global warming pollution than all seven of Maryland's existing coal - fired power plants combined.

While the climate impact of the tar sands and Northwest coal exports are both undeniably grim, it is the more visceral concerns about groundwater pollution that have energized both liberal environmentalists and conservative representatives (eg Nebraska's governor) to oppose the Keystone XL pipeline.

Despite growing demand in Asia, the United States exports slightly more coal to Europe than it sends the rest of the world combined.

Halting crude oil exports would reduce drilling and fracking and could prevent up to 500 million tons of greenhouse emissions — the pollution equivalent of more than 135 coal - fired power plants, according to a report from the Center for American Progress.

As the Northwest and the rest of the world are increasingly feeling the effects of climate change from more frequent and extreme droughts, wildfires, and flooding, proposed coal export and oil transport infrastructure in the region would lock - in for decades huge amount more carbon pollution.

My understanding is that some oil producers import a lot of coal, because it's more profitable to export the oil.