Sentences with phrase «focused on the coal industry»

I'd like to repeat my thought from the other day that Dot Earth should do a thread focused on the oil industry, another focused on the coal industry, and another focused on the utility industry.

Not exact matches

Donald Trump is focusing heavily on coal - industry jobs at the expense of cleaner forms of energy.

Ian Dunlop, who used to chair the Australian Coal Association but now campaigns to leave coal in the ground, says this will force the industry to focus on cleaner cCoal Association but now campaigns to leave coal in the ground, says this will force the industry to focus on cleaner ccoal in the ground, says this will force the industry to focus on cleaner coalcoal.

The industry has faltered because of declining global demand and low natural gas prices, which have encouraged electric power companies to use gas instead of coal to generate electricity, said Ray Rasker, executive director of Headwaters Economics, an independent research group focusing on the economic implications of land management decisions in the West.

And industry leaders have focused recently on ways to impose cleaner coal technologies, including at a major conference in Delhi earlier this month featuring high - level government and industry leaders focusing on coal gasification, carbon capture and storage, upgrades and other measures to improve efficiency and reduce pollution.

It will focus on catalyst development for four applications: proton exchange membrane fuel cells to convert stored energy in non-fossil fuels into electricity; electrolysers for splitting water into oxygen and hydrogen — a potential clean fuel cell source; syngas, a mixture of CO and H2, which is generated from coal, gas and biomass, and widely used as a key intermediate in the chemical industry; and lithium - air batteries.

Q: The coal industry has faced depressed prices over the last several years — what impact have you seen on the market due to that (focus on Africa)-- potential supply side deficit / inability...

Look for more specific targets in its new Plan, such as more renewable energy targets pre-2020, additional caps on coal production, more low - carbon pilot cities and a rebalancing of the economy from heavy industry and steel to a focus on services.

Recent issues have focused on a range of topics, including high - efficiency, low - emissions coal technology, synergies between coal and renewables, water and the energy industry, urbanisation, and energy poverty.

In this new book, Gelbspan focuses his toughest language by far on the coal and oil industries.

That, in turn, would reduce the coal industry's challenge by half — leaving it to focus on carbon capture.

Although the coal industry employed advertising that focused on this new of clean coal in support of current - generation plants, the Department of Energy's timeline for its Carbon Sequestration Technology Roadmap indicated that even under optimistic assumptions, carbon sequestration would remain primarily in the demonstration stage for at least the coming decade.

the Michigan Tech scientists focussed only on deaths from air pollution linked to coal - burning power stations: they did not make a calculation about the economic costs of chronic illness linked to polluted air, nor did they estimate the health costs that might be linked to the entire coal industry, nor include the estimates of deaths that might be attributed to climate change as a consequence of prodigal fossil fuel combustion.

Importantly, the Michigan Tech scientists focussed only on deaths from air pollution linked to coal - burning power stations: they did not make a calculation about the economic costs of chronic illness linked to polluted air, nor did they estimate the health costs that might be linked to the entire coal industry, nor include the estimates of deaths that might be attributed to climate change as a consequence of prodigal fossil fuel combustion.

Last week we brought you the story of how the nation's largest utility holding company — and historically one of the industry's biggest coal consumers — is pivoting away from the dirtiest carbon - based fuel and focusing more on renewable generation at its regulated utilities.

We focus on the fossil fuel industry because we view the production and consumption of oil, gas and coal as sources of global warming, human rights abuses, war, national security concerns, corporate globalization, and increased inequality.

Following the oil report, this risk analysis focuses for the first time on the global coal industry, highlighting that $ 112bn of future capital expenditure (capex) in potential thermal coal production (excluding China) is at risk of becoming stranded.

Robert's commercial disputes experience has focused on the energy sector and includes representing a multinational energy company in a $ 150 million ICC arbitration concerning the impact of government - imposed price renegotiation in the coal industry; representing an oil & gas major in a dispute under a long term gas supply agreement in relation to an off - shore West African field; defending a Russian energy infrastructure company in LCIA arbitration proceedings; and advising an oil major on potential claims under a bi-lateral investment treaty related to corruption charges and maltreatment of company officers.

Professional Duties & Responsibilities Highly trained geophysics student with an extensive background in petroleum geology Educated in economics with an emphasis in business operations and management Contributed to a North American geology mapping project with a consortium of colleges Responsible for set up, use, removal and maintenance of «Texan» seismometers Analyzed raw, unprocessed seismographs for cultural noise and teleseisms Utilized Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology technology Directed SPEC data log correlation to acquisition travel logs and maps Managed information database ensuring accurate, organized, and accessible information Participated in coal and oil reservoir rock geological study throughout Utah Attended year - long lecture series focused on topics related to the energy industry Studied Shell Energy's trading floor operations Observed nanotechnology development at Rice University