Sentences with phrase «for coal country»

Clinton's plan for coal country was not to make it easier to mine, but to pump $ 30 billion into the region for economic revitalization to move them away from coal.

Not exact matches

It's easy to see why we should produce our own energy — relying on other countries for oil, natural gas, and coal (the biggest sources used today) can get complicated.

Kansas is still largely dependent on coal, however, and is one of the country's top hubs for crude oil and natural gas production.

With the Chinese market a major driver of coal demand in Asia, any policy changes in the country will affect prices, contributing to the likelihood of continued price volatility in the seaborne coal market, wrote Wood Mackenzie's principal analyst for mining and metals fundamentals research, Rory Simington in a Nov. 16 report.

China has already hit peak coal, but the fossil fuel does still account for 65 % of the country's power generated by source.

Trump «won coal country big, that's for sure,» incoming Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said on the Senate floor.

As China continues to choke on its own emissions, the country is starting to pump the brakes on what was once considered an insatiable appetite for coal - fired power.

Since the bulk of the United States» coking coal is sold to other countries, tariffs on foreign steel would shrink the international market for coal and may break Trump's promise to resuscitate the US coal industry.

22nd September 2017 According to South African rail, port and pipeline company Transnet, increasing rail capacity in South Africa is critical for unlocking coal export opportunities, both for neighbouring African countries and for the domestic market.

That statement may come as a surprise to non-UK readers, many of whom might well be forgiven for thinking the country's steel mills had gone the way of other legacy industries such as coal mining and shipbuilding.

I knew then why we used that word, that time's handle for those like them brought be - neath ticking toward Thanksgiving dour squat suns in coal country gone sour

The country plans to stop using nuclear energy by 2022, but Chancellor Angela Merkel's government has resisted calls to set a deadline for ending the use of coal.

In India, for example, the average life expectancy is 301/2 years, compared to 681/2 years in the United States; the average annual income is less than $ 40, compared to $ 1,469 in the U.S. Energy utilized annually per capita, which is a rough index of living standard, is in some countries equivalent to.02 tons of coal, compared to 8 tons, or 400 times as much, in the U.S.. Two thirds of the world usually goes to bed hungry at night.

Since the ACLU protects the KKK and other disliked groups, how about a little support for this atheist, who is simply the canary in the coal mine when it comes to warning us of the creeping descent into Shariah law in this country.

That deal allows Stanbroke to take control of 40 QGC properties spread across the heart of Queensland's coal seam gas country, from west of Chinchilla to south - west of Dalby and help it secure supply of cattle for its processing business.

And there's no need for European countries to build expensive new terminals to handle coal imports.

If Rockland County is the «canary in the coal mine» for the rest of the country, then at this rate the canary isn't going to make it.

In the developing countries, this source is likely to be associated with cooking, while in Eastern Europe the use of coal for heating seems to be the most probable reason.

Yet John Thompson, director of the fossil transition project at the Clean Air Task Force, said Kemper still could open the door for CO2 capture with countries like Poland and India with low - rank coals, by lowering costs for the second generation of plants.

He noted that U.S. coal companies are already positioning themselves to boost exports, especially to energy - consumptive countries like China, as domestic demand for coal continues to drop off.

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That said, whereas CO2 emissions from coal - fired power plants in the U.S. have declined, greenhouse gas emissions from oil sands have doubled since the turn of the century and look set to double again by the end of this decade — the primary source of emissions growth for the entire country of Canada.

It remains too early to tell if this cutback in coal mining is a blip or evidence for the much - anticipated peak in the country's consumption of the most polluting fossil fuel.

China, she said, invested millions of dollars in closing down inefficient coal - fired power plants, a move for which the country was highly lauded.

Despite its efforts to go green, China still depends on coal, but critics say blaming China for its rampant pollution is unfair, given all the manufacturing the world's developed countries outsource to Chinese companies

Venetian trader and explorer Marco Polo said that one of the most surprising sights during his travels through Asia in the 13th century was the Chinese practice of burning a strange, black rock for heat — and the mountains along the Silk Road that smoldered due to underground coal fires, like the ones burning throughout the country today.

This merger created the largest single MTR company in the country, now responsible for some 25 percent of coal production from MTR mines.

For those countries, Ummel said, emissions information is based on both back - channel information gathering and modeling to predict the amount a particular plant would likely emit based on its size and other factors like the type of coal it uses.

Coal ash is the second largest source of industrial waste in the country, after mining, according to a joint report from the nonprofit environment law organization, Earthjustice, and the Physicians for Social Responsibility.

Finding a plug for «leakage» Harstad's theory builds upon the concept of «carbon leakage,» which holds that countries opting out of climate agreements will produce more greenhouse gases as their neighbors take steps to ratchet down greenhouse gas emissions and regulate the sources of such emissions, like coal - burning industrial plants or motor vehicle fleets.

«There is the potential for the U.S. and other countries to continue to rely on coal as a source of energy while at the same time protecting the climate from the massive greenhouse gas emissions associated with coal,» says Steve Caldwell, coordinator for regional climate change policy at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, an Arlington, Va., think tank.

Australia relies heavily on coal for its own electricity as well, emitting more CO2 per person than any other developed country, and its agricultural emissions are among the highest per capita in the world, mainly because of the large numbers of sheep and cattle.

Indonesia has key advantages for exporting its coal because of the proximity of its two primary coal - producing islands — Kalimantan and Sumatra — to seaports and navigable rivers, reducing transport time and cost for importing countries, GBI noted.

He asserts, however, that coal is wrong for America and suggests exporting any new coal technologies to emerging countries like China and India, both of which depend heavily on coal - derived energy.

Substantively, she said, the covered sectors pull their weight in terms of contributions to climate change: Cement is responsible for fully half of the country's CO2 emissions, and 85 percent of China's electricity generation is coal - fired.

The International Energy Agency (an energy policy organization for the world's 28 richest countries) estimates that the world needs to spend $ 20 billion in the next few years developing and deploying such clean coal technology.

The country has relied on this resource for years to fuel its economy, making coal - rich Yulin one of the fastest - growing Chinese cities.

Shenhua Group, the country's largest coal producer and the second - largest in the world, for one, said in its latest financial report that the company's profit dropped by 13.7 percent in the first three quarters of 2014 compared with a year ago.

While country - specific effects would be varied, IMF projects that eliminating post-tax subsidies for the most - polluting energy fuels, such as coal and gasoline, could raise government revenue by $ 2.9 trillion, while also slashing premature deaths from pollution - related diseases by more than 50 percent.

Yet, even if every planned reactor in China was to be built, the country would still rely on burning coal for more than 50 percent of its electric power — and the Chinese nuclear reactors would provide at best roughly the same amount of energy to the developing nation as does the existing U.S. fleet.

While investment in China's power grid has risen substantially, the country still has some of the world's highest curtailment rates for renewable energy, meaning thousands of turbines are taken offline, even under optimum wind conditions, because grid operators lack the knowledge and skills to integrate the clean energy with other sources, including baseload power from coal plants.

«Because we're a coal dominant country, we have to take responsibility for lowering greenhouse emissions,» said Zhang, an unusual admission for a Chinese official.

As long as countries like China or the U.S. employ big grids to deliver electricity, there will be a need for generation from nuclear, coal or gas, the kinds of electricity generation that can be available at all times.

China is the largest consumer of energy in the world, and coal still accounts for about 65 per cent of the country's energy consumption.»

China's coal - to - chemicals industry currently accounts for 3 percent of the country's total emissions.

During South Africa's apartheid period, for example, the country could not import oil, so it gasified locally abundant coal to make gasoline.

Barrasso also advocated for more coal energy, especially in developing countries.

In the United States, saline aquifers are believed to have the largest capacity for CO2 storage, with potential sites spread out across the country, and several in western states such as Colorado also host large coal power plants.

The main benefit of the study, based on new analyses of the carbon content of the country's coal, is that «it provides a baseline for future emission policies,» says Dabo Guan, a co-author of the paper and a climate change economist at Tsinghua University in Beijing and the University of East Anglia, in Norwich, U.K.

Wheeler examined International Energy Agency data for 174 countries on investments in six low - carbon power sources (hydro, geothermal, nuclear, biomass, wind and solar) to find the incremental costs of clean power compared to a cheaper, carbon - intensive option like a conventional coal - fired power plant.