Sentences with phrase «for coal extraction»

At Arch Coal, the country's second largest coal producer, citizens will ask the company to end the damaging practice of mountaintop removal for coal extraction; and, in the immediate future, spare the historic Blair Mountain from destruction.

Loans for coal extraction are practically non-existent.

When I am confronted by the threats to the integrity of these aspects of the world, whether through photos of the Tar Sands, or reading about mountain - top removal for coal extraction, or some other sight or story about degradation, I ache in a way that compels me to do something.

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I live in BC and have signed petitions against your President's plans to pillage your National Parks for the sake of coal and oil extraction!!

In cases where the resource will probably last for a couple of hundred years, on the other hand (as in Australian coal, for example, at current extraction rates), this logic may be less compelling.

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By: Donald Makhafola 16th March 2018 The best process for extraction of coal depends on the geographical and geotechnical information of the deposit, says Johannesburg - based multidisciplinary engineering consulting company GO Holistic Engineering engineering consultant Kevin Jacobs.

In other cases, the story is more nuanced: For example, oil and gas extraction firms benefit, while the producers of petroleum and coal products lose, echoing the tension between refiners and oil - shale producers.

Probably far too complicated for this site, but the «costs» entirely disregards long - term costs - pollution, health problems (like coal extraction workers), and, obviously, the trillions in expected expenses from global warming effects, both responding to and trying to mitigate.

«The «best practice»... is a clear exclusion policy on commercial lending and investment banking services for all coal companies who practice mountaintop removal coal extraction,» says RAN.

It might be possible, for example, to impose an extraction fee («severance payment») for coal and oil taken from federal lands.

Another method for reducing methane emissions, whether underground or on tracks of surface mining, lies in degasifying coal seams prior to extraction.

Although fracking in the U.S. produces more than 100 billion gallons of wastewater per year, the process requires significantly less water per unit of energy than extraction and processing for coal and nuclear power, according to past research by Jackson and his colleagues.

Paul Epstein, associate director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School, details the economic, health and environmental costs associated with each stage in the life cycle of coal — extraction, transportation, processing, and combustion.

Klein follows the «dark» money behind the propaganda of climate - change denial, the effort to dismantle the federal government to curtail corporate regulation, and the justification for the feverish pursuit of the riskiest forms of carbon - emission - producing energy from tar sands extraction to deep - water drilling, fracking, and mountaintop - removal coal mining.

The continued extraction of coal, oil and gas following the «business - as - usual mode» will soon create grave existential risks for the poorest three billion, and for generations yet unborn.

This choice would undoubtedly be hailed both by those pushing for development and large - scale testing of nonpolluting energy technologies and by environmental campaigners seeking knowledgeable leadership at the giant agency — which, while it still oversees efforts to boost coal and oil extraction, also has what may be the world's biggest assemblage of scientists pursuing development of renewable power sources.

While all such forecasts are implicitly uncertain, this one helps clarify where to focus efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions; reinforces the importance of resolving questions about how to safely expand, while not stopping, extraction of vast domestic reserves of natural gas; and powerfully challenges proponents of accelerated deployment of today's menu of renewable energy technologies or nuclear power plants to lay out a credible strategy for supplanting coal.

Peaking oil and natural gas extraction is going to accelerate global warming when many desperate people use wood and coal for heating and cooking.

Judge Jackson's ruling exposes the bogus economic assumptions underlying nearly all of BLM's coal leasing decisions, and it will help hold BLM accountable for the climate impacts of other decisions on coal and fossil fuel extraction.

Credits for using giant machines to remove the gas are not likely to be accepted internationally for a long time, if at all, not least because the industrial infrastructure needed for extraction would need to be about as big as the infrastructure that puts it there — oil wells, coal mines, railways, pipelines, power plants, refineries and so on.

On behalf of Kentuckians for the Commonwealth — I'm a member of — and for all those thousands of people, folks in the mountains who have lost loved ones due to the carcinogenic heavy metals blown out of the earth and poisoning our waters by this hellish, murderous extraction of coal called mountaintop removal — to represent them, I stand proudly in defiance of Governor Steven Beshear, McConnell, King Coal and all the King's lap puppies in the statehouses of Kentucky and West Virginia and those here in Washington, DC, who put corporate gains over people's licoal called mountaintop removal — to represent them, I stand proudly in defiance of Governor Steven Beshear, McConnell, King Coal and all the King's lap puppies in the statehouses of Kentucky and West Virginia and those here in Washington, DC, who put corporate gains over people's liCoal and all the King's lap puppies in the statehouses of Kentucky and West Virginia and those here in Washington, DC, who put corporate gains over people's lives.

Separate production models were developed for mining (coal and unconventional oil) and field (gas and conventional oil) operations, which reflected the basic differences in extraction and processing techniques.

In response to this extraction and abuse, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth formed to lead Kentucky in a transition away from an economy dominated by coal, anchoring the work of the Our Power Campaign throughout the Bluegrass State.

Thus, the NETL analysis concluded that there was little difference in the total amount of life cycle climate pollution between «U.S. LNG exports for power production in European and Asian markets... when compared to regional coal extraction and consumption for power production.»

Germany has got rid of nuclear and is getting back big time to coal extraction and coal powered electricity, for example.

The extraction of coal - seam gas often involves drilling many wells through aquifers with the potential for the contamination or loss of water from those resources;.

Here the focus is on coal exports rather than domestic use since the NMBI petition calls for bans on NEW fossil fuel extraction.

If all new coal and gas extraction projects are slated for export, why do state and territory governments even consider allowing new fossil fuel extraction projects despite the climate imperative of keeping fossil fuels in the ground, and despite often fierce community opposition?

Under the bill, there would be no new leases for extraction of fossil fuels — such as coal, oil, and gas — on all federal lands.

But the public might assume that most of the coal and gas from all the myriad of other proposed new extraction projects is for use within Australia.

Despite being one of the world's largest markets for renewable energy, Germany has an extensive history of coal extraction.

Oil and gas lease sales, royalties from mineral and energy production, Alaska's «Open for Business» initiative, renewable energy development, mineral extraction, the future of coal production from public lands, offshore renewable energy development, and oil and gas exploration and drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf were just some of the topics discussed.

He's also called for increased extraction of oil, coal, and natural gas reserves at a time when climate leaders are seeking to limit emissions by transitioning to renewable forms of energy.

And he will work to ease regulatory pressure on coal, boost oil and gas extraction, and remove policy supports for clean energy.

The ratio of energy returned on energy invested (EROEI) for fossil energy production has tended to fall as high - quality deposits of oil, coal, and natural gas are depleted, and as society relies more on unconventional oil and gas that require more energy for extraction, and on coal that is more deeply buried or that is of lower energy content.

Calls for a moratorium on new coal mines will now shift to all new fossil fuel extraction.

The International Conference on Fossil Fuel Supply and Climate Policy explores the many opportunities for, and challenges of, these supply - side strategies for limiting coal, oil, and gas, recognizing that many countries rely on fossil fuel extraction and trade for their energy security, economic development, and political influence.

While some of the political dynamics of the coal sector are very specific to Colombia, there are important lessons for transitions away from coal extraction.

Since 1979, WVU's National Research Center for Coal and Energy has advanced technology in key areas of concern to West Virginia's energy industry from coal mining and processing to oil and gas extraction, energy efficiency, mine land reclamation, health concerns, and water Coal and Energy has advanced technology in key areas of concern to West Virginia's energy industry from coal mining and processing to oil and gas extraction, energy efficiency, mine land reclamation, health concerns, and water coal mining and processing to oil and gas extraction, energy efficiency, mine land reclamation, health concerns, and water use.

By divesting their assets from fossil fuels, they are reducing the ability for big oil, coal and gas companies to develop new extraction projects, while citizens worldwide are rising to stop these projects in their communities,» said Yossi Cadan, Global Divestment Senior Campaigner at 350.org.

For example, even though Trump has vowed to bring back coal mining jobs, the coal extraction industry is on its last breaths, primarily as a result of energy market forces.

R&D for renewable energy, de-funding the EPA Energy Star program, ignoring the Social Cost of Carbon, renewing leasing / sale of coal on Federal lands without regard to whether the coal companies are paying a reasonable price, threatening to open more Federal lands to fossil fuel extraction... the list goes on.

For a discussion of the coal - extraction process, see the article coal mining.

«These will not reopen whatever anything President Trump does,» explains BNEF, «nor do we see much appetite among investors for ploughing money into U.S. coal extraction — stranded asset risk will trump rhetoric.»

Communities dependent on coal extraction have been suffering from falling employment for many years, often even as production was rising.

While coal extraction is a significant share of the Kentucky economy, the state is also a major manufacturer of automobiles, has a thriving agriculture and cattle industry, and is known around the world for its horse breeding and thoroughbred racing.