Sentences with phrase «from coal extraction»

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.

Many experts on China caution that most sources of data there should come with fat error bars, given past instances in which official estimates of activities ranging from coal extraction to fish catches proved to be way off.

Not exact matches

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.

In addition, the extraction of coal, from West Virginia to Wyoming, devastates the physical environment, and its processing and combustion produce gigantic volumes of waste.

Rather, he argues, climate - concerned governments and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) should pool their resources and buy up the extraction rights to coal and other fossil fuels from so - called «third countries» that choose not to participate in greenhouse gas - reducing collectives.

The study by Miller and her colleagues is believed to be the first head - to - head comparison of coal and shale gas from the resource extraction phase through electricity generation.

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

Methane comes naturally from decomposition of plant and animal matter, and from man - made sources including the farming of ruminants such as cattle and sheep, and coal or natural gas extraction.

«Produced» water from coal - bed methane extraction releases underground water with high mineral content into watersheds.

Their discovery could aid secure fracking — in which rocks below ground are split with high - pressure fluids — or extraction of methane gas from deep coal beds.

However, the stark reality is that global emissions have accelerated (Fig. 1) and new efforts are underway to massively expand fossil fuel extraction [7]--[9] by drilling to increasing ocean depths and into the Arctic, squeezing oil from tar sands and tar shale, hydro - fracking to expand extraction of natural gas, developing exploitation of methane hydrates, and mining of coal via mountaintop removal and mechanized long - wall mining.

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.

They should include people in gas country, where federal studies hopefully will soon clarify ways to responsibly expand extraction of a vital fuel (if you care even remotely about moving away from oil or limiting emissions from coal - burning power plants).

Mining and ballads have gone together through the ages, from the early days of coal extraction in Britain and Wales on through another standard I sing in Uncle Wade — Merle Travis's «Dark as a Dungeon» — and forward to Sting's tune «We Work the Black Seam.»

Meanwhile it deflects responsibility to government or to coal companies, to distract from its own extraction of oil and gas.

Longwall mining involves the full extraction of coal from a section of the seam, or «face» using mechanical shearers.

The industry touts the amount of potential energy that can be gained from a fracking well relative to its «small» footprint as a major advantage of the process over conventional gas wells and coal extraction.

New coal mines and gas wells are a particular concern since most, if not all, coal and gas from NEW extraction projects will be exported.

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.

About one - quarter of the total emissions are related to fossil fuel extraction (CH4 emissions from coal mines, CH4 venting from oil extraction), transport and distribution (e.g., leakage from pipelines), and consumption (incomplete combustion).

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;.

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.

Will Queensland become rich from allowing new coal and gas extraction projects?

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.

Methane emissions derive mostly from landfills, agriculture (particularly rice farming), livestock, and natural gas and coal extraction, while soot, otherwise called «black carbon», results from the incomplete combustion of fossil fuels and derives primarily from primitive cook stoves used throughout much of the developing world, as well as diesel engines and coal - burning power plants.

The commentary, published in the British scientific journal, Nature Climate Change, estimated the impact of consuming the fuel from oilsands deposits â $» without factoring in greenhouse gas emissions associated with extraction and production â $» would be far less harmful to the planet's atmosphere than consuming all of the world's coal resources.

A moratorium on Underground Coal Gasification was put in place on 8 October 2015, separately from the ongoing moratorium on shale gas fracking and coalbed methane 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.

Hyperion isn't even shipping product and uranium extraction from coal ash and ocean waters is pure fantasy.

The study is the first to look at the major costs of coal from extraction to combustion.

Following the armed conflict in the Donbass, Ukraine was cut off from half of coal and all of its anthracite extraction, dropping Ukrainian coal production by 22 percent in 2014.

Almost all of us had been using them almost all the time, from the era of the steam engine and the rise of the British coal economy through the age of railroads and the dawn of petroleum extraction to the birth of the internal - combustion engine and the spread of industrial civilization across the planet.

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 destructCoal, 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 destructcoal 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 destructcoal extraction; and, in the immediate future, spare the historic Blair Mountain from destruction.

In fact, coal companies would better concentrate on extracting methane from coal seams and sink CO2 there, staying in business without coal extraction.

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