Sentences with phrase «fuel exports»

Local communities have challenged both the safety of transporting coal, oil and volatile gas through their communities and the role of fossil fuel export in fueling catastrophic climate disruption.

The question of fossil fuel exports is much bigger than this policy.

Expand fossil fuel exports from the U.S. to the EU, and therefore increase fracking and mining in the U.S.;

Marathon Petroleum Corp agreed to buy rival Andeavor for more than $ 23 billion in a deal creating one of the largest global refiners that will benefit from access to booming U.S. shale fields and growing U.S. fuel export markets.

It's another stiff blow to the Northwest's besieged fossil fuel industry; a number of other proposed fossil fuel export projects in the region have been killed in recent years.

Stopping Gateway Pacific was a landmark victory for tribal nations and significantly contributed toward saving the Salish Sea; however, since Gateway Pacific's project was stopped, new fossil fuel export terminals have been proposed.

But it would be a powerful demonstration that governments can ban new climate - damaging projects and refuse to make new fosil fuel export agreements on climate - ethical grounds.

Later, on the sidelines of Suncor's annual general meeting, Williams said he hopes that «good sense and reason prevail» but added Suncor has a contingency plan in case Alberta follows through with its plan to restrict oil or refined fuel exports through the existing Trans Mountain pipeline to B.C.

She acknowledged that Canada's historic reliance on fossil fuel exports represents a unique hurdle in building a clean economy.

Back in 2010, Dogwood decided that stopping the expansion of fossil fuel export infrastructure in British Columbia was the biggest contribution we could make to the growing climate movement.

In addition to a weaker euro, which helps fuel its export - oriented economy, the cost of financing its sovereign debt relative to its existing debt continues to fall while the smaller countries struggle with rising financing costs.

Billions of dollars in fossil fuel exports pay for nearly all the things Canada doesn't produce; Canada is a net importer of everything else.

Coffee is the world's most popular beverage, with about 500 billion cups drunk every year, fuelling an export industry worth $ 15 billion.

It's perhaps also worth noting that that the pace of fossil fuel export emission growth in Australia is accelerating rather than contracting, in spite of a carbon tax and a resources tax.

This suggests the need for more local action in Canada and eventually an international regime of fossil fuel export controls.

All that said, theoretical international trade law violations abound in the statute books, and legislators should not be deterred from addressing the climate crisis through fossil fuel export restrictions based on hypothetical claims.

The current fossil fuel export proposals — which would put dangerous and toxic materials into the heart of the tribes» treaty - reserved fishing areas — are nothing less than an existential threat to the people who have depended on this landscape since time immemorial.

Five future reports are planned on how to eliminate emissions from other sectors (Transport, Buildings, Land Use and Agriculture, Industrial Processes, and Replacing Fossil Fuel Export Revenue).

The Trump administration's obsession with fossil fuel exports plays into Beijing's grand strategy to become the next high - tech superpower.

«U.S. exports of distillate fuel (which includes diesel) reached a record 656,000 barrels per day (bbl / d) in 2010 and have grown every year since 2003» Source: USEIA, U.S. distillate fuel exports continue to grow.

«Fighting climate change requires a full court press, not fighting one fossil fuel export project like the Trans Mountain pipeline while championing another like LNG Canada,» said Wilderness Committee Vancouver Island Campaigner Torrance Coste.

Newswire Portland Rising Tide responds to the Global Call for 10 days of Action from Earth Day to May Day by joining other groups who together represent the public's interest in opposing polluting fossil fuel export terminals in the Pacific Northwest.

Even if they meet those targets, any actual climate benefit could be more than wiped out by the climate impacts of the fossil fuels exported from the NEW extraction projects they continue to approve in the meantime.

China's fuel exports to North Korea fell in August, along with iron - ore imports from the isolated nation, as trade slowed after the latest UN sanctions, but coal shipments resumed after a five - month hiatus, customs data showed on Tuesday.

Analysts believe OPEC could boost production later this year, but only if prices rise above $ 70 or $ 75 a barrel, a level deemed appropriate by OPEC states whose national budgets depend on fossil fuel exports.

Fossil - fuel exports of all stripes — Coal exports have been trending into record - high territory for the past few years, the Obama administration is decidedly bullish on exporting natural gas, and exports of refined petroleum products continue to be among the leaders across the board.

The National Journal's Amy Harder compiled the following list of energy and environmental issues to tune into in the New Year, including greenhouse - gas emissions and EPA rules, the Keystone XL pipeline, fossil fuel exports, renewable fuel standard, Arctic drilling and fracking.

Those per capita emissions still do not account for the fossil fuels they export to others.

The Washington State Government and the Ecology Department of Washington can take action and block fossil fuel exports!

Posted by Robert Rapier on December 27, 2012 - 5:48 am Topic: Demand / Consumption Tags: fuel exports, gas prices, oil exports, oil prices [list all tags]

That means the market for Australia's fossil fuel exports will need to «rapidly reduce and ultimately disappear».

Asongu, Simplice and Nwachukwu, Jacinta (2017): Fuel Exports, Aid and Terrorism.

wiped out by the climate harm caused by allowing NEW fossil fuel exports.

So, yes, it is important to maintain Australia's future export income, but given the small amount of export income we actually receive from fossil fuel exports, it should be relatively easy to replace that with new climate - safe exports and new foreign investment in local renewable energy projects provided we plan and prepare accordingly.

We might feel incredibly proud of that achievement, and so we should, but our actual climate impact from fossil fuel exports would still be double the climate impact from all the fossil fuels we currently use within Australia.

In outline the myth - breaking narrative is: — Australia does not need to open any new coal mines or gasfields for its own use — The output from all new coal mines and gasfields will be exported — Royalty, subsidy, and tax figures show just how little benefit Australia receives from fossil fuel exports — Fossil fuel exports cause immense climate damage despite flying under the carbon reduction target radar