Sentences with phrase «fuel infrastructure projects»

In the face of climate change, we have the dual challenge of both resisting new fossil fuel infrastructure projects and building a resilient, sustainable and equitable economy in the shell of the old.

No new fossil fuel infrastructure projects.

This growing international movement represents the next wave of institutions and individuals refusing to do business with banks financing risky fossil fuel infrastructure projects like the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), Keystone XL, Trans Mountain and others.

Activists are also fighting Rover and other fossil fuel infrastructure projects on climate change grounds because the new installations can have a lifespan of 50 years or more, locking in new carbon emissions over the long term.

Unfortunately their efforts are undermined by rogue agencies like the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission which is failing to do its job and evaluate the environmental and climate impacts of the massive fossil fuel infrastructure projects it approves.

I support a legislative ban on any new fossil fuel infrastructure projects in Victoria.

The move throws one of Canada's biggest fossil fuel infrastructure projects into doubt, with the company setting May 31 as a deadline to resolve issues around the project.

We've put together a statewide campaign with environmental allies to push Governor Cuomo to stop all fossil fuel infrastructure projects in the state and move rapidly to 100 % renewable energy.

«If elected, I pledge to immediately direct DEC to half this and all other fossil fuel infrastructure projects as a threat to public health and safety.

Not exact matches

Some states are already raising their fuel taxes to pay for infrastructure projects.

Decmil Group has won about $ 40 million worth of work at Hancock Prospecting's Roy Hill iron ore project in the Pilbara, building on its portfolio of port, rail and fuel infrastructure work already under way at the site.

Brazil's robust economy, with a heavy reliance on natural resources, is fuelling rapid growth and funding widescale infrastructure projects in remote regions.

In addition to tax changes (more on that below), Trump's plan to grow the economy focuses largely on generating more jobs in the fossil fuel economy (in coal and onshore and offshore drilling for oil and gas) and as a result of new infrastructure projects.

His 2009 stimulus gusher fuelled a national building boom, especially in the last two summer construction seasons, but the deadline for finishing projects under the $ 4 - billion infrastructure fund is the end of this month.

The solar, landfill gas, and fuel cell projects funded by New Energy Capital through the New Energy Capital Cleantech Infrastructure Fund offset over 482 thousand metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents («MT CO2 Eq.»)

The investment team has extensive experience in all aspects of clean infrastructure investing, including evaluating energy markets, projects and technologies; developing and financing domestic and international power generation, fuels, wastewater management, and distributed generation facilities; founding and managing renewable energy companies;

«In New York state Gov. [Andrew] Cuomo has rejected the Port Ambrose [natural gas] project... and the trends have been to say «no» to new fossil fuel infrastructure.»

As the state's environmental watchdog, the DEC will be responsible for approving or denying this project based on a variety of factors, including whether New York can meet its climate goals with the ongoing development of a fossil fuel infrastructure.

He wants to launch a massive infrastructure project to revitalize New York's infrastructure by becoming completely fossil fuel - free by 2030.

The cash saved will be used to pay for a freeze on fuel duty to placate exasperated motorists; a cap on rail fare rises; and to help fund scores of infrastructure projects, from the Kettering bypass to a new bridge across the Thames.

They oppose all new fossil fuel infrastructure, such as the publicly - opposed methane gas storage expansion project at Crestwood.

Reducing fuel use, emissions and «havoc» A Department of Transportation pilot project underway in Ann Arbor, Mich., has already collected 7 billion safety messages exchanged among 3,000 cars, trucks and transit buses equipped with vehicle - to - vehicle (V2V) and vehicle - to - infrastructure (V2I) technology.

The funds will advance research projects geared toward improving energy efficiency, developing alternative fuels, improving electrical infrastructure and reducing U.S. dependence on foreign resources.

This work is aligned with Hydrogen Fueling Infrastructure Research and Station Technology (H2FIRST), a new project established by the Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.

Sandia leads a number of other hydrogen research efforts, including the Hydrogen Fueling Infrastructure Research and Station Technology (H2FIRST) project co-led by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), a maritime fuel cell demonstration, a development project focused on hydrogen - powered forklifts and a recent study of how many California gas stations can safely store and dispense hydrogen.

Established by the Energy Department's Fuel Cell Technologies Office in the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, the Hydrogen Fueling Infrastructure Research and Station Technology (H2FIRST) project will draw on existing and emerging core capabilities at the national labs and aim to reduce the cost and time of new fueling station construction and improve the stations» availability and reliaFueling Infrastructure Research and Station Technology (H2FIRST) project will draw on existing and emerging core capabilities at the national labs and aim to reduce the cost and time of new fueling station construction and improve the stations» availability and reliafueling station construction and improve the stations» availability and reliability.

«This new project brings important federal know - how and resources to accelerate improvements in refueling infrastructure that support the commercial market launch of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles,» said Air Resources Board Chairman Mary D. Nichols.

Industry, innovation and infrastructure: The project helps to improve the regional and national energy supply and to reduce Turkey's dependency on fossil fuels.

A leaked draft of his infrastructure plans calls for a rollback of environmental laws and a sell - off of public lands to speed the construction of more fossil fuel projects.

She began working with Greenpeace in 2008 on federal climate legislation and has since worked on reforming federal fossil fuel leasing programs and fighting new infrastructure projects around the United States.

These include a significant investment in refining infrastructure and technology to manufacture clean fuels, as well as projects to monitor and reduce nitrogen oxide, sulfur oxide and greenhouse gas emissions, and expenditures for asset retirement obligations.

National and state investment in and support of CCS are completely consistent with the Donald Trump Administration's goals to invest in infrastructure projects, continue U.S. reliance on fossil fuels, and create jobs.

We need to sustainability proof the future EU budget and make it serve the public good, promote social inclusion and strengthen European values, instead of wasting taxpayers» money on dirty fossil fuel investments, harmful and outdated farming practices, and large scale infrastructure projects that damage our health, destroy our environment, and jeopardise the safety and prosperity of our children.

Development of extreme energy projects like the Alberta Tar Sands, Bakken Shale Oil and coal from the Powder River Basin, has fueled an explosion in proposed fossil fuel infrastructure in the Northwest.

Whether it's pushing banks to stop project - level loans to pipelines, demanding insurance companies to stop underwriting fossil fuel infrastructure, or pressuring cities to stop using fossil fuel funded banking, «no new fossil fuel finance» is a driving movement strategy.

• Stipulate that the World Bank - initiated infrastructure investment tax exemptions and government - provided guarantees and financing do not apply to any fossil fuel projects.

Brussels, November 24 — As EU Climate Commissioner Cañete claims the «transition to a low - carbon society is becoming the new reality» in the EU in his State of the Energy Union address, a list of major infrastructure projects published today by the European Commission is full of fossil fuel projects and represents «a step closer to climate chaos» according to Friends of the Earth Europe, which slammed the selection.

These subsidies include over $ 2 billion in funding for gas infrastructure from 2014 to 2020 allocated from the EU budget; and over $ 6 billion of funding by the EIB, and $ 2.3 billion by the EBRD, in total in fossil fuel projects from 2014 to 2016.

Despite the climate impacts of the project (we can't build new fossil fuel infrastructure and meet the Paris Agreement) and the objections of the local people, the Italian government and the European Commission are trying to force it through.

All the arguments are perfectly correct and accurate and by themselves enough to justify stopping many of these plans, but a far more important argument always lurks in the background: each of these new infrastructure projects is a way to extend the life of the fossil fuel era a few more disastrous decades.

Here's how Diane Leopold, president of the giant fracking company Dominion Energy, put it at a conference earlier this year: «It may be the most challenging» period in fossil fuel history, she said, because of «an increase in high - intensity opposition» to infrastructure projects that is becoming steadily «louder, better - funded, and more sophisticated.»

Minneapolis, MN — Today, a coalition of Indigenous, national and international groups join a growing movement placing pressure on financial institutions to drop financially and socially risky projects, delivering a group letter to the 36 banks providing corporate finance to fossil fuel infrastructure giant Enbridge.

Part 2: Advanced Vehicles -(Sec. 721) Directs the Secretary to establish a competitive grant pilot program through the DOE Clean Cities Program, to provide up to 30 geographically dispersed project grants to state or local governments or metropolitan transportation authorities for acquisition of alternative fueled vehicles, hybrid vehicles, or fuel cell vehicles, including the infrastructure necessary to support them directly.

Yet, during its first year, the fund leveraged EUR 1.5 billion for fossil fuel infrastructure, and 68 % of transport investment is destined for carbon - intensive projects.

Hochberg claims that this interest in the energy sector stems from the need to provide affordable energy access to improve healthcare and living standards, but large fossil fuel infrastructure and centralized power projects that Ex-Im often finances will do little to improve energy access.

to be discovering, without these loans it becomes difficult for fossil fuel corporations to find the billions required to build new infrastructure projects.

Because wind energy arrays do not require continual fuel inputs, upfront expenditures for turbines, foundations, and electrical infrastructure constitute nearly 75 % of total project costs (WindEurope 2016).

These projects range from the conversion of curbside waste into biofuel to the installation of the fueling / charging infrastructure that supports expansion of vehicles using alternative and renewable fuels.

We want a climate strategy that will work for people and the planet — that means subsidies to the fossil fuel industry and new infrastructure projects like pipelines have no place in Canada.

PFIs must cease by 2020 direct, indirect, ancillary infrastructure and policy support for upstream and downstream fossil fuels, GHG - intensive projects, nuclear, large bioenergy and hydropower when more cost - effective and less damaging alternatives exist; All PFI investments must meet strict environmental and social development criteria and be assessed through a pro-poor, inclusive, climate - resilient and gender - responsive lens;