Sentences with phrase «greater coal exports»

Not exact matches

Instead of Australia dumping millions of tonnes of sludge onto their Great Barrier Reef so they can export more coal to be burned (8 February, p 7), why don't they send it to an island country that needs it because of rising sea levels caused by climate change, such as Tuvalu in Polynesia?

It will export its coal across the Great Barrier Reef, so shipping and dredging will all increase if this coal mine proceeds.

Instead of Australia dumping millions of tonnes of sludge onto their Great Barrier Reef so they can export more coal...

Australia will dump millions of tonnes of sludge inside the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park so that it can export more coal.

The multiple rivers that carry torrential tropical / sub-tropic rains to the coast will be immediately affected in the river mouths and that will get worse and WILL fundamentally CHANGE THE LANDSCAPE OF 2,300 kilometres OF Coastline, m river systems and farming land and cities and towns and villages and MINING OPERATIONS like open cut coal mines etc inland before one gets to the great dividing range which BTW supports a population of approximately 1 million people and contributes possibly 25 % or more of QLD GDP and it's massive Exports to the world including FOOD SUPPLY.

If implemented, proposals for scores of new mines and mine expansions, along with expansion of railroad and terminal infrastructure, will lead to an even greater increase in Australia's coal exports.

John Eaves, chief executive officer of St. Louis, Missouri - based Arch Coal, which saw the bulk of its exports last year go to South Korea, told investors last month that the company would be proactive in working to gain greater port capacity.

But the Bank has run up against a determined international resistance to its most controversial project to date — a pair of coal mega mine and export terminals that would ship millions of tons of coal through the Great Barrier Reef near Australia.

«We, youth climate activists at the University of Montana, are calling for a regional weekend of action to protect the greater Northwest from coal exports.

There is great concern that the mine will pose a huge environmental threat to the Great Barrier Reef, as the coal will need to be transported to a port terminal for exgreat concern that the mine will pose a huge environmental threat to the Great Barrier Reef, as the coal will need to be transported to a port terminal for exGreat Barrier Reef, as the coal will need to be transported to a port terminal for export.

In 2017, a rise in coal imports and prices led to greater US exports; but as prices ease, so will exports.

• Support for energy innovation today comes from those concerned about the high (and rising) economic costs, not to mention the foreign entanglements created by America's dependence on oil; the need for greater energy access in poor countries; diseases and deaths caused by air pollution, oil and gas drilling, and coal mining and waste; and the potential for America to manufacture and export new energy technologies at a profit.

Look you've got a great blog here, but unless your side of this arguement comes to grips that the Ausies of South Africa or Indinesia will continue to export very «dirty» coal to India and China most of your arguements are pretty much blowing smoke in the wind...

The main goal I had was simply to highlight that for all the deserved attention given to the pipeline, it would great to get some comparable attention to the coal export plans.

Some of Australia's largest coal deposits are in the Galilee Basin; if the Galilee Basin coal is to be mined and exported economically it must be shipped out through the Great Barrier Reef, but this has unacceptable environmental consequences.

HSBC, Europe's biggest bank, and Deutsche Bank, Germany's biggest, have stated that they were not interested in financing any coal mines that would export from ports near Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

Instead of abandoning coal, China is developing cleaner and higher - efficiency coal plants — and, as a boon to its plan for greater regional influence, aims to export the technology abroad.

Once read and buried, the already fossilized editorial content of Newscorp papers hastens their transformation into minable coal that can be exported to China in exchange for printing presses as the great biogeochemical cycle of carbon continues.