Sentences with phrase «huge coal reserves»

This time was marked by the rapid growth of vegetation that has left us with huge coal reserves.

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For the time being, much of the analysis on the financial losses focuses on the plunge in oil and coal prices, and the potential that a huge portion of the global reserves of oil, gas, and coal will be «stranded» in the ground to curb climate change.

The wrong way is to jeopardize our energy and economic security by abandoning nuclear power and our nation's huge reserves of coal.

The mining industry has discovered that there are huge reserves of coal - seam gas and oil - shale that can be profitably exploited.

An unlikely alliance has emerged in some regions, especially in New South Wales and Queensland, between environmentalists and traditionally hostile farmers to oppose the rapid spread of huge new coal mines on rich agricultural land and coal seam gas reserves being accessed by fracking.

China, with similarly huge reserves, is even planning to convert coal into synthetic fuel for cars - even though such processes typically produce large amounts of greenhouse gases.

- Australia has huge reserves of coal and gas, but only 0.3 % of the world's oil.

This matters because there is a huge amount of carbon currently locked up in permafrost, and the methane hydrates alone contain more carbon than all of Earth's proven reserves of coal, oil, and natural gas combined.