Sentences with phrase «in coal giant»

«Canadian Climate Denial Group, Friends of Science, Named as Creditor in Coal Giant's Bankruptcy Files,» DeSmogBlog, June 20, 2016.

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The giant mining operations of Asia stack thousands of computers in dimly lit factory buildings powered by cheap electricity from coal - fed generating plants.

Faced with worsening smog in large East Coast cities, the Asian giant has ordered thousands of factories and manufacturers, especially those that burn coal, to shut down in accordance with the government's four - year climate action plan.

The Asian giant still accounts for a large percentage of global trade in important resources such as iron ore, aluminum, copper and coal.

Pulling the same legal levers as those involved in its climate change investigation of ExxonMobil, the New York state attorney general's office obtained an agreement from coal giant Peabody Energy to end misleading statements and disclose risks associated with global warming.

Back in August 2015, the US coal mining giant Alpha Natural Resources filed for bankruptcy, facing billions in debt.

Australian electricity and natural gas giant AGL Energy announced plans last week to shut down the two - gigawatt Liddell coal - fired generating station in New South...

Energy giant E.ON has delayed plans to build the controversial new coal fire plant in Kingsnorth it was revealed today.

Australia's federal court has rejected a bid to block a giant coal mine in central Queensland that could harm the Great Barrier Reef.

«We capture impurities» While Huaneng is leading the way in capturing carbon for coal - fired power plants, an industry that is traditionally tied with CCUS, the Chinese coal giant Shenhua is trying to adopt CCUS technology in a new sector: factories that produce chemicals out of coal.

Coastal communities in the US state are suing oil, gas and coal giants for the cost of dealing with sea level rise.

The Carbon Tracker Initiative — led by James Leaton, an environmentalist who served as an adviser at the accounting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers — combed through proprietary databases to figure out how much oil, gas and coal the world's major energy companies hold in reserve.

Exactly as tedious as Steamboy, then, and covering exactly the same ground, Howl's Moving Castle shares with Ôtomo's film, too, a giant steam - powered ball as its central image, encapsulating a vision of Victorian England in a Frankenstein's yin / yang clattering along inexorably like the Industrial Revolution while gorgeous impressionistic watercolour towns are polluted by coal smoke from a fleet of trains burning through the forests at night.

Driving a box truck disguised as a giant camera, Agnès Varda and Jean «JR» René tour the French countryside in Faces Places, visiting farms, coal towns, factories, tiny cemeteries, and a toppled German bunker that sits like a Brutalist monument on a Norman beach.

AVS Estates Limited are leading providers of pre-school care in Germany and have chosen Coal Clough House in Burnley to accommodate the first Giant Leap Childcare and Learning Centre.

The trail leads him to a village on the border with Turkey, a stone's throw away from Greece, high up in the Strandja Mountains - a place of pagan mysteries and black storks nesting in giant oaks; a place where every spring, possessed by Christian saints, men and women dance barefoot across live coals in search of rebirth.

Where the rest of us saw only the empty overgrown meadow behind our house, riddled with groundhog holes, with a shallow, muddy stream running through it and a splintering wooden wagon that I had almost outgrown, he saw his friends: artists and teachers and butchers, scenic painters and Russian lighting designers, ship captains and hardware merchants all with a glass in hand, their laughter rising high above our heads and then evaporating into the canopy of maple leaves; the weeping willows shedding their leaf tears down the banks of the stream; fireflies and bagpipers arriving through the low clinging humidity of summer; a giant pit with four spring lambs roasting over apple - wood coals; the smell of wood smoke hanging in the moist summer nighttime air.

The piece centers on Secretary of State John Kerry's trip to China in July, and thus appropriately casts China's policy choices on greenhouse gases and its deep dependence on coal in the broader context of the never - ending «you first» dance between these two greenhouse - gas giants.

Their mock attack ad, which starts out with a group of children dancing hand in hand around a giant lump of coal in a pasture, can be seen on the newspaper's Web site by clicking on the image above.

I think this emerging form of emissions accounting provides a valuable way to show how the growing coal (and natural gas) greenhouse - gas emissions commitment will play out, but — because of the competing social and economic values embedded in that extracted energy, along with the equity argument poor countries use against established fossil - powered industrial giants — I'm not sure it leads to a more effective strategy for cutting those emissions.

The document is in part familiar, reprising Dr. Hansen's prescription for American action to cut carbon dioxide emissions from coal burning as a way to lead the emerging greenhouse giants, particularly China, toward this goal.

And given that Toyota is by no means the only corporation aiming for 100 % renewable energy in its manufacturing operations, the coal giants are likely fretting too.

Our recent «Energy Access» report found that coal giant Peabody Energy Corp's assertion that coal can help to alleviate energy poverty in Africa and India is totally unfounded and smacks of desperation.

Insurance giant Allianz has announced it will no longer support the coal industry in a move designed to support the transition to a low - carbon economy.

For instance, while Wyoming is among the 27 states fighting President Obama's Clean Power Plan in court, the coal - rich state looks set to meet the emissions benchmarks in those power - plant rules, largely because of a giant wind farm poised to be built in, yes, Carbon County, and newly approved transmission lines to send electricity to states in the power - hungry Southwest.

This is why oil giants like ExxonMobil are investing more these days in natural gas, demand for which is expected to grow as electric utilities in Canada, the United States and Europe switch from coal to gas - fired power generation.

On 2011/12/22 the Wall Street Journal published online the following «Guohua, a unit of China's state - owned coal giant Shenhua Group, is acquiring interests in the 65 - megawatt Bluff Point and 75 - megawatt Studland Bay wind farms.»

Energy giant AGL announced it will close down its coal - fired power stations in 2050 (still too slow but a strong first step from the sector), Shell is stopping drilling for oil in the Artic, and Australia's major banks are also making overarching commitments to limit global warming to 2 ℃.

He said the energy demands from the giant LNG plants being built in the state's north would need at least 100MW of generation and represented the best opportunity for a «resurgence» in coal fired generation.

In 2015, Urgewald played a key role in convincing 2 of the world's largest investors - the Norwegian Government Pension Fund and the German insurance giant Allianz - to divest from most of their coal holdingIn 2015, Urgewald played a key role in convincing 2 of the world's largest investors - the Norwegian Government Pension Fund and the German insurance giant Allianz - to divest from most of their coal holdingin convincing 2 of the world's largest investors - the Norwegian Government Pension Fund and the German insurance giant Allianz - to divest from most of their coal holdings.

In the most dramatic example, the Anglo - Australian giant Rio Tinto in July sold its stake in the world's most expensive coal mine in Mozambique — effectively writing off more than $ 3 billioIn the most dramatic example, the Anglo - Australian giant Rio Tinto in July sold its stake in the world's most expensive coal mine in Mozambique — effectively writing off more than $ 3 billioin July sold its stake in the world's most expensive coal mine in Mozambique — effectively writing off more than $ 3 billioin the world's most expensive coal mine in Mozambique — effectively writing off more than $ 3 billioin Mozambique — effectively writing off more than $ 3 billion.

That has left swaths of industry in China struggling with limited gas, including giants like German chemical company BASF SE and local producer Yunnan Yuntianhua Co., as supplies are diverted to households that had previously relied on coal for heating.»

In each of these countries, the political pitched battle is between the 20th - century giants, Big Oil and Big Coal and the 21st - century realities for zero - carbon energy.

Peabody Energy follows rival U.S. coal giant Arch Coal in filing for bankruptcy this year, and according to Reuters, producers covering around 45 percent of U.S. coal output have filed for bankruptcy in recent yecoal giant Arch Coal in filing for bankruptcy this year, and according to Reuters, producers covering around 45 percent of U.S. coal output have filed for bankruptcy in recent yeCoal in filing for bankruptcy this year, and according to Reuters, producers covering around 45 percent of U.S. coal output have filed for bankruptcy in recent yecoal output have filed for bankruptcy in recent years.

In July 2011, billionaire Forrest E. Mars, Jr. reached an agreement with BNSF Railway and coal giant Arch Coal to buy one - third of the Tongue River Railrcoal giant Arch Coal to buy one - third of the Tongue River RailrCoal to buy one - third of the Tongue River Railroad.

This new technology is not readily available in China, but it is available to utilities in the U.S. Which brings us to the second article — an announcement by TXU, a giant Texas energy company, that it intends to build 11 new coal - fired power plants in Texas, plus another dozen or so elsewhere in the country.

Enel, the Italian energy giant, has pledged to phase out its investments in coal and aims to lead the power industry's efforts to combat climate change.

Since Rousseff — a former head of oil giant Petrobras — took power, however, the controls have been weakened, deforestation is once again on the rise, more hydropower plants are planned in the Amazon and the government has approved its first coal - fired plant in nine years.

The Pacific Climate Warriors are on the edge of a giant coal mine in Germany.

While it avoided overtly challenging climate science, Anglo - Swiss coal giant Glencore also dismissed the risk of stranded assets in its sustainability report this week.

Dozens of U.S. mining companies, including giants like Peabody Energy Corp. and Arch Coal Inc., have filed for bankruptcy in recent months as their earnings declined and debt loads soared.

In November 2010 PGE announced it was considering «giant reed grass» to replace coal at its Boardman facility.

Google, the search giant with the famous motto: «Don't be evil,» is boasting about its involvement in a 2012 coal industry lobbying effort to block the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) ability to protect the public from dangerous and potentially lethal coal plant emissions, according to a recently discovered Google case study.

In a statement issued Wednesday, 14 corporations that include oil leader Royal Dutch Shell, coal miners BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto, cement maker LafargeHolcim, and technology giants HP and Intel pushed for the United Nations Climate Change conference in Paris, France, this December, where almost 200 nations will agree to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and address climate changIn a statement issued Wednesday, 14 corporations that include oil leader Royal Dutch Shell, coal miners BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto, cement maker LafargeHolcim, and technology giants HP and Intel pushed for the United Nations Climate Change conference in Paris, France, this December, where almost 200 nations will agree to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and address climate changin Paris, France, this December, where almost 200 nations will agree to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and address climate change.

French energy giant Engie this week announced it will stop investing in coal in a victory for Les Amis de la Terre / Friends of the Earth France and its campaign against Engie's dirty energy investments.

The origins of the prominence of most of these greenhouse skeptics are spelled out, remarkably enough in several annual reports of the $ 400 million coal giant, the Western Fuels Association.

It is here that Tata, India's giant conglomerate and largest private electric utility, has been building what it hopes will be one of the largest coal power plants in the world, the 4,000 - megawatt Tata Mundra.

Much of Toronto's smog comes from coal - fuelled generating stations in the U.S. Midwest, and Ontario's giant Nanticoke plant.

Fossil fuel giant PetroVietnam is in the process of building the Long Phu 1 coal power plant in southern Vietnam and asked for international financial support from the U.S. Export - Import Bank (Ex-Im).

The booming energy sector of Southeast Asia, especially coal, is proving to be the new front line in the geopolitical rivalry between Asia's two industrial giants.