As everyone went around the table describing why they wanted to become a Climate Reality Leader, Jill — then in Bellingham — said she wanted to help stop the construction of the Gateway Pacific Terminal, which would be North America's
largest coal export terminal.
Denis Horgan, Vice President of Westshore Terminal at Roberts Bank in Delta —
the largest coal export facility on the Pacific coast — said the $ 230 million project is more about «staying efficient,» and carefully used the words «stockpile expansion.»
Yesterday's protest targeted the port at Newcastle, some 160 km north of Sydney, where the country's
largest coal export port is located.
Fred is deeply concerned about proposals to build
the largest coal export terminal in North America near Bellingham, Washington, and the herring spawning grounds of the Cherry Point Aquatic Reserve.
Located just two hours north of Portland, Oregon, along the Columbia River, the proposed terminal would ship a maximum of 44 million metric tons of coal from the Western United States each year to markets overseas, making it, if built,
the largest coal export terminal in the country.
Lighthouse Resources, the owner of a massive coal strip mine in Montana, wants to open North America's
largest coal export facility in Washington State.
Tell the Washington Department of Ecology to say NO to the nation's
largest coal export terminal.
For years, people of faith around Washington and across the country have spoken out against the proposal to construct the nation's
largest coal export terminal in Longview, Washington on the Columbia River.
Protesters from 12 South Pacific nations plan to block ships entering and leaving Australia's Port of Newcastle, the world's
largest coal export terminal
It is also looking at building
a large coal export facility in Oregon.
Not exact matches
If that and other planned expansions go ahead, Vancouver, which has visions of becoming the world's greenest city, could instead increase its capacity to
export the black stuff by almost half, becoming North America's
largest coal port.
As North American producers massively ramp up plans to
export coal to Asia, B.C. figures
large in their plans — and in opposition efforts of citizens worried about climate change.
Admittedly we are a net importer of oil (increasingly so as Bass Strait reserves diminish), but Australian entities make
large exports of natural gas and thermal
coal, whose prices are highly correlated with oil prices over time.
The
coal industry is booming driven by growth in
export demand for
coal world wide and the
large number of
coal - fired power plants currently scheduled to come online.
«The CO2 emissions related to China's
exports are
large not just because they
export a lot of stuff or because they specialize in energy - demanding industries, but because their manufacturing technologies are less advanced and they rely primarily on
coal for energy,» said co-author Klaus Hubacek, a University of Maryland professor of geographical sciences.
This industrial port town located just under two hours north of Sydney is the
largest coal -
exporting harbor in the world, and for far too long, it had a...
This industrial port town located just under two hours north of Sydney is the
largest coal -
exporting harbor in the world, and for far too long, it had a pretty grimy reputation.
South Africa is the world's second -
largest coal exporter, with developed countries accounting for 80 percent of its
coal exports.
If a country is a
large enough player in
coal export markets, then cutting back
exports will increase prices for internationally traded
coal, and hence give importers an incentive to use less.
The latest evidence comes in an Earth Day news release from Peabody Energy, the
largest private
coal company, which is thriving both domestically and through rapidly growing
coal exports from its worldwide mining operations to China, India and other developing countries.
Overseas,
large numbers of new mines are being proposed in a handful of
coal exporting countries: Indonesia, Mongolia, Mozambique, and South Africa.
For instance, South Africa, which depends on local
coal for about 77 percent of its energy needs and raises revenue from
exports (it is the world's fourth
largest exporter), says it is not going to give up on
coal for at least two decades.
Proposed Australian
coal export projects collectively have been identified as the second
largest proposed expansion of fossil fuel CO2 emissions after Chinese
coal mining.
A November 2007 presentation to investment analysts by the President of BHP Billiton
Coal, Dave Murray, noted that Drummond had an 5 % share of the global coal export trade, making it the equal fifth largest coal exporter in the wo
Coal, Dave Murray, noted that Drummond had an 5 % share of the global
coal export trade, making it the equal fifth largest coal exporter in the wo
coal export trade, making it the equal fifth
largest coal exporter in the wo
coal exporter in the world.
Although China is among the
largest producers of solar photovoltaic (PV) cells in the world, over 90 % of such PV cells are
exported, leading Shi Dinghuan (石定寰), the Chairman of the Chinese Renewable Energy Industries Association (CREIA) to lament that China ships out its clean energy only to leave pollution (i.e.
coal fired power generation) behind.
If the United States is successful in maintaining the viability of
coal as a cost - competitive power source while addressing climate concerns, our leadership position would enable U.S. industries to capture critical
export opportunities to the very nations facing the
largest challenges from global warming.
Indonesia... the worlds
largest coal exporter is working hard on making it's
coal more expensive to
export... http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/regulation-flares-indonesian-
coal-prices/443212/
The industry's plan B, to
export production to assumed perennial growth markets in Asia, has also floundered amid a global market awash with supply from other countries and weak demand; Chinese
coal consumption fell nearly 3 % in 2014 while India, the world's third
largest buyer, says it may stop imports of thermal
coal in the next three years With domestic markets collapsing and no lifeline from abroad, 264 [1] US mines were closed between 2011 and 2013.
Walking down East Patapsco, she pointed out the facilities as they came into view: the nation's
largest medical waste facility along with
coal export terminals, oil tank farms, animal rendering facilities, chemical factories and Baltimore City's main landfill — among others.
While met
coal has typically held a
larger market share of U.S.
exports than steam (its share remained relatively close to 55 % over a prolonged period), between 2009 and 2011 met
coal averaged two - thirds of U.S.
coal exports.
Norfolk has consistently remained the
largest export facility, servicing approximately one - third to one - half of U.S.
coal exports since 2000.
Shale: new production economics, regions, and technology Imminent LNG
Export: Significant volumes, long timeline
Coal - fired Power Replacement: Gradual,
large, predictable Liquids: rising gas production as an oil and NGL byproduct
Australia is the fourth
largest coal producer in the world, with much of it
exported to the Asian and South Asian markets.
(3) Other cases are described on my Columbia University web site, e.g., Switzerland finances construction of
coal plants, Sweden builds them, and Australia
exports coal and sets atmospheric carbon dioxide goals so
large as to guarantee destruction of much of the life on the planet.
Export credit agencies — including Ex-Im Bank — are collectively the
largest source of public financing for
coal and other fossil fuel projects abroad.
This year, U.S.
coal exports are at their highest level since 1992, and analysts believe the figure would be
larger if
export routes were available.
By denying permits for the
largest proposed
coal export terminal in North America, the Army Corps is honoring the Lummi Nation's treaty rights and protecting the Salish Sea for all people who call the Pacific Northwest home,» said Crina Hoyer, executive director of Bellingham's Re Sources for Sustainable Communities.
If the US
coal industry succeeds in exporting large quantities of publicly owned coal from the Powder River Basin, where most publicly owned coal is mined, to the Pacific seaborne coal market, it would have a similar effect, according to an economic analysis from Dr. Thomas Power, «The Greenhouse Gas Impact of Exporting Coal from the West Coast.&ra
coal industry succeeds in
exporting large quantities of publicly owned
coal from the Powder River Basin, where most publicly owned coal is mined, to the Pacific seaborne coal market, it would have a similar effect, according to an economic analysis from Dr. Thomas Power, «The Greenhouse Gas Impact of Exporting Coal from the West Coast.&ra
coal from the Powder River Basin, where most publicly owned
coal is mined, to the Pacific seaborne coal market, it would have a similar effect, according to an economic analysis from Dr. Thomas Power, «The Greenhouse Gas Impact of Exporting Coal from the West Coast.&ra
coal is mined, to the Pacific seaborne
coal market, it would have a similar effect, according to an economic analysis from Dr. Thomas Power, «The Greenhouse Gas Impact of Exporting Coal from the West Coast.&ra
coal market, it would have a similar effect, according to an economic analysis from Dr. Thomas Power, «The Greenhouse Gas Impact of
Exporting Coal from the West Coast.&ra
Coal from the West Coast.»
Wyoming is the world's 4th or 5 th
largest roducer of
coal, behind China (mostly poor quality brown
coal and well short of its own needs), Australia, and approximately the same annual output for
export as Poland or South Africa.
The unavailability of significant capacity limits
exports from the western United States, the country's
largest coal producing region, although the Seattle customs district has seen rapid growth over the past several years
exporting steam
coal via rail to Canada, where it is then shipped to Asia.
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.
Australia
exports three times as much
coal as it consumes locally, but two of the world's
largest markets for
coal, India and China, are cutting imports.
Let's start with the assumption that those US states which get significantly more than 50 % of their electricity from
coal, and / or states which
export, or plan to
export,
large amounts of
coal - fired electricity to neighboring states, are at highest risk of becoming economic «losers.»
Westshore
coal export terminal at Roberts Bank, in Delta, is the
largest export facility on the Pacific coast and there are plans to make it
larger.
Russia
exports huge quantities of oil, gas and
coal (they are the world's sixth
largest exporter of
coal)-- but they're relatively clean inside their borders.