Sentences with phrase «largest coal port»

When a Greenpeace protest vessel shut down Europe's largest coal port in 2005, Teske was on board.

Yesterday Australian climate activists blockaded the world's largest coal port and shut it down for several hours, leading to the arrest of 66 people.

Recently, the government, headed by Prime Minister Tony Abbott, triggered a public debate over plans to construct potentially the world's largest coal port adjacent to the Great Barrier Reef, a UNESCO World Heritage Area, and to excise 74,000 hectares of forest from Tasmania's World Heritage — listed site.

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.

Not exact matches

With coal trains already coursing through the Lower Mainland to the much larger Westshore and Neptune terminals, it's not surprising the environmental report behind the port authority's decision found no appreciable impacts on the health of area residents.

One feature hindering investment in both the NSW and Queensland coal industries is the fragmented ownership of the supply - chain assets; a large number of mines share mostly state - government - owned rail and port infrastructure.

In every direction, in the coal fields northwest of Brisbane, the world's largest producers are preparing to expand their mines, rails and ports so they can ship billions of tons of coal to East Asia and India.

Wollongong has a proud association with industry including coal mining and steel manufacture and is home to a large industrial port facility.

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.

In 2016, Oakland, California banned large - scale transportation of coal through its ports, due in part to concerns over the health impacts of coal dust.

Somewhat counterintuitively, most coal out of Baltimore — almost double the port's European volume — is destined for Asia, the world's largest coal consuming region.

Yesterday's protest targeted the port at Newcastle, some 160 km north of Sydney, where the country's largest coal export port is located.

In the port of Rotterdam, HES - owned EMO is by far the largest coal terminal.