Coal is hardly even a source of middle class jobs given efforts by
major coal companies to bust their respective unions.
What these dry government numbers leave out is the effect on coal workers and their families as coal mines close and one
major coal company after another files for bankruptcy.
Not exact matches
Adani Group, controlled by the billionaire Gautam Adani, said it will now plan to finance the vast Carmichael
coal project on its own, but the
company faces an uphill struggle as both governments and
major banks adopt a harder line towards new
coal projects, citing the impact of
coal - fired power on climate change.
U.S. authorities have repeatedly targeted
companies and individuals from the Chinese city of Dandong, which borders North Korea, in a bid to cut off Pyongyang's
major export revenue from selling natural resources, such as
coal.
The transportation
company ships
coal and industrial products on its railroad, serving every
major port on the East Coast.
Public records show that at the start of 2014, the Foundation held $ 1.4 bn of investments in
major coal, oil and gas
companies.
The
Company owns and operates three surface
coal mines in the PRB, the lowest cost
major coal producing region in the nation.
Over a year which has seen large banks halt funding for fossil fuel projects,
major institutions divest from oil, gas and
coal holdings, and oil
companies snap up power and renewables
companies in a bid to diversify their asset base, research published today by the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF) and the Climate Change Collaboration suggests nervousness over climate risk has shot up in financial circles.
Similar to some oil and gas
companies, many
coal miners accumulated
major debt loads when prices were high and demand seemed sustainable.
In July 2010, Rothschild set up a shell
company, Vallar, and — with the Bakries — bought 25 % of PT Bumi Resources and 75 % of Berau
Coal Energy, two major Indonesian coal miners, in a $ 3 billion d
Coal Energy, two
major Indonesian
coal miners, in a $ 3 billion d
coal miners, in a $ 3 billion deal.
Avista owns a 15 - per - cent - stake in two of the four units at the Colstrip plant in Montana — a
major coal - mining state — and plans to use them for electricity production until 2035, said a spokesperson for the
company that also operates hydroelectric dams, natural gas and biomass generating plants and wind turbines.
In a
major blow to the government's plans to develop «clean»
coal technology (where fossil fuels are burnt and the emissions stored underground), the
company have postponed the project.
Yes, it's true that many
major banks invest in
companies that engage in the environmentally destructive practice of mountaintop removal (MTR)
coal mining, whereby the tops of mountains are removed by explosives to expose thin seams of recoverable
coal.
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.
The carbon entity data allows for the differentiation between carbon emissions, produced and marketed by each of the 90
major multi-national and state - owned
coal, oil and gas
companies (and their predecessors), and the total human attribution on climate change impacts.
Last year Greenpeace revealed that Willie Soon is exclusively funded by fossil fuel interests like Koch Industries, ExxonMobil and Southern
Company, a
major contributor to mercury air pollution from its
coal plants.
Most people think it's the oil industry in general that is promoting this FUD but ExxonMobile seems to be the only
major oil
company standing with the
coal industry and their ex-tobacco scientists, could this be because they have heavy investments in
coal but it's easier to scare people by telling them the greenies will take away their SUV's?
The presidents welcomed: (i) a grant from the U.S. Trade and Development Agency to the China Power Engineering and Consulting Group Corporation to support a feasibility study for an integrated gasification combined cycle (I.G.C.C.) power plant in China using American technology, (ii) an agreement by Missouri - based Peabody Energy to invest and participate in GreenGen, a project of several
major Chinese energy
companies to develop a near - zero emissions
coal - fired power plant, (iii) an agreement between G.E. and Shenhua Corporation to collaborate on the development and deployment of I.G.C.C. and other clean coal technologies; and (iv) an agreement between AES and Songzao Coal and Electric Company to use methane captured from a coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissi
coal - fired power plant, (iii) an agreement between G.E. and Shenhua Corporation to collaborate on the development and deployment of I.G.C.C. and other clean
coal technologies; and (iv) an agreement between AES and Songzao Coal and Electric Company to use methane captured from a coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissi
coal technologies; and (iv) an agreement between AES and Songzao
Coal and Electric Company to use methane captured from a coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissi
Coal and Electric
Company to use methane captured from a
coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissi
coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
American Electric Power is a member of the American
Coal Ash Association (ACAA), an umbrella lobbying group for all coal ash interests that includes major coal burners Duke Energy and Southern Company as well as dozens of other compan
Coal Ash Association (ACAA), an umbrella lobbying group for all
coal ash interests that includes major coal burners Duke Energy and Southern Company as well as dozens of other compan
coal ash interests that includes
major coal burners Duke Energy and Southern Company as well as dozens of other compan
coal burners Duke Energy and Southern
Company as well as dozens of other
companies.
Air pollution from Europe's 300 largest
coal power stations causes 22,300 premature deaths a year and costs
companies and governments billions of pounds in disease treatment and lost working days, says a
major study of the health impacts of burning
coal to generate electricity.
While many of the defecting
companies said their anti-Kyoto posture had not changed, this was a
major blow to a 10 - year campaign by oil,
coal and automotive interests to prevent public action to address the climate crisis.»
«It includes
companies whose
major business is
coal exploration, processing
coal, producing specialized equipment for
coal mining, transporting or trading
coal, converting
coal to oil or gas, manufacturing equipment for
coal power stations and many other activities along the thermal
coal value chain.
That figure may well be much smaller by the time of the next election, because the market value of some of the
major companies has been falling rapidly, and the value of their
coal, oil and gas fired power stations is falling even faster.
Major investors such as Norway's sovereign wealth fund — the world's biggest — have already begun selling off high - carbon stocks such as
coal companies.
The best example of this is
coal, which was in the news this week for a
major transaction involving the sale of a leading
coal company's mines.
The
coal, gas and oil
companies that are
major producers of greenhouse gases are finally taking notice of these high - level political discussions, and many have mounted spirited public relations exercises to defend themselves, and even win endorsements of their products.
E.ON is a member of the American
Coal Ash Association (ACAA), an umbrella lobbying group for all coal ash interests that includes major coal burners Duke Energy, Southern Company and American Electric Power as well as dozens of other compan
Coal Ash Association (ACAA), an umbrella lobbying group for all
coal ash interests that includes major coal burners Duke Energy, Southern Company and American Electric Power as well as dozens of other compan
coal ash interests that includes
major coal burners Duke Energy, Southern Company and American Electric Power as well as dozens of other compan
coal burners Duke Energy, Southern
Company and American Electric Power as well as dozens of other
companies.
But there is clearly a
major mismatch between the straight line on your UK Hubbert analysis, and the fact that private commercial
companies are opening new
coal mines in South Wales.
Greenpeace included in its data owners and board members of oil, gas and
coal mining
companies and firms that transport these fossil fuels, and people with
major investments in the
companies.
The
company has been a
major player in
coal regions across the U.S., including Appalachia and the Powder River Basin.
The slump in
coal prices has driven at least two dozen coal companies into bankruptcy in the last three years alone, including major producers like James River Coal and Patriot Coal Corporation, after many of the worst performers — who betted on an upturn that never came — made acquisitions and borrowed heav
coal prices has driven at least two dozen
coal companies into bankruptcy in the last three years alone, including major producers like James River Coal and Patriot Coal Corporation, after many of the worst performers — who betted on an upturn that never came — made acquisitions and borrowed heav
coal companies into bankruptcy in the last three years alone, including
major producers like James River
Coal and Patriot Coal Corporation, after many of the worst performers — who betted on an upturn that never came — made acquisitions and borrowed heav
Coal and Patriot
Coal Corporation, after many of the worst performers — who betted on an upturn that never came — made acquisitions and borrowed heav
Coal Corporation, after many of the worst performers — who betted on an upturn that never came — made acquisitions and borrowed heavily.
Yet a message of denial and confusion got the industry only so far, so the main backers of CEED, including Western Fuels and
major coal producers like Peabody and Southern
Company, formed Americans for Balanced Energy Choices (ABEC) to promote clean
coal.
In July 2013, Storebrand, a
major Norwegian pension fund advisor, excluded from its Energy Sector all 13
coal producers and the 6 oil
companies with the highest exposure to tar sands «to reduce Storebrand's exposure to fossil fuels and to secure long term, stable returns for our clients...»»
Now ExxonMobil — the only
major oil
company to deny the reality of climate change — has joined the
coal industry to finance the skeptics, confuse the public and undermine the work of 2,000 scientists from 100 countries on the IPCC.
The first, is a
major focus on mapping out the implications of the energy transition involved for key stakeholders, with a focus on
coal, oil and gas sectors, on capital expenditure by
companies and scenario planning around demand and supply.
'' So far in 2008, the
major industry players, Southern
Company, Duke Energy, American Electric Power, the Edison Electric Institute, and American Coalition For Clean
Coal Electricity spent $ 4.0 million on broadcast and cable television advertising; $ 0.4 million on radio advertising; $ 2.4 million on print advertising in magazines and newspapers; $ 0.1 million on internet advertising; and $ 0.3 million on other types of advertising.
«It is simply not acceptable for
major companies to mimic the unethical strategy of the tobacco
companies in presenting blatantly false information in order to protect a business model,» Gore added, alleging that's what some oil and
coal companies are doing.
The carbon entity data allows for the differentiation between carbon emissions, produced and marketed by each of the 90
major multi-national and state - owned
coal, oil and gas
companies (and their predecessors), and the total human attribution on climate change impacts.
In the interest of preventing federal regulation of
coal ash, which AEP stores in numerous dangerous sites, Kavanagh attended a meeting at the White House alongside representatives from Duke Energy, Southern
Company, Progress Energy, and other
major industry groups.
He sent out a media release purporting to come form a
major bank announcing it was withdrawing a loan to a
company planning a
major new
coal mine.
Peabody Energy, the world's largest
coal company, was a
major conference sponsor.
In April 2017, AXA was also the first
major insurer to stop underwriting the
coal companies in which it would no longer invest.
Even as Peabody Energy and Arch
Coal declare bankruptcy,
major fossil fuel
companies and trade groups shell out nearly $ 115 million a year to fight policies that would address climate change.
Then: Gehri was a research specialist at Southern
Company, a major US coal electricity utility c
Company, a
major US
coal electricity utility
companycompany.
The
companies that represent the biggest risk in a demand misread to the climate and shareholders alike in the next decade are a mix of state and listed
companies, including oil
majors Royal Dutch Shell, Pemex, Exxon Mobil, and
coal miners Peabody, Coal India, and Glenc
coal miners Peabody,
Coal India, and Glenc
Coal India, and Glencore.
Energy is «a sector of the economy where we're used to being takers and not givers,» says Vic Svec, senior vice president for investor relations at Peabody Energy, the world's largest private sector
coal company, which is seeking to be a
major exporter here.
(05/07/2014) The fossil fuel divestment campaign won a
major victory today as Stanford University announced it would drop
coal companies from its massive $ 18.7 billion endowment, the fourth largest of any American university.
Big
coal — in the form of the National Rural Electric Association, Koch Industries, American Electric Power, the Southern
Company, the National Association of Manufacturers and others are planning a
major blitz against efforts to fight global warming.
The Electric Reliability Coordinating Council, a lobbying group that represents energy
companies with
major investments in
coal - fired power plants, has prepared an analysis that cites a study estimating that a phase - out of
coal plants could cost consumers $ 13 billion to $ 17 billion a year between 2018 and 2033.
Given that nearly all the
major US
coal companies are now bankrupt, and that
coal - fired electricity is declining rapidly, I'd have expected a lot of «wrecking ball» pieces on the supposed damage to the economy (in reality, the effects are small and mostly offset by the expansion of renewables) now that mitigation policies of various kinds are taking effect.