Sentences with phrase «more coal imports»

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Beijing has already warned the country may soon hit peak coal production, forcing greater reliance on ever - more costly imports.

Drilling for natural gas has been promoted because it burns more cleanly than coal and can reduce dependence on imported energy sources, and it can also bring jobs to economically battered regions of the state.

«We need to more effectively use the international coal market to import more coal, especially for our southeast coastline.»

And coal imports fell by more than 10 percent.

For example, China gets about 20 per cent of its imported coal from Australia, but more than half of what Australia sends might not meet the new standards.

A Reuters report from 6 February suggests that, despite being the world's biggest coal producer and consumer, China may start importing more coal than it exports as early as the end of 2007.

Finally, taking a more worldly view, they estimated replacing coal - fired power plants in Japan with liquid - natural - gas plants that burn fuel imported from the United States would also be a net - plus for the environment, with a 15 percent emissions savings.

There's much more, including on - the - ground reporting from the 750 - megawatt Trianel power plant in Luenena, Germany, which only burns imported coal (Germany is closing down its coal mines).

That means no more oil imports from Canada and Venezuela and an end to coal mining in the United States and China.

China will be relying more and more on imported coal.

He also described the important role China sees for imports of natural gas as a path to cut its reliance on coal, its view on nuclear power and more.

But any benefits these policies might produce are threatened by skyrocketing imports of a fuel more polluting than coal or diesel.

Others note that Germany is a nation with nine direct neighbors and imports 100 % of its consumed uranium, 98 % of its oil, 82 % of its natural gas, and 77 % of its hard coal — and the bulk of oil and gas imports, about 35 % each (more than the EU average), come from Russia.

Moreover, it's something that can be mined and used within the U.S. Even though the country imports millions of short tons of coal per year, the rate has dropped dramatically in the last decade, from more than 34.5 million tons in 2006 to just 9.6 million tons in 2015.

In the case of coking coal, where quality issues are more difficult to overcome, we forecast imports increasing by over 5 % per year through 2022.

We forecast coal demand to more than quadruple between 2016 and 2022, with Pakistan emerging as a significant international player, with imports accounting for half of its consumption.

The United States is a net exporter of coal, meaning that it exports more coal to other countries than it imports.

If it closes the plants, it will import even more electricity — and keep coal plants on - line longer, notes Julian Spector of Greentech Media:

Of course, state reliance on imported coal for producing electricity creates more than economic problems.

The opponents have painted grim pictures of prices hikes, blackouts, increased use of coal, with more emissions, and massive imports of nuclear electricity from France and gas from Russia.

Not only are nuclear plants much more expensive than anticipated, but their primary competitor is no longer dirty coal or imported oil but instead clean, inexpensive domestic natural gas.

More renewable energy could lessen the fuel security risk, the study noted, but would also force coal and oil - fired generation retirements, boosting the need for liquified natural gas imports.

My understanding is that some oil producers import a lot of coal, because it's more profitable to export the oil.

In California they are saying, «we're not going to import any more coal.»

Still, with both an apparent viral grassroots response to pollution underway and an unprecedented drop in Chinese coal use, production and imports becoming increasingly evident, it seems likely that this trend is more than just hot air.

Next, we heard that Chinese coal imports had fallen too, an indicator that is considered much more reliable than domestic consumption by many experts.

China, which was a perennial coal exporter until 2009, the first year that it imported more than it sent out, is expected to import up to 150 million tons this year.

China is becoming increasingly reliant (more than the US) on imported fossil fuels, whether it is coal from Australia or oil from the Middle East / GuIf.