Sentences with phrase «new coal fields»

In Queensland huge new coal fields are being opened up.

Not exact matches

Additionally the construction jobs themselves will put overall pressure on wages, and workers in otherwise stranded industries, like coal, may find new work in new fields.

Maxwell Ball, manager for clean coal technologies at SaskPower in Regina, which owns the plant, says that the company was surprised to learn that it would be cheaper in the long term to keep burning coal at Boundary Dam and sell the carbon dioxide to oil companies to boost production in the oil field than to build a new natural - gas plant.

The World Energy Outlook 2016, released last week, is just one among an increasing line of studies showing how nations need to slow and, ultimately, phase out investment in new fossil fuel supply infrastructure — from oil fields and pipelines to coal mines — if they are serious about keeping warming to 2C or less.

across those 20 years... eg Today thru Yr 1 — Global Moratorium on opening new coal mines and new gas fields.

Yr5 + — Permanent Global Ban on exploration and opening new Coal / Gas fields and the building new Coal Fired Power Stations Yr10 — Global Moratorium on building / opening new GAS Fired Power Stations.

They reason that any new coal mine or oil field or natural gas pipeline would need to be shut down early to avoid emissions that would go beyond the agreed level of warming.

A new report from Oil Change International calculates that, in order to accomplish those goals, governments need to stop permitting and building all new fossil fuel projects and retire early some existing oil and gas fields and coal mines.

And, finally, in contrast to investments in oil fields and coal mines, where depletion and abandonment are inevitable, the new energy sources are inexhaustible.

PA, your scenario for a 600 ppm cap involves leaving significant amounts of known coal resources in the ground, not developing Arctic oil or exploring for any other new oil fields, including shale oil, and not developing methyl clathrates as a methane source.

Critics will say that some of the market forces acting in favor of gas against coal for EPG are market distortions brought to you by an overeager EPA — that the new air quality standards are unnecessary and if removed will level the playing field back toward coal.

For example, the Buffalo Field Office of the Wyoming State BLM office has proposed a Regional Management Plan (RMP) and Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) which estimates 28 new coal leases amounting to 10.2 billion tons of coal.

One BLM field office in Wyoming recently proposed a plan that estimates new coal leases amounting to 10.2 billion tons, which would unlock an estimated 16.9 billion metric tons of carbon pollution.

Through his leadership, this portfolio of companies is advancing new products in fields such as solar desalination, industrial water treatment, enhanced geothermal energy, coal gasification and alternative chemicals.

That's right: If we're serious about preventing catastrophic warming, the new study shows, we can't dig any new coal mines, drill any new fields, build any more pipelines.

Some of his large projects were increased coal production and power generation in the Latrobe Valley, new offshore oil and gas fields in Gippsland, the West Gate Bridge over the lower Yarra River, a new international airport for Melbourne at Tullamarine and two new universities (Monash University and La Trobe University).