Sentences with phrase «new coal fired power plants»

Expansion of grid supply by construction of big new coal fired power plants such as in the Hunter Valley and near Lithgow are going ahead and look to me to be intended to prevent the issue of decarbonising our energy supply getting mixed up with the issue of maintaining growth and reliability of supply; we'll have enough fossil fuel generating capacity that building low emissions capacity will remain «optional» and can be deferred another decade or two.

EPA just issued new CO2 controls for new coal fired power plants which is usurping Congressional authority.

Good old James Hansen, trying to avert a climate disaster, however it would seem that the USA might have no other option but to build 169 new coal fire power plants over the next decade could spell disaster.

In India, ten thousand citizens protested the proposed construction of 80 new coal fired power plants.

Due to the high cost of capturing, transporting, and sequestering carbon dioxide, EPA expects that any new coal fired power plants built in the foreseeable future will defray the costs of CCS by selling its carbon dioxide to oil companies, which can use the gas to help extract oil by displacing liquid fuels deep underground, in a process known as CO2 enhanced oil recovery (or CO2 - EOR).

Both here and in the US, new coal fired power plants are unable to find finance because banks see them as too risky.

Coincidentally, it's almost exactly equivalent to the emissions which will flow from all the NEW coal fired power plants currently under construction or development in the US, but just for the power they produce... not counting the full life cycle.

Asking the Development Bank of Southern Africa to publicly commit to not funding a new coal fired power plant in South Africa, called Thabametsi.