Sentences with phrase «new coal production»

However, a Chinese government report recently found that only a tiny fraction of Chinese cities fully complied with pollution standards in 2013, while approving the construction of more than 100 million tonnes of new coal production capacity in 2013, according to a Reuters report.

The scale of the increase, which only includes major mines, reflects Beijing's aim to put 860 million tonnes of new coal production capacity into operation over the five years to 2015, more than the entire annual output of India.

BEIJING, Jan 8 (Reuters)-- China approved the construction of more than 100 million tonnes of new coal production capacity in 2013 — six times more than a year earlier and equal to 10 percent of U.S. annual usage — flying in the face of plans to tackle choking air pollution.

Not exact matches

Global production grew only 2 %, as the Obama administration announced strict new rules limiting carbon emissions by coal plants.

Sixty - five percent of the world's coal production is unprofitable at today's prices, a new research report by Wood Mackenzie, a commercial intelligence company often cited by investment analysts and the coal industry itself, concluded.

Chief executive Tom Albanese said «We have set new quarterly records for iron ore sales and hard coking coal production as our operations recovered from the severe weather experienced earlier in the year.

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.

That's when a new steam engine fueled by coal allowed for greater production of the dirty black rock that then fired ever more new steam engines and inaugurated the industrial revolution — as well as the problem of climate change.

He put the birth date of the new epoch at the period after the Industrial Revolution, when humans were causing massive shifts in the biosphere, triggered by coal production.

The model produces different jobs and growth projections for a business - as - usual scenario with no technology breakthroughs or major new policies, and then generates different outcomes by factoring in new policies such as a national clean energy standards such as proposed by President Obama; increases in corporate average fuel economy standards; tougher environmental controls on coal - fired power generators; extended investment and production tax credits for clean energy sources and an expanded federal energy loan guarantee program.

After all, the 10 RGGI states are connected to a national grid for power that can allow, for example, cheaper, dirtier power from coal - fired power plants in Ohio to substitute for reduced electricity production at a coal plant in New York State.

Coal - powered synthetic natural gas plants being planned in China would produce seven times more greenhouse gas emissions than conventional natural gas plants, and use up to 100 times the water as shale gas production, according to a new study by Duke University researchers.

Coal - powered synthetic natural gas plants being planned in China would produce seven times more greenhouse gas emissions than conventional natural gas plants, and use up to 100 times the water as shale gas production, according to a new study.

A new study finds that methane emissions from shale gas production are nearly 50 times lower than previous estimates, improving the climate benefit of switching from coal to natural gas.

From a proposed border tariff that could affect energy imports and exports, to recent approvals for new oil pipelines and an early rollback of regulations on coal production, the Trump administration is likely to usher in significant changes in energy policy.

China Energy News, a state - run newspaper, cited a policymaker Monday as saying that China will complete the construction of approved coal - to - natural - gas plants but will not approve new projects until 2020, aiming to keep its coal - based synthetic natural gas production capacity to 15 billion cubic meters at the end of the decade.

They also made new estimates of emissions from imported coal, oil, and gas, and from cement production.

Other factors that have significantly contributed to reduced U.S. carbon emissions are the recent new growth in domestic natural gas production - consumption and EPA regulations that have restricted new coal power plant construction.

In the Four Corners region, which is the area where New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado and Utah meet, the methane emissions are caused mainly by the production and transport of natural gas from coal beds, said the NASA team.

It is appalling that while the federal government is pushing offshore oil drilling and mountaintop - removal coal mining, proposing to strip - mine shale oil and tar sands and to dramatically expand the production of high - level nuclear waste, they have declared a two - year moratorium on new solar electric power plants on public lands — which have some of the best solar energy resources in the world — for «environmental reasons».

208 nigelj says: «Thomas @ 201, good idea on global agreements on no new coal mines [CUT PRODUCTION] etc..

Here's a solution: All the sovereign States with gas, oil, and coal reserves, can use their sovereign power to simply clamp down on production, driving FF prices higher, and achieve the Nirvana New Energy Future as rapidly as is physically possible.

Unfortunately, Piyush Goyal, India's Minister of State for Power, Coal, and New and Renewable Energy, intends to double his nation's coal production by the year 2019 to meet domestic energy requiremeCoal, and New and Renewable Energy, intends to double his nation's coal production by the year 2019 to meet domestic energy requiremecoal production by the year 2019 to meet domestic energy requirements.

The country is increasing steel production and has 78 gigawatts of new coal - based plants currently under construction.

[D] espite additions of substantial wind, solar, and nuclear capacity, when properly adjusted for capacity factor (the amount of annual energy produced per unit of capacity) to reflect production capability, the amount of new coal energy added to the China grid last year exceeded new solar energy by 17 times, new wind energy by more than 4 times, and even new hydro by more than 3 times.

The cost of production of electricity through utilization of solar energy is outpacing other alternatives as the cost accrued in investing in the installation of solar panels is turning out to be comparatively cheaper than a comparable investment in coal, natural gas or other options, according to a new World Economic Forum (WEF) report.

If the United States starts weaning off of oil and coal and onto homegrown biofuels, renewables, nuclear and other options, how much land will be gobbled up by new forms of energy production?

New coal - fired plants are also proposed in some developing countries where there's currently limited or no domestic coal production, such as Cambodia and Senegal.

No new coal mines will be viable except in India to replace imports, and no new export coal production will be needed.

Despite a decline in U.S. coal production since 2008, dozens of new mines are still being proposed, some to replace declining production at existing mines and others to provide coal for growing exports.

Out of the top 120 companies planning new coal power stations, only about half have a coal share of power production above 30 %.

In their official review of Germany's report, the governments of China, Indonesia, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand and the United States as well as the OECD concluded unequivocally that «there are additional subsidies that benefit the production of hard coal and lignite, yet have not been included.»

An analysis made public on Friday showed that new onshore wind plants due to come online in 2016 will cost... far less [per kWh] than coal, biomass and other forms of energy production.

Look for more specific targets in its new Plan, such as more renewable energy targets pre-2020, additional caps on coal production, more low - carbon pilot cities and a rebalancing of the economy from heavy industry and steel to a focus on services.

Both of these models included a number of parameters that were fitted to historical production data, including: (1) coal for New South Wales, Australia; (2) gas from the North Sea, UK; and (3) oil from the North Sea, UK, and individual state data from the USA.

We did that in 2017 with the People's Climate March, the Promise to Protect pledge against the Keystone XL pipeline, the anti-fracking campaign in Brazil, and a new regional strategy to curb coal production in East Asia.

«Action taken to increase Australia's capacity for fossil fuel production — such as increasing export capacity or commissioning new coal mines — is difficult to reconcile with the goals of the Paris Agreement,» the report says.

Germany is falling far short of true climate leadership — our new report details why it must end coal production swiftly with a just transition and stop funding fossil fuels aboard.

A new paper argues that industrial waste from steel and aluminum production and coal burning could be used to sequester atmospheric carbon.

Repealing federal regulations that the new administration claims has restricted coal production does not change the fact that demand for coal in the power sector will continue to struggle in the face of other competitive pressures.

This basic approach would outlaw any new coal and nuclear production plants and set forth a timetable to go steadily from the 9 percent renewables1 used today to 60 percent by 2037, with the rest of the portfolio supplied by natural gas.

When potential supply is compared to the Energy Information Administration's (EIA) Annual Energy Outlook (AEO) 2016 Reference Case for PRB coal production, which does not constrain warming to 2 °C, total business as usual (BAU) supply is provided by existing leases until 2031, with production from new leases only being required thereafter.

excerpts: The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) climate rule is particularly unpopular in heavy coal production states that would be hit the hardest, a new industry - backed study finds.

The EPA could issue GHG performance standards for existing (as distinct from new or modified) coal power plants, as well as GHG performance standards for other industrial categories (refineries, cement production facilities, steel mills, paper mills, etc.).

There are currently more than 130 new coal plants proposed across the U.S., and Energy Information Administration (EIA) projects a 66 percent increase in coal - based power production and a 43 percent increase in CO2 emissions by 2030.

In addition to regulating fuel economy, EPA is applying Clean Air Act permitting requirements to large stationary sources of greenhouse gases: power plants, refineries, steel mills, pulp and paper factories, and cement production facilities.63 EPA will soon establish greenhouse gas New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for coal - fired power plants and petroleum refineries.64 If these go unchallenged, it is likely that EPA will develop greenhouse gas performance standards for numerous other industrial source categories.

Although initially directed against new coal, the standard puts all fossil - energy production in an ever - tightening regulatory noose.

Deploying additional capital expenditure into high cost production is risky, especially for new mines, which typically require expensive new rail infrastructure and port facilities to get coal to market.

Shale: new production economics, regions, and technology Imminent LNG Export: Significant volumes, long timeline Coal - fired Power Replacement: Gradual, large, predictable Liquids: rising gas production as an oil and NGL byproduct

If they withstand the expected legal challenges, the regulations will set in motion sweeping policy changes that could shut down hundreds of coal - fired power plants, freeze construction of new coal plants and create a boom in the production of wind and solar power and other renewable energy sources.