Sentences with phrase «of abandoned coal mine»

Instead of abandoning coal, China is developing cleaner and higher - efficiency coal plants — and, as a boon to its plan for greater regional influence, aims to export the technology abroad.

Not exact matches

Southern Company has been making a lot of the right moves in my opinion from abandoning the Clean Coal Project to looking to position themselves as a clean energy company.

It continues to burn today, moving through a vast network of abandoned mines that are still littered and lined with coal.

In September 2005, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a United Nations organization that includes scientists from nearly every country in the world, released a report estimating that 2 trillion tons of carbon dioxide could be stored in old coal mines, abandoned oil and gas fields, and in various other geologic formations around the world.

Executive - turned - environmentalist Ian Dunlop says that mining corporations will have to abandon much of their coal to avoid climate and business suicide

Acid mine drainage (AMD) refers to the outflow of acidic water from coal or metal mines, often abandoned ones where ore - or coal mining activities have exposed rocks containing the sulphur - bearing mineral pyrite.

Yan highlights the empty streets around the luxury towers of Coal Harbour, where one in four condos are non-resident occupied, as an illustration of Vancouver's abandoned homes problem.

Lesser - known designs are also featured, including a never - realized, coal - shaped skyscraper for a 2007 national design competition held by the nation of Andorra — a contest that was eventually (and perhaps wisely) abandoned.

He combines fantastical technologies with images drawn from the mining town of Centralia, Pennsylvania, a town abandoned following an underground coal fire that started in 1962 and continues to this day.

However, during the 1960s he abandoned traditional painting in favour of a host of everyday materials with which he created sculptures and installations, using wool, coal, iron, stones, earth, wood and even, controversially, live animals.

The wrong way is to jeopardize our energy and economic security by abandoning nuclear power and our nation's huge reserves of coal.

There's scant evidence that well - meaning efforts to raise public awareness and will around the climate challenge will engender willingness to abandon the fuels of convenience — coal and oil — particularly where expanded energy use matters most, in the fast - growing nations of the developing world.

Of course, in March, 2001, just two months into his term and under strong pressure from oil, coal, and car companies, Mr. Bush abandoned that pledge.

President Obama was right when he campaigned on the idea that the country has to abandon its «shock to trance» approach to energy policy and investment if it ever hopes to cut the addiction to oil pointed out by his predecessor, not to mention the persistent allure of coal («clean» or otherwise).

But the prospect has spawned a fierce lobbying effort by conservative Republicans and some coal, oil and industry groups, which are urging Mr. Bush to abandon his campaign stance and any mention of carbon dioxide.

Once in office, Mr. Bush did a complete turnaround in March 2001, abandoning that pledge under intensive lobbying of the White House by coal and oil companies, and industries whose profits depend on selling things that use energy.

Even after decades of increasingly dire warnings, the US has still not passed comprehensive federal legislation to combat global warming; Canada has abandoned past pledges in order to exploit its emissions - heavy tar sands; China continues to depend on coal for its energy production; Indonesia's effort to stem widespread deforestation is facing stiff resistance from industry; Europe is mulling pulling back on its more ambitious cuts if other nations do not join it; northern nations are scrambling to exploit the melting Arctic for untapped oil and gas reserves; and fossil fuels continue to be subsidized worldwide to the tune of $ 400 billion.

When the president announced his intent to abandon the Clean Power Plan this spring and then withdraw from the Paris agreement this summer, one of the biggest reasons cited was to protect the coal jobs sustaining communities in places like Appalachia.

«In addition to abandoning more than 80 percent of current global coal reserves, the researchers say, the world should forego extracting a third of its oil and half of its gas reserves before 2050,» National Geographic reported, with apparent approval.

The Sierra Club, which has kept a tally of proposed coal - fired power plants and their fates since 2000, reports that 152 plants in the United States have been defeated or abandoned.

Who cares about 8 % unemployment, the flatlined economy, abandoning Americans to die in Bengahzi, Joe Biden's buffonery, fast & furious, national debt, USA credit downgrade, trillion dollar annual budget deficits, deliberate sabotage of the coal industry, ACORN, failed foreign policy (Iran with nuclear weapons, bowing to China, stiffing U.K and Israel, etc) abysmal people judgement (Biden again, plus H. Clinton, T, Geithner; K. Sebelius; E. Holder, etc), stopping the pipeline for Canadian oil, blocking drilling in US land, secret «kill lists», ObamaCare, attacking religious liberty, you didn't build that, unseemly chest - pounding over bin Laden (GM is dying but bin Laden is coming back to life), 20 years of Jeremiah Wright, failure of crony capitalism deals with Solyndra - NextEra — Ener1 — Solar Trust etc., over 100 rounds of golf in 1st 3 yrs, choom, the Chevy Volt, insisting the Ft Hood massacre was «workplace violence», secret college transcripts, «clearly the Boston police acted stupidly», disregard of the Simpson - Bowles budget recommendations (after commissioning their work), and lots more irrelevant stuff.

But my point is, all the hybrid and electric vehicle technologies in the world will hardly make a dent if car ownership and use continue to increase, if oil (or coal, in the case of electric cars) continues to be burnt, and if roads and highways continue to be built out with reckless abandon.

With some guidance from a GIS specialist at OSM we believe this map provides a decent overview of the known high - priority abandoned coal mines, but please let us know if you discover any mistakes by commenting below.

The spill from the Gold King Mine was not the first of its kind, and it most likely will not be the last, but it revived discussion about the challenge and cost of reclaiming an estimated 500,000 abandoned and inactive mines (gold, coal, and otherwise) that litter the landscape.

However, because this map only includes mines that are truly abandoned AND which have been catalogued by the federal government, this map is probably not a complete inventory of the abandoned and inactive coal mines in the US.

In abandoning the CPP, the decline in coal's share of generation in the US will slow significantly, but coal is unlikely to regain the market share lost over the last decade.

The idea that many other world countries that desire high energy growth using coal fuel regardless of the greenhouse gas emission levels are going to abandon their enormous existing use and future growth of coal fuel because of California's ridiculous climate alarmist driven schemes is totally absurd.

Before the government decided to abandon the proposed Clean Energy Target it put a lot of effort into redefining coal as «clean».

To deal with the failures of «going green» Western governments, still wanting to appear green, justify abandoning alternate energies and returning to coal by saying energy and jobs are more important in the short term.

«That means not forcing electric utilities to abandon the use of coal.»

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That's why the committee proposes $ 60 m a year for research into lessening the environmental impacts of coal mining, such as mitigating disturbance of groundwater and surface water systems, minimizing the risk of ground collapse, and reducing the effects of acid mine drainage from abandoned mines.

Specifically the dissenting groups say that TXU should have been forced to abandon all of its plans to build new coal - fired power plants, not just some.

After less than two months in office, the new president, George W. Bush, had announced that he would abandon a campaign promise to regulate carbon dioxide from coal - burning power plants, our greatest contributors to the greenhouse effect, and then swiftly pulled out of the Kyoto Protocol, the first binding international agreement to limit greenhouse gas emissions.

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The Electric Power Development Company of Tokyo announced last week that it is abandoning plans for two new 600 - megawatt coal plants near Kobe.

To abandon coal all together would strip a life and source of income away from countless thousands of people in our country, leaving them with nothing to do and nowhere to go.

With coal on the ropes, JPMorgan Chase added loans for OECD coal mines and power plants to its list of «Prohibited Transactions,» and bankrupt Arch Coal abandoned plans to mine in Montana's Otter Crcoal on the ropes, JPMorgan Chase added loans for OECD coal mines and power plants to its list of «Prohibited Transactions,» and bankrupt Arch Coal abandoned plans to mine in Montana's Otter Crcoal mines and power plants to its list of «Prohibited Transactions,» and bankrupt Arch Coal abandoned plans to mine in Montana's Otter CrCoal abandoned plans to mine in Montana's Otter Creek.

President Obama also pushed hard to create the Reclaim Act and the Power Initiative, two federal programs designed to reinvest money into coal communities and fund the reclamation of abandoned mine sites.

Developers of a solar farm atop a former Kentucky coal mining site hope their work will inspire similar projects — putting abandoned land to use and helping revive the Appalachian economy.

In January 2010, the AP Press reported that $ 395 million was available for abandoned coal mine reclamation funds provided by the U.S. Department of the Interior.

To remind them, there are 260 million tons of abandoned waste coal in piles that mar about 8,500 acres across the state.

There are laws and rules that address the impacts of current mining operations and abandoned mine sites; air pollution from coal combustion; and disposal of the ash left over after coal is burned.

Under mounting pressure from environmental groups, TXU Corporation, a Dallas - based energy company, abandons plans for 8 of 11 proposed coal - fired power plants, catalyzing the shift from coal - based to renewable energy development in Texas.

The House committee, though, drew a different conclusion in its report, dramatically titled The Passing of FutureGen: How the World's Premier Clean Coal Technology Project Came to be Abandoned.

Illinois Energy Group's 1500 MW project in Franklin County, Illinois, which was included in the Department of Energy's May, 2007, «Tracking New Coal - Fired Power Plants» survey, has been abandoned.

Following the denial of permits for Sunflower's Holcomb plants, the Kansas City Board of Public Utilities abandons plans to build a 235 MW coal plant at Nearman Creek in Wyandotte County.

39 environmental groups have drafted a letter asking the Obama administration to «reject a pending federal rule that will make it easier to dispose of coal combustion waste from power plants in abandoned mines» and tighten rules regarding coal ash disposal.

Furthermore, metro systems, coal mines, and boreholes have completely altered the subterranean landscape of England by creating artificial holes and caverns in the subsurface that remain even when mines are abandoned.

26 February 2007 - Under mounting pressure from environmental groups, TXU Corporation, a Dallas - based energy company, abandons plans for 8 of 11 proposed coal - fired power plants, catalyzing the shift from coal - based to renewable energy development in Texas.