Sentences with phrase «of coal development»

Wendy Bowman, Australia: In the midst of an onslaught of coal development in Australia, octogenarian Wendy Bowman stopped a powerful multinational mining company from taking her family farm and protected her community in Hunter Valley from further pollution and environmental destruction.

There is still time for the World Bank to do the right thing and halt this dirty coal project as well as further WBG support of coal development more generally.

Because it will send a signal to countries like the Philippines, investing heavily in coal, or Turkey, or even some of the coal developments in Africa.

Not exact matches

The new restrictions seek to further reduce the flow of money to North Korea's weapons development, which is partially financed by selling coal and other natural resources.

Local company Prairie Mining has raised $ 15 million from UK - based CD Capital for the development of its Lublin coal project, with the potential for the private equity fund to invest a further $ 68 million.

«We take stock of coal market developments in 2017 and find that while U.S. production did recover slightly, it had nothing to do with a change in federal policy,» Rhodium Group analysts wrote in a recent note.

While coal jobs are unlikely to come back in droves with this or other actions the administration is taking, the move would make good on Trump's promise to rescind regulations that «unduly burden the development of domestic energy resources.»

«Each purchase of a white Coca - Cola can supports: false testimony on global warming; perpetration of the myth about endangered polar bears... activism to fight the development of affordable coal, oil and natural gas; hypocrites who won't follow their own recommendations; and expansion of already excessive environmental regulations.

«We're still dealing with the aftermath of layoffs in the coal industry,» said Michael Cornett, director of agency expansion and public relations of the Eastern Kentucky Concentrated Employment Program, a nonprofit, federally funded workforce development organization established in 1968 and headquartered in Hazard.

Mining companies in the Powder River Basin couldn't be happier about this development, since most of the coal that will be passing through Canada will be coming straight from Wyoming.

Street Talk also won't be surprised if the owner of the Dartbrook mine, Australian Pacific Coal, ends up in some sort of «conscious coupling» with unlisted Mach Energy, which owns the nearby Mt Pleasant development project.

That's a significant development because Canada is the fifth largest buyer of U.S. coal traditionally.

«Further, while the current agreement effectively blocks the development of clean coal in America,» Trump said, «China will be allowed to build hundreds of additional coal plants.

To support locally - driven efforts in coal country to spur job growth, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross today announced that the Department's Economic Development...

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

During his career, he has been Operations Executive at Zimasco in Zimbabwe, one of Africa's largest integrated ferrochrome producer, Head of Training and Development at the Hwange Colliery, Zimbabwe's largest coal producer and Head of HR at LionOre Mining's Africa division, until its acquisition by Norilsk Nickel.

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Trump vowed during the campaign to void U.S. commitments made in Paris last year to curb climate - changing carbon emissions, and to tear down regulatory barriers that he viewed as impeding development of coal, oil, and natural gas.

To examine transport infrastructure developments more closely, a detailed survey of the infrastructure associated with major coal and iron ore ports was undertaken.

Clearly, both candidates see the need for development of clean coal technology.

All I can see is that it is one of compression, concentration, and consequent development of terrific energy, represented not by souls, but by coal and iron and steam.1

Suppose secondly that China scaled back its development plans so that it only doubled its per person consumption of coal.

The Office of Water Science is leading the Australian Government's efforts to improve our understanding of the water - related impacts of coal seam gas and large coal mining development.

The best available science informs the Australian Government's approach to managing the environmental impacts of coal and coal seam gas development.

In Mozambique, the development of infrastructure to support the coal assets is more challenging than Rio Tinto originally anticipated.

Rio Tinto Limited («Rio Tinto»)(ASX: RIO) notes the announcement made by Coal & Allied Industries Limited («Coal & Allied»)(ASX: CNA) today relating to an indicative, conditional, incomplete and non-binding proposal from Rio Tinto, under which Rio Tinto and Mitsubishi Development Pty Ltd («Mitsubishi Development»), a wholly - owned subsidiary of Mitsubishi Corporation (TSE: 8058; LSE: MBC), would acquire all of the shares in Coal & Allied they do not already hold under a joint takeover («Proposal»).

Rio Tinto currently owns 75.7 per cent of Coal & Allied and Mitsubishi Development currently owns 10.2 per cent of Coal & Allied.

Given that Rio Tinto and Mitsubishi Development in aggregate hold more than 20 per cent of Coal & Allied, in accordance with the requirements of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth), Coal & Allied shareholders (other than Rio Tinto and Mitsubishi Development and their respective subsidiaries) will need to vote to approve the relevant joint bid arrangements between Rio Tinto, Mitsubishi Development and Hunter Valley Resources and their respective related bodies corporate («Coal & Allied Shareholder Approval») before the Scheme can proceed.

Unfortunately, around half of the new coal - fired generation capacity under development in the region still uses inefficient subcritical technologies.

Ed Cox, chairman of the Republican State Committee, has criticized Cuomo's economic development practices and issued a statement calling AMS» decision a «fat lump of coal.»

If this be the case, I earnestly appeal to the development - oriented Chief Servant at the helm of affairs in the Coal City to reconsider his stand and remember the inhabitants of the above streets.

In a news conference yesterday, Xu Shaoshi, the head of the National Development and Reform Commission in Beijing, said China will remove 500 million tons of coal production capacity in the next 3 to 5 years.

The next step is to get them operating on syngas [made from coal],» explained John Huggins, vice president of generation development at Mississippi Power.

Like fossil fuel development or not, the Kemper plant is at the center of U.S. EPA's plans to regulate carbon dioxide from new power plants and at the center of global emissions, considering that «low - rank» coals like Mississippi lignite constitute half the world's coal supply.

I was encouraged by President Obama's calls for the construction of more nuclear power plants, as well as for increased offshore exploration of oil and natural gas, and the further development of clean coal technologies.

«You can't get to stabilization without having to deal with carbon capture and storage from both the coal fleet [of power plants] and the natural gas fleet,» says Scott Klara, NETL's director of the office of coal and power systems research and development.

Yet, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and leaders of the world's eight richest nations, including President Bush, among others, have called the development of clean coal technology essential to preventing the consequences of climate change.

In Australia, about 40 out of 71 thermal coal mines surveyed by consultancy Wood Mackenzie had a cash cost of above $ 87 a metric ton, while many of the proposed projects require a coal price of $ 120 a metric ton to be viable, according to a report by Australia's Centre of Policy Development.

Not so fast, says Harry Gray of the California Institute of Technology: he's predicting at least 10 more years of research and development in order to make solar energy competitive with coal.

By calling for re-energizing CCS development, PCAST is making two judgments: 1) that the coal industry is highly likely to remain competitive even as it complies with EPA restrictions on emissions of SOx, NOx, Hg, and other toxics; and 2) that a substantial price on carbon is highly likely to arrive in a time frame of relevance for a CCS development effort.

McCain promises to pour $ 2 billion annually into the development of clean - coal technology.

The team used the data from charcoal in coal to propose that the development of fire systems through this interval was controlled predominantly by the elevated atmospheric oxygen concentration (p (O2)-RRB- that mass balance models predict prevailed.

Despite his criticisms of China's reliance on coal - fired power plants, Brown is upbeat about the country's alternative energy development.

Most of that change will have to take place in the developing world, whether replacing China's new coal - fired power plants or building wind, solar or geothermal facilities to power development in African countries.

The United States said Tuesday it plans to use its leverage within global development banks to limit financing for coal - fired power plants abroad, part of Washington's international strategy to combat climate change.

Currently, there are five coal - fired power plants registered as emission reduction projects under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), an international offsetting program run by an arm of the United Nations.

Further, Chinese officials have announced plans to explicitly cap China's total energy use at four billion metric tons of coal - equivalent by 2015; they also have drafted a «New Energy Industry Development Plan» that would invest amore than $ 750 billion in «new energy,» which includes nuclear, in the next decade.

With more money for development of novel designs and public financial support for construction — perhaps as part of a clean energy portfolio standard that lumps in all low - carbon energy sources, not just renewables or a carbon tax — nuclear could be one of the pillars of a three - pronged approach to cutting greenhouse gas emissions: using less energy to do more (or energy efficiency), low - carbon power, and electric cars (as long as they are charged with electricity from clean sources, not coal burning).

Ma Wen, a Greenpeace researcher on synthetic natural gas, told ClimateWire that Chinese policymakers had already postponed the release of a coal - to - natural - gas development guideline because of debates on whether or not the country should back up the sector.