Sentences with phrase «of coal exports»

Today in 2012 our determination can stop the expansion of coal exports.

Residents are concerned that with the increase of coal export activity, the facility's permit is not up to standards to protect the community.

We hope it lays a foundation for those seeking to understand basics of coal exports.

Some scholars have offered up the idea of establishing an international system of coal export restrictions.

Exports to South Korea, Japan, China, and India together accounted for approximately one - fourth of all coal exports in the fourth quarter of 2011.

It is actually hard to see because the amount of coal export from there is so incredibly tiny that is is barely perceptible relative to the exports from the Seattle Customs District, which covers the Cloud Peak shipments to Westshore.

This project's environmental review clearly finds that this unprecedented amount of coal export along the Columbia River will harm the health, economic, and environmental vitality of Longview and other communities along the train tracks.

In early March 2011 Millennium Bulk Terminals CEO Joe Cannon stated that the firm would withdraw consideration of the coal export proposal from its initial application and seek approval for it separately.

Since 2000, the capacity of coal export ports is estimated to have increased by around 19 per cent, with expansions occurring at the Hay Point, Newcastle and Gladstone ports, which together account for over 90 per cent of Australia's coal exports.

South Africa is the world's second - largest coal exporter, with developed countries accounting for 80 percent of its coal exports.

Here's the reaction from Raymond T. Pierrehumbert, a climate scientist at the University of Chicago who has weighed in on Dot Earth on questions raised by the ever growing flow of coal exports to China from industrialized countries — notably the United States and Australia:

Richard Morse, an analyst of coal markets, climate policy and China at Stanford University, offered a long response to Pope's thoughts and the initial discussion of coal exports that is also posted separately.

Overseas, large numbers of new mines are being proposed in a handful of coal exporting countries: Indonesia, Mongolia, Mozambique, and South Africa.

Rainforest Action Network along with Peaceful Uprising, Utah Moms for Clean Air and the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers organized a 60 person rally in from of the office of coal exporter Ambre Energy asking them to stop their development of coal export facilities in Longview, Washington.

Read more here by Marc Lee on how accepted accounting methods hide the fact that BC exports huge amounts of GHG emissions in the form of coal exports.

While European markets have traditionally received a significant portion of U.S. coal exports, the share of coal exported to Asian markets is up since 2009 because of growth in sales to South Korea, China, and India.

They give versions of Vice President Gore's slideshow all around the world, and drive change in powerful ways, like stopping the construction of a coal export terminal or addressing the impacts of the crisis on poor rural communities.

economic and appraisal reports in Wyoming typically contained generic boilerplate statements about the possibility of coal exports in the future and the uncertainty surrounding them, rather than specific information on actual or predicted coal exports ---- even for proposed lease tracts that were adjacent to mines on federal leases that are currently exporting coal.

However, the Indonesian government recently decided to link the price of coal exported from the country with a benchmark based on international prices of coal.

In the face of the proposed Cherry Point coal export terminal that would sit on their ancestral lands, members of the Lummi tribe are making a protest journey to unite tribal and nontribal communities whose lives intersect with the paths of coal exports and other fossil fuel mega-projects.

Actual 1st phase of coal exports out of Cherry Point is about 24 million tons, insignificant compared to overall global trade.

SkyTruth intern Yolandita blogged about visualizing local impacts of coal exports to Asia, using all sorts of Google tools, and the finished product [video] was quite an eye - opener for many readers.

Starting September 18, leaders from the Lummi Nation will begin a journey to draw attention to the effects of the coal export proposals and the importance of upholding their treaty rights.

Burnaby's council voted unanimously to oppose expansion of coal exports.

Exports of metallurgical coal — used in steelmaking — accounted for 65 % of coal exports in the fourth quarter of 2011: 18.0 million short tons with an average price of $ 181.41.

Although some of the coal exported to Europe through East Coast and Gulf Coast terminals is publicly owned coal (such as from Arch Coal's West Elk mine in Colorado), the majority is not.