Sentences with phrase «of coal extraction»

Despite being one of the world's largest markets for renewable energy, Germany has an extensive history of coal extraction.

Pacific Climate Warriors stood in solidarity with German communities who are fighting the frontlines of coal extraction with creative tactics and determination.

Mining and ballads have gone together through the ages, from the early days of coal extraction in Britain and Wales on through another standard I sing in Uncle Wade — Merle Travis's «Dark as a Dungeon» — and forward to Sting's tune «We Work the Black Seam.»

The actions suggest the government is not interested in setting right the environmental and social injustices of coal extraction, which Greenpeace's activists highlighted in Singrauli, said Ramana of Princeton University.

This new visibility is the product of so - called mountaintop removal methods of coal extraction.

To say that the violence of coal extraction is inevitable is to despair of providing a description of the world as heading toward its redemption in Christ.

Not exact matches

I live in BC and have signed petitions against your President's plans to pillage your National Parks for the sake of coal and oil extraction!!

In cases where the resource will probably last for a couple of hundred years, on the other hand (as in Australian coal, for example, at current extraction rates), this logic may be less compelling.

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By: Donald Makhafola 16th March 2018 The best process for extraction of coal depends on the geographical and geotechnical information of the deposit, says Johannesburg - based multidisciplinary engineering consulting company GO Holistic Engineering engineering consultant Kevin Jacobs.

In other cases, the story is more nuanced: For example, oil and gas extraction firms benefit, while the producers of petroleum and coal products lose, echoing the tension between refiners and oil - shale producers.

In addition, the extraction of coal, from West Virginia to Wyoming, devastates the physical environment, and its processing and combustion produce gigantic volumes of waste.

Natural gas produces half the CO2 emissions of coal, but its extraction is harder on the environment.

The study by Miller and her colleagues is believed to be the first head - to - head comparison of coal and shale gas from the resource extraction phase through electricity generation.

CCS turns carbon dioxide into a liquid form of carbon, which oil and coal extraction companies then pump into underground geological formations and wells and cap; millions of tons of carbon are already being stored this way each year.

Another method for reducing methane emissions, whether underground or on tracks of surface mining, lies in degasifying coal seams prior to extraction.

Methane comes naturally from decomposition of plant and animal matter, and from man - made sources including the farming of ruminants such as cattle and sheep, and coal or natural gas extraction.

Although fracking in the U.S. produces more than 100 billion gallons of wastewater per year, the process requires significantly less water per unit of energy than extraction and processing for coal and nuclear power, according to past research by Jackson and his colleagues.

Underground coal and uranium mining, and oil recovery enhancement extraction use between two - and - a-half to 13 times more water per unit of energy produced.

Their discovery could aid secure fracking — in which rocks below ground are split with high - pressure fluids — or extraction of methane gas from deep coal beds.

Paul Epstein, associate director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School, details the economic, health and environmental costs associated with each stage in the life cycle of coal — extraction, transportation, processing, and combustion.

However, the stark reality is that global emissions have accelerated (Fig. 1) and new efforts are underway to massively expand fossil fuel extraction [7]--[9] by drilling to increasing ocean depths and into the Arctic, squeezing oil from tar sands and tar shale, hydro - fracking to expand extraction of natural gas, developing exploitation of methane hydrates, and mining of coal via mountaintop removal and mechanized long - wall mining.

Klein follows the «dark» money behind the propaganda of climate - change denial, the effort to dismantle the federal government to curtail corporate regulation, and the justification for the feverish pursuit of the riskiest forms of carbon - emission - producing energy from tar sands extraction to deep - water drilling, fracking, and mountaintop - removal coal mining.

They should include people in gas country, where federal studies hopefully will soon clarify ways to responsibly expand extraction of a vital fuel (if you care even remotely about moving away from oil or limiting emissions from coal - burning power plants).

The continued extraction of coal, oil and gas following the «business - as - usual mode» will soon create grave existential risks for the poorest three billion, and for generations yet unborn.

This choice would undoubtedly be hailed both by those pushing for development and large - scale testing of nonpolluting energy technologies and by environmental campaigners seeking knowledgeable leadership at the giant agency — which, while it still oversees efforts to boost coal and oil extraction, also has what may be the world's biggest assemblage of scientists pursuing development of renewable power sources.

While all such forecasts are implicitly uncertain, this one helps clarify where to focus efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions; reinforces the importance of resolving questions about how to safely expand, while not stopping, extraction of vast domestic reserves of natural gas; and powerfully challenges proponents of accelerated deployment of today's menu of renewable energy technologies or nuclear power plants to lay out a credible strategy for supplanting coal.

When I am confronted by the threats to the integrity of these aspects of the world, whether through photos of the Tar Sands, or reading about mountain - top removal for coal extraction, or some other sight or story about degradation, I ache in a way that compels me to do something.

Many experts on China caution that most sources of data there should come with fat error bars, given past instances in which official estimates of activities ranging from coal extraction to fish catches proved to be way off.

Judge Jackson's ruling exposes the bogus economic assumptions underlying nearly all of BLM's coal leasing decisions, and it will help hold BLM accountable for the climate impacts of other decisions on coal and fossil fuel extraction.

Meanwhile it deflects responsibility to government or to coal companies, to distract from its own extraction of oil and gas.

Longwall mining involves the full extraction of coal from a section of the seam, or «face» using mechanical shearers.

«[Howarth et al.'s] analysis is seriously flawed in that they significantly overestimate the fugitive emissions associated with unconventional gas extraction, undervalue the contribution of «green technologies» to reducing those emissions to a level approaching that of conventional gas, base their comparison between gas and coal on heat rather than electricity generation (almost the sole use of coal), and assume a time interval over which to compute the relative climate impact of gas compared to coal that does not capture the contrast between the long residence time of CO2 and the short residence time of methane in the atmosphere.»

So do deforestation, coal mining, and the extraction and use of natural gas.

As we noted last week, it's about the politics of «the handful of folks who profit off of the oil, coal and gas extraction industries, and the personal pain theywould like to avoid in cutting into a single cent of the most profitable industry the world has ever known.»

The industry touts the amount of potential energy that can be gained from a fracking well relative to its «small» footprint as a major advantage of the process over conventional gas wells and coal extraction.

The study estimates that at current extraction rates, China has another 50 to 70 years of coal production, while the U.S. and India have 200 years left.

With just a little more scientific and technological effort, the world will see a revolution in the extraction and conversion of coal to useful resource flows!

On behalf of Kentuckians for the Commonwealth — I'm a member of — and for all those thousands of people, folks in the mountains who have lost loved ones due to the carcinogenic heavy metals blown out of the earth and poisoning our waters by this hellish, murderous extraction of coal called mountaintop removal — to represent them, I stand proudly in defiance of Governor Steven Beshear, McConnell, King Coal and all the King's lap puppies in the statehouses of Kentucky and West Virginia and those here in Washington, DC, who put corporate gains over people's licoal called mountaintop removal — to represent them, I stand proudly in defiance of Governor Steven Beshear, McConnell, King Coal and all the King's lap puppies in the statehouses of Kentucky and West Virginia and those here in Washington, DC, who put corporate gains over people's liCoal and all the King's lap puppies in the statehouses of Kentucky and West Virginia and those here in Washington, DC, who put corporate gains over people's lives.

Even if burning coal were pure as the driven snow, the method of extraction remains utterly unacceptable.

Two full decades of anthropogenic climate change being established science and Australia's policy focus is fully on maximum expansion of coal and gas extraction and export with some ineffectual climate «policies» to distract and pacify public concerns.

Gazprom's (OTCQX: GZPFY) reaction to shale gas, until recently, has been to dismiss it as a short lived phenomenon while pushing ahead as hard as possible with the extraction of coal bed methane and going full steam ahead with the game changing vista of Arctic oil and gas, which I will look at in a separate blog.

In response to this extraction and abuse, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth formed to lead Kentucky in a transition away from an economy dominated by coal, anchoring the work of the Our Power Campaign throughout the Bluegrass State.

Thus, the NETL analysis concluded that there was little difference in the total amount of life cycle climate pollution between «U.S. LNG exports for power production in European and Asian markets... when compared to regional coal extraction and consumption for power production.»

We are also facing extreme extraction of fossil fuels, in particular coal mining, hydraulic fracking, and tar sands, as well as tar sands pipelines.

About one - quarter of the total emissions are related to fossil fuel extraction (CH4 emissions from coal mines, CH4 venting from oil extraction), transport and distribution (e.g., leakage from pipelines), and consumption (incomplete combustion).

Why not compare coal extraction and transport, oil extraction and transport, gas extraction and transport and the extraction and transport and processing of all the materials involved in the life cycle of a solar PV cell or a wind farm?

«Between 2010 and 2014, the oil, coal, gas, utility, and natural resource extraction industries spent $ 1.8 bn on lobbying, much of it in defence of these giveaways,» according to Sanders and Ellison.

Germany has got rid of nuclear and is getting back big time to coal extraction and coal powered electricity, for example.

The extraction of coal - seam gas often involves drilling many wells through aquifers with the potential for the contamination or loss of water from those resources;.