Sentences with phrase «of more coal»

Germany's nuclear phase - out strikes either joy or fear into the hearts of environmentalists — joy over the end of nuclear power in a major industrial nation, or fear over the undeniable prospect of more coal - fired plants in central Europe.

While testifying in front of the Iowa Utilities Board, Hansen said, «If we can not stop the building of more coal - fired power plants, those coal trains will be death trains — no less gruesome than if they were boxcars headed to crematoria, loaded with uncountable irreplaceable species.»

You may also have learned about the connection between the decline of the shark population and the burning and dredging of more coal near their sensitive habitats.

Here's a portion that's highly relevant, in which Hande explains that urgent calls now to fix the grid or speed the building of more coal - burning power plants are unlikely to ameliorate the energy challenges confronting hundreds of millions of citizens there:

That is we have to end all mining of any more coal, all pumping of any more oil, and all fracking (or otherwise extracting) of any more NG, and we have to stop all this massive UN-sequestration of otherwise - safely - buried carbon as quickly as possible if not much, much sooner.

«If we can not stop the building of more coal - fired power plants, those coal trains will be death trains — no less gruesome than if they were boxcars headed to crematoria, loaded with uncountable irreplaceable species.»

The reason: it requires extra energy to turn the coal to gas and then to capture the CO2 as well — in effect requiring the burning of more coal to generate the same amount of electricity.

Not exact matches

This is, in a nutshell, McConnell's case for reelection: that as Kentucky's heavyweight in Washington, he'll thwart the assault liberals are waging not just on the health care system and the coal industry but, more broadly, on the state's way of life.

Canada's exports to China — and more broadly, Asia — have long been concentrated in commodities such as coal, metals, agricultural, and forestry products, with very few exports of consumer and commercial goods and services.

Businesses large and small have been making the case that they can't afford paying more for labour going back to when laws were first proposed to curb the use of seven year - olds in coal mines or put an end to 16 - hour workdays.

This will help to save more than one million tons of CO2 when compared with a «conventional» coal fired plant.

The fossil fuel divestment campaign began on university campuses in 2011 but the new report reveals that concerns over investments in coal, oil and gas have now entered the financial mainstream, with more than 80 % of the funds now committed to divest being managed by commercial investment and pension funds.

Some mining stocks have risen even more, spurred by U.S. President - elect Donald Trump's pledges to revive coal and pull out of the Paris Agreement on climate change.

China itself is suppressing its appetite for coal, albeit more for reasons of pollution than climate change.

Deripaska's En + Group PLC, which owns part of Rusal and supplies power and coal, has also seen its London - listed shares more than halve in value.

Natural gas would increase from 38 percent of the capacity mix in 2017 to as much as 59 percent, while coal would shrink from 21 percent to no more than 15 percent.

Cold weather drove up the price of natural gas — making coal look like a more attractive fuel option.

In the past, coal powered much more of Dominion's generation.

More important, climate activists argue, the export of surplus coal negates America's own reductions in greenhouse - gas emissions, simply pushing the problem offshore.

While Peabody was only down about 10 % at the end of May 2014, the stock got crushed as the government proposed to reduce carbon emissions (stemming from fossil fuels like coal), which would burn up even more of Peabody's bottom line.

In addition to tax changes (more on that below), Trump's plan to grow the economy focuses largely on generating more jobs in the fossil fuel economy (in coal and onshore and offshore drilling for oil and gas) and as a result of new infrastructure projects.

Requiring the reduction of carbon emissions will make coal - based energy more costly, while solar and wind technology are expected to be priced more competitively, thereby supporting those alternative energy industries, says Jason Blumberg, chief executive and managing director of Energy Foundry, a Chicago - based cleantech impact venture capital fund.

The temporary foreign worker program was first under fire in the fall of 2012, when it came to light that approval was granted to Chinese - owned HD Mining International to bring more than 200 people from China to work at its coal mine near Tumbler Ridge, B.C.

And it could mean a future viable source of energy that emits no pollution or radioactivity, burns no fossil fuels, and could be no more expensive to run than conventional coal or electric power plants.

«On rooftops from Arizona to New York, solar is saving Americans tens of millions of dollars a year on their energy bills, and employs more Americans than coal — in jobs that pay better than average.»

Hardest hit has been eastern Kentucky, which has endured the highs and lows of the coal marketplace for more than 100 years.

Literally the fuel of America's Industrial Revolution and growth, coal has fallen from providing more than half of the nation's electricity as recently as 2000 to 30 percent in 2017.

The legislation provided financial support for four more months of healthcare benefits for coal miners, through April, but Manchin and other Senate Democrats wanted at least a year.

Progress in a few areas has been solid: slashing of bureaucratic red tape has led to a surge in new private businesses; full liberalization of interest rates seems likely following the introduction of bank deposit insurance in May; Rmb 2 trillion (US$ 325 billion) of local government debt is being sensibly restructured into long - term bonds; tighter environmental regulation and more stringent resource taxes have contributed to a surprising two - year decline in China's consumption of coal.

The European Commission is unlikely to show interest, as it has experimented in the past with largely unsuccessful subsidization of CCS and now sees support for coal as contrary to trends in its larger, more influential member states.

Here's what that could entail: calling off talks to buy more B.C. hydro supply to offset the shuttering of Alberta's coal plants.

A slowdown in the growth of China's coal demand, due to more tepid economic growth and fuel substitution, has sent the prices that Australia fetches for its thermal coal plunging from US$ 125 a tonne in early 2012 to around US$ 70 a tonne.

Contrast that with Alliance Resources Partners, which sold nearly 9 million more tons of coal than Teck on an equivalent basis last year, but only pulled in $ 1.9 billion in revenue and generated $ 692.7 million of adjusted EBITDA.

Solar pv has dropped 70 % in cost in the last 6 years and has become competitive with coal (which is dropping in price as commodity) making it more and more expensive to get out of the ground.

In a region where more than a 1,000 workers were recently laid - off from the coal mines, projects like this offer a much - needed economic boost that helps diversify the local economy and buffer, as the mayor of Tumbler Ridge said, the «devastating shocks» from the regular boom - bust cycle of the traditional resource sectors.

Promises to bring back coal as a viable part of the U.S. energy policy have sent coal stocks soaring, and if government policy succeeds in driving more domestic manufacturing and production, then coal producers like Natural Resource Partners could see demand keep climbing.

The coal regs come with benefits too, which federal officials estimate will more than offset the costs by a margin of $ 7 billion.

«We see a Chinese economy gradually shifting from construction to consumption, and so, we will transition,» said Mackenzie adding that «We imagine we will continue to creep our exports of steelmaking materials like metallurgical coal and iron ore, but we're much more likely to make major investments in what we feel are the next phase of China's growth in energy and in food.»

Nationally, China will have closed more than 2,000 small coal mines from 2013 to the end of 2015.

Since China and the United States together constitute more than half of global coal production, a peak of coal use in these nations can be sufficient to ensure that the peak in coal use is now behind us.

But he said moving to meet climate targets is becoming more affordable because while policy is still important the energy market is transforming so fast that «market forces have taken over», market forces around wind and solar power and batteries «are just accelerating regardless of what anyone else does» and decisions by companies like AGL Energy to close their Liddell coal power station «are being made on economic grounds».

Just over a decade ago, coal - fired power generated more than 50 % of U.S. electricity.

The major reason for this is the strong profitability of the industry — the price of both the ingredients (iron ore, coal, freight, fluxes etc.) and the finished steel has decreased, but the costs of producing a ton of steel fell more, so the profit margins have actually improved.

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

Therefore greater efforts are needed by government and industry to embrace less polluting and more efficient technologies to ensure that coal becomes a much cleaner source of energy in the decades to come.

Solar power might be an undeniable part of our future — the industry created double the amount of jobs as coal did last year and accounts for nearly 40 % of new electric capacity added to the grid, more than wind or even natural gas — but SolarCity itself isn't.

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

Plus, more EPA mandates have driven the cost of mining and using coal much higher.

Think of it another way, in the last 7 year cycle FCA had an average FCF of $ 36 million a year, and now FCA is expanding into different rail cars types and the refurbishment / rebuilt market, more gigawatts of coal fired power plant capacity will begin construction in 09 then was build in the last 7 years and FCA has $ 162 million in cash from the 05 IPO.

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