Sentences with phrase «oil and coal during»

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The construction - based company diversified during the 1950s, moving into coal production and, later, oil and gas, and railroad equipment manufacturing and servicing.

Canadians in the coal, oil and gas sector have helped build our country, and will need help during a transition so that no person is left behind.

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.

Environmentalists and industry groups alike are speculating on what the president has in store next for oil and coal after a seemingly nebulous statement he made during Tuesday night's State of the Union address.

Studies have suggested that leaks of methane during production from oil and gas wells are so high that the fuel may be no better for the climate than coal.

Keeping in mind the enormous stake that panel members ExxonMobil and Shell have in the oil, natural gas and coal industries, here is a look at the panel's take on why oil and coal have been so difficult to replace by the following alternative energy sources: Natural gas ExxonMobil favors boosting the U.S.'s consumption of natural gas, in part, because it produces at least 50 percent less greenhouse gas per hour when burned compared with coal, Nazeer Bhore, ExxonMobil senior technology advisor, said during the panel.

It's regularly emitted during the production and transport of coal and oil, and sometimes even cows get the blame.

Michaels is currently being scrutinized after he apparently under - reported his financial backing by coal and oil companies during a presentation before Congress.

The top map, produced during the Civil War, shows the «oil district» of West Virginia, and includes locations of oil and gas wells, as well as coal seams.

The 19th century was the century of coal, and oil took the lead during the 20th century.

They compared estimated emissions for shale gas, conventional gas, coal (surface - mined and deep - mined) and diesel oil, taking into account direct emissions of CO2 during combustion, indirect emissions of CO2 necessary to develop and use the energy source and methane emissions, which were converted to equivalent value of CO2 for global warming potential.

Across the nation, the oil and gas industry emits 8 million tons a year, the same climate impact as the annual emissions from 160 coal plants during the next two decades.»

Due to the discovery of North Sea oil and natural gas, the United Kingdom was able to switch massively from coal to gas in power generation, resulting in a 1 percent average annual drop in its greenhouse gas emissions during that decade.

During the Industrial Revolution, the burning of wood and other traditional materials for fuel was replaced by the burning of coal and later oil and natural gas — so - called fossil fuels.

During that time, the coal, oil and gas conglomerate Koch Industries, ExxonMobil, and other companies lavished tens of millions of dollars on a network of think tanks, advocacy groups and academic centers to sow doubt about climate science and attack renewable energy.

Coal was cheap, but during the 1960s, coal prices were rising and oil prices were a bargain, particularly the heavy residual oil at the bottom of the crude oil refining procCoal was cheap, but during the 1960s, coal prices were rising and oil prices were a bargain, particularly the heavy residual oil at the bottom of the crude oil refining proccoal prices were rising and oil prices were a bargain, particularly the heavy residual oil at the bottom of the crude oil refining process.

«The temperature change over the last century, even if it were all due to man, is so much less than the models predict,» said Lindzen, who has received government funding for his research during Republican and Democratic administrations, but hasn't conducted any research for oil or coal companies.

They plan to introduce an energy plan of their own that's heavy on oil, gas, «clean coal,» and nuclear — much like the bill they introduced last summer and touted during an unsuccessful sit - in at the Capitol.

During the mock - tribunal witnesses presented first hand accounts of the destructive effects coal, oil and gas have had and continue to have on communities from around the world.

(5) Whenever, before or during the drilling of a well not within the boundaries of an operating coal mine, the well operator encounters conditions of a nature which renders drilling of the bore hole or a portion thereof impossible, or more hazardous than usual, the well operator, upon verbal notice to the department, may immediately plug all or part of the bore hole, if drilling has occurred, and commence a new bore hole not more than 50 feet from the old bore hole if the location of the new bore hole does not violate section 3215 (relating to well location restrictions) and, in the case of a well subject to act of July 25, 1961 (P.L. 825, No. 359), known as the Oil and Gas Conservation Law, if the new location complies with existing laws, regulations and spacing orders and the new bore hole is at least 330 feet from the nearest lease boundary.

Obama and his strategists clearly decided that in a tight race during fragile economic times, he should compete with Romney by promising to mine more coal and drill more oil.

«During the worst of the storm from January 5 - 6, 2018, actual U.S. electricity market experience demonstrated that without the resilience of coal - and fuel oil / dual - firing plants... the eastern United States would have suffered severe electricity shortages, likely leading to widespread blackouts,» NETL researchers reported.

The report released last week uses deeply flawed assumptions to inaccurately paint coal (and to a lesser extent, fuel oil) as the savior that prevented large - scale blackouts during the extreme cold, while greatly understating the contribution from renewable energy sources.

ISO New England president Gordan van Welie said «coal and oil power plants rarely run most of the year, but they are still needed during extreme weather events.