Sentences with phrase «on coal companies»

Since she declared war on the coal companies, she's been assaulted, harassed and threatened (a few years ago, she was arrested for battery after shoving a six - foot - tall strip miner who pushed her at community meeting).

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Perth company Underground Services is targeting the coal - seam gas sector for further growth on the back of already burgeoning revenue.

The phase - out plans apply only to so - called unabated coal, meaning a company that has the technology to reduce emissions can carry on generating power with coal.

In northeastern England, a battle is raging between grass roots campaigners and a company intent on digging a new open cast mine as world coal prices soar.

Adani Group, controlled by the billionaire Gautam Adani, said it will now plan to finance the vast Carmichael coal project on its own, but the company faces an uphill struggle as both governments and major banks adopt a harder line towards new coal projects, citing the impact of coal - fired power on climate change.

The company owns an open cut mine at Acland on the Darling Downs in Queensland and the Queensland Bulk Handling coal export terminal in Brisbane.

«The future is foreign markets, so the last thing you want to do if you are a coal company is to give up a U.S. seat in the international climate discussions and let the Europeans control the agenda,» said the official, who asked not to be named because he was not authorized to speak publicly on the issue.

The direct impact on listed companies may be limited as trade between China and its isolated northern neighbour has slowed substantially since the United Nations imposed a ban in September on North Korean exports of coal, iron, iron ore, lead, lead ore and seafood.

The U.N. Security Council on Friday blacklisted dozens of ships and shipping companies over oil and coal smuggling...

The reason to take a close look at this company is twofold: it's one of the most diversified miners around, so one commodity's underperformance shouldn't have as significant an impact on the company as it would if it was just a coal or iron ore producer.

The transportation company ships coal and industrial products on its railroad, serving every major port on the East Coast.

UNITED NATIONS, March 30 - A United Nations Security Council committee blacklisted 21 shipping companies, 27 ships and one individual on Friday over illegal North Korean oil and coal smuggling.

NEW YORK, April 1 - FirstEnergy Corp said late on Saturday its nuclear and coal power plant units filed for bankruptcy court protection as the company looks to restructure, sell assets and win government support to cope with competitors using lower - cost natural gas.

Wells Fargo analyst David Maris, who has a market perform rating on the company, said he believes that, from an investor standpoint, the coal transactions adds unnecessary complexity.

This environmental regulation for coal companies has been a GOP target since before the election, and Trump singled it out on his website after he became president - elect.

The United Nations Security Council blacklisted dozens of ships and shipping companies on Friday over oil and coal smuggling by North Korea, boosting pressure on Pyongyang as leader Kim Jong Un plans to meet with his South Korean and U.S. counterparts.

While we're on the question of Ric Stowe and his Griffin Coal Company, bar - room chatter coming out of Collie indicates that life is about to get somewhat tougher in the coalfields and a new round of cost cutting may be on the way — with interesting variat

Jim Cramer checks in with Vistra Energy CEO Curtis Morgan, who says coal is on its way out as his company looks for other renewable energy sources.

Notably absent from the list are oil and coal companies that have built their businesses on fossil fuels.

There was also good news from the company's metallurgical coal division, where production from its Queensland mines rose 2 per cent during the March quarter year - on - year and 7 per cent on the December quarter.

Disclosing the Facts: Transparency and Risk in Methane Emissions focuses on the critical risk of methane emissions and how companies are managing methane reduction, reflecting rising investor concern that excessive methane emissions from oil and gas operations will undercut the potential net climate benefit of substituting natural gas for coal, especially in decarbonizing energy markets.

Mining and mineral development company, Teck Resources focuses on copper, metallurgical coal, zinc, and energy.

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».

And as coal investors have fled in droves to invest in more profitable companies and industries, coal workers have been left with pink slips and mortgages on houses with few buyers in blighted coal country.

What these dry government numbers leave out is the effect on coal workers and their families as coal mines close and one major coal company after another files for bankruptcy.

RESOLVED: That Berkshire Hathaway Inc. («Berkshire») establish reasonable, quantitative goals for reduction of greenhouse gas and other air emissions at its energy - generating holdings; and that Berkshire publish a report to shareholders by January 31, 2015 (at reasonable cost and omitting proprietary information) on how it will achieve these goals — including possible plans to retrofit or retire existing coal - burning plants at Berkshire - held companies.

Buffett shared his sentiments on the coal industry at the 52nd annual shareholders meeting of his Berkshire Hathaway holding company...

Cele notes that, «the demand from China for iron - ore continues to grow, but at a declining pace, further exacerbating pricing pressure,» meaning that Vale's considerable investment in nickel, coal, fertilisers and copper will only partially mitigate the impact of the increase in iron - ore mining capacity globally on the company.

BHP Billiton said on Thursday jobs could go at its Australian coal mines as the company faces a deteriorating market, the latest sign of global miners scaling back operations due to slowing industrial activity in China.

Coal had made me money but companies in the industry had fallen on hard times due to low natural gas prices and environmental regulations.

The Oct. 24 Reuters story said a private Chinese coal company had amassed 35 % of the open interest in copper contracts on the Shanghai Futures Exchange.

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.

That's an impressive gain, to be sure, especially for a miner heavily reliant on coal, but to really understand that advance you have to go back to the middle of June, when the company updated its coal production guidance.

Two coal explorers and one gold explorer transitioned to production during the quarter and one company changed operations to focus on resource recovery.

Members of its corporate citizenship group, which also monitors whether clients engaged in coal mining and oil drilling are adhering to Citigroup's environmental standards, will check in regularly on partners» gun - selling procedures, the company said.

The Alberta - based company's facilities run on a number of different sources, such as natural gas, wind, and coal.

It is that aspect of the law that frightens environmental groups that have fought for years for the coal - mining rule and another rule to restrict energy companies from burning off natural gas during drilling operations on public lands.

Glasgow, Scotland (CNN)- Robert Marshall is the burly, landlord of The Louden Tavern, a pub located in the west end of the Scottish city of Glasgow, on the south bank of the same Clyde River that was once used to ferry coal and steel to the great shipbuilding companies that in the past made this area an industrial powerhouse.

The first seed of the European Economic Community, i.e., the 1954 European Coal and Steel Company, was not sown for economic reasons only, but» and this was very conscious on the mind of its father, another Christian, Jean Monnet» in order to prevent competition about the possession of these basic industrial goods from becoming once again the cause of wars.

Having originally disputed the change on the basis of failings of the consultation required in the 2013 enterprise agreement, the coal union eventually agreed the company was free to alter shifts.

Hydraulic fracturing, or fraccing, for coal seam gas uses a host of chemicals; however this type of mining operation has operated on organic farms where the farmer and company have been able to negotiate suitable arrangements and not compromised the organic integrity of the property.

Kingsnorth Climate Action and Dartford Liberal Democrat campaigner James Willis called the decision «a local victory for people power which has today forced a multinational power company to shelve plans to bring on stream this huge old fashion Coal Dinosaur.»

Pruitt, one of Trump's controversial cabinet picks, has in the past worked to file lawsuits against the agency he is now running on the behalf of coal, oil and gas companies, according to The New York Times.

Southern signed a memorandum of understanding with state - owned Chinese company Shenhua Group earlier this year to collaborate on clean coal technologies, but the one licensing of TRIG on a Chinese facility so far is for the gasification technology only, minus the capture component, according to Southern officials.

Despite its efforts to go green, China still depends on coal, but critics say blaming China for its rampant pollution is unfair, given all the manufacturing the world's developed countries outsource to Chinese companies

The report card grades each bank based on its current position and practice regarding MTR investments, and calls on the banks to strengthen their policies and cease their financial support for coal companies engaging in MTR.

«The «best practice»... is a clear exclusion policy on commercial lending and investment banking services for all coal companies who practice mountaintop removal coal extraction,» says RAN.

M.I.T. professor Ely Sachs gave up his faculty position to go all - in on a company that he believes can make solar energy competitive with coal via smart photovoltaic manufacturing.

According to the Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan, utilities operate 16 power plants that rely either fully or partly on coal - fired boilers.

In one of the memoranda of understanding (MOUs), China's Huaneng Clean Energy Research Institute, a subsidiary of state - owned power company China Huaneng and Washington - based Summit Power Group agreed to share information on clean coal power generation technology.