Sentences with phrase «on coal exports»

Australia still produces more than 80 % of its electricity from coal, and its economy depends significantly on coal exports, which is a huge problem in a new green economic era.

All of the focus on coal exports comes at a time of flagging trends in U.S. coal consumption.

Here the focus is on coal exports rather than domestic use since the NMBI petition calls for bans on NEW fossil fuel extraction.

This misguided belief can be traced to a major mistake made in the 1980s in energy and trade policy, to stake Australia's competitiveness on coal exports.

The Gillard Government brought in the carbon tax, but that will have no effect on coal exports.

Correct, there will be practically no impact on coal exports from the policy.

Following up on my last comment, at 199 million tons of C02 per year, what would be the impact on the coal export schemes if there were a Carbon price, be it through a cap and trade system or direct tax?

Not exact matches

President Trump is focusing not just on energy independence, but what he calls «energy dominance,» vowing to «unleash» American natural gas and coal exports on the world.

The response shows that tensions are showing no signs of abating after the UN Security Council on Saturday unanimously approved measures to restrict North Korea's exports of coal, iron, lead and seafood.

In September, Banks announced it was exporting coal to Spain and it has begun canvassing opinion on a project to extract 800,000 tons of coal at Dewley Hill near Newcastle.

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.

Trump will then fly to Beijing where, according to senior administration officials, he will try to convince a reluctant President Xi Jinping to squeeze North Korea further with steps such as limits on oil exports, coal imports and financial transactions.

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.

Price difference makes profitable to export cheaper hydro power from the Nordic market to Germany, which relies more on coal and gas to generate power.

The U.N. Security Council has unanimously boosted sanctions on North Korea since 2006 in a bid to choke off funding for Pyongyang's nuclear and ballistic missile programs, banning exports including coal, iron, lead, textiles and seafood, and capping imports of crude oil and refined petroleum products.

Researcher Clark Williams - Derry said it is difficult to underestimate the impact a ban on thermal coal exports would have for the coal industry in the western U.S.

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If Carney is right, this will add to pressure on the Canadian dollar by slashing oil, gas and coal exports even further.

Just as Nebraska doesn't want the Keystone XL pipeline running through its backyard, coastal states such as Washington and Oregon don't want to see an endless string of coal trains hauling millions of tons of coal to export terminals on the Pacific.

Less well known are its efforts to sell mining leases on federally owned land to promote coal exports abroad.

On the very day of the televised leaders debate for the 2017 BC Election, Premier Christy Clark has suddenly found a reason to ask Prime Minister Trudeau to ban thermal coal exports from BC ports.

The Canadian Press has learned that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will notify B.C. Premier Christy Clark that he is seriously considering her request for a ban or a tax on thermal coal exports, and that it's being explored by federal trade officials.

Beyond the reasonably favourable outlook for the next few years, growth in productive capacity and exports in the resources sector over the longer term will depend on future mineral discoveries (though existing reserves could support production and exports of some commodities, such as coal, for a considerable time).

It seems that US coal employment (what remains of it) is now, like US coal production, dependent on exports, as domestic demand inexorably crumbles beneath it.

The idea was to move more aggressively into Appalachian coal, banking on exports to compensate for the collapsing US coal market.

North Korea also ran a near - record trade deficit of $ 1.96 billion with China in 2017, the NIS reportedly informed the National Assembly on Monday, owing to United Nations Security Council sanctions banning exports of goods including coal, marine products and garments.

Native Americans have played the crucial role in this campaign to «keep it in the ground,» just as they were leaders in the successful struggle to block the Keystone XL Pipeline, the proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline that would have carried dirty crude across Canada to the Pacific, and the building of a massive coal export port on Canada's Pacific coast.

It might be possible to impose an export fee on exported coal.

«The CO2 emissions related to China's exports are large not just because they export a lot of stuff or because they specialize in energy - demanding industries, but because their manufacturing technologies are less advanced and they rely primarily on coal for energy,» said co-author Klaus Hubacek, a University of Maryland professor of geographical sciences.

He asserts, however, that coal is wrong for America and suggests exporting any new coal technologies to emerging countries like China and India, both of which depend heavily on coal - derived energy.

From a proposed border tariff that could affect energy imports and exports, to recent approvals for new oil pipelines and an early rollback of regulations on coal production, the Trump administration is likely to usher in significant changes in energy policy.

«On top of all that, U.S. coal exports fell 23 percent in 2015, the third consecutive year of declines,» Feaster said.

Fossil - fuel exports of all stripes — Coal exports have been trending into record - high territory for the past few years, the Obama administration is decidedly bullish on exporting natural gas, and exports of refined petroleum products continue to be among the leaders across the board.

Updated below, 12:51 p.m. A comprehensive and sobering Associated Press story by Dina Cappiello provides a valuable update on how United States policies promoting exports of coal are undercutting domestic efforts to restrict emissions of carbon dioxide, the heat - trapping gas released when fossil fuels are burned.

Whatever you think of the claims about coal exports and coal - related jobs (several critics of Mr. McCain pounced on that statement), it does seem quite a stark turnabout for the candidate.

If the USA had taken Hansen's advice back in the late 1980's and gone on a crash program of building next generation nukes there was probably a chance we could be exporting that technology now to China and India and it might have prevented the commissioning of many of the new coal power plants they are building.

Over and over, in considering the press about Australia» «pioneering» carbon law, i keep circling back to those unaffected coal exports (which I've written on before).

So Australia should indeed focus on its domestic emissions with its cap and trade law, and coal exports should not be considered as part of this.

Below you can read some of the input I received on Australia's booming exports of coal (and carbon dioxide emissions) and how they relate to the challenge of stabilizing the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere some time this century.

In reading a fresh assessment by Eric de Place of planned American coal exports to China (noted via Climateprogress), I was reminded of a batch of reporting I did recently on Australia's new carbon plan in light of its vast coal exports (300 million tons a year now, nearly all to Asia) and plans for substantial growth (5 percent a year through 2020).

* The government insists that dealing with global warming is way down the priority list and since our economy is booming because of mineral exports (including heaps of coal don't you know) we should concentrate on that and not get too worried about the water situation.

While campaigners have focused on stopping coal export projects in the Pacific Northwest targeting Chinese demand, there's a boom in American coal exports to Europe (hey, wasn't Europe a leading supporter of the Kyoto Protocol?).

[UPDATE 7/1: Upon consultation with editors here at The Times, we've pulled the photograph of a cliff of coal that was provided by Peabody Energy to accompany a Times business - section story in March on rising coal exports and which I used to illustrate this post on Peabody's response to criticisms of coal companies by James Hansen of NASA.

The «climate pragmatists,» such as Victor, Stern, and myself, argue that the point of Australian climate policy is not to solve the global climate problem, or to solve the problem of emissions from international trade, but rather to achieve politically feasible forward progress on domestic climate policy that can help set the foundation for future global policy (which as you and Victor have pointed out is the only way to deal with leakage, including coal exports).

Today, a fact finding team of five non-governmental organizations (NGOs)-- the Sierra Club, 350.org, Carbon Market Watch, Friends of the Earth U.S. and Pacific Environment — released a scathing report, The U.S. Export - Import Bank's Dirty Dollars, on the rampant human rights abuses at the U.S. Export - Import Bank (Ex-Im) financed Sasan coal - fired power plant and mine in Singrauli, India.

Currently, U.S. exports to Asia are somewhat constrained because there is little port capacity for big coal ships on the U.S. West Coast, and because metallurgical coal, the high - heat content rock that is used for steelmaking, is mined exclusively on the U.S. East Coast.

This round of public comment on the Shoreline Substantial Development and Conditional Use Permit for Millennium's proposed coal export terminal in Longview is our final chance to tell decision - makers that religious communities want sustainable and healthy growth for our state — not polluting and dangerous fossil fuel projects.

For years, people of faith around Washington and across the country have spoken out against the proposal to construct the nation's largest coal export terminal in Longview, Washington on the Columbia River.

Because German law requires renewable energy to be used first on the German grid, when Germany exports excess electricity to its European neighbors it primarily comes from coal plants... «If you want to use fluctuating renewable power, you have to upgrade the grids across Europe,» says Daniel Genz, a policy adviser with Vattenfall.

Earth Ministry provides numerous opportunities in the state legislature and Congress for our members to put their faith into action on issues such as climate change, toxics and children's health, coal export, and public lands, among many others.