Domestic coal production in Japan saw a precipitous drop over the past 30 years, from an estimated 24 million tons in 1980 to 3.5 million tons in the early 2000s, as the country closed all its coal mines and chose to rely
on coal imports to meet its needs.
Not exact matches
A housing and construction rebound has boosted industries including steel and
coal, and while many sectors continue to struggle with overproduction, domestic demand has held up reasonably well, with trade data
on Thursday showing a surprising improvement in
imports.
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.
«Mongolia should be profiting handsomely from Beijing's ban
on North Korean
coal imports,» he wrote.
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.
Cambrian's mines are also a source for metallurgical
coal, an essential ingredient in steel manufacturing, a sector expected to benefit from President Trump's recent 25 percent tariff
on imported steel.
The Quarterly
Coal Report (QCR) provides detailed quarterly data on U.S. coal production, exports, imports, receipts, prices, consumption, quality, stocks, and refined c
Coal Report (QCR) provides detailed quarterly data
on U.S.
coal production, exports, imports, receipts, prices, consumption, quality, stocks, and refined c
coal production, exports,
imports, receipts, prices, consumption, quality, stocks, and refined
coalcoal.
Beijing has already warned the country may soon hit peak
coal production, forcing greater reliance
on ever - more costly
imports.
Drilling for natural gas has been promoted because it burns more cleanly than
coal and can reduce dependence
on imported energy sources, and it can also bring jobs to economically battered regions of the state.
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Coal fired power stations should be encouraged to be built to reduce our reliance
on gas
imports from dubious sources.
The world's largest consumer of
coal has announced radical restrictions
on the
importing and use of the stuff, in a bid to curb air pollution.
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.
Here's how it might work: Next year and in each year thereafter, Congress would set an overall cap
on fossil fuels extracted by upstream energy producers, which David A. Weisbach of the University of Chicago Law School identifies as «fewer than 3,000 entities» — petroleum refiners,
coal mines and domestic natural gas processors — «plus
imports at a few locations.»
The fuel - flexibility enabled by this new technology will reduce dependency
on imported coal and create cost savings, since cheaper options, including waste
coal, can be used for fuel, VTT says.
China's shift toward alternative fuels in order to cut its reliance
on imported oil is creating large opportunities, notably in natural gas vehicles (NGVs) and in the conversion of
coal to ethanol, according to a new report from Lux Research.
It would mean that DOE has given up
on addressing the challenge of climate change and instead is just focused
on the near term goal of reducing oil
imports and modestly reducing the expansion the
coal fired power plants.
There's much more, including
on - the - ground reporting from the 750 - megawatt Trianel power plant in Luenena, Germany, which only burns
imported coal (Germany is closing down its
coal mines).
The point, again, is that the U.S. can use abundant domestic
coal or repeat the flawed oil model and rely
on global gas
imports.»
This problem is exacerbated as we neglect our own substantial
coal supplies and instead rely
on soaring
imports of foreign natural gas.
China will be relying more and more
on imported coal.
The ad went
on to say that the United States has 250 years» worth of
coal in the ground at current rates of use, and that only
imports of liquefied natural gas, much of it from hostile countries, would be able to supply power if
coal is off limits.
He would have to form alliances abroad, and propose things like carbon taxes
on imports from China and India unless they also freeze
coal plant construction.
He also described the important role China sees for
imports of natural gas as a path to cut its reliance
on coal, its view
on nuclear power and more.
China's net
coal imports reached 39 million tons in the first quarter of 2010, putting the nation
on a pace to exceed 2009's record 104 million tons of net
imports.
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.
But even much higher supplies of wind power would improve security only marginally, because the U.K. would still have to
import just as much oil (wind replaces mostly
coal, rarely oil) and much of its gas, leaving it dependent
on Russia.
Reference prices are assumed to be below observed
import prices in some cases, such as steam
coal in India, which relies heavily
on low - quality domestic
coal but
imports small volumes of higher quality
coal.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Export -
Import Bank (Ex-Im Bank), the U.S. export credit agency, last Thursday posted
on its website that the application to finance the Long Phu 1
coal plant in Vietnam had been withdrawn.
On Dec. 7, 2011, Peabody said it bought a 5.1 percent stake in Winsway, a company that specializes in
importing Mongolian coking
coal into China for use in the steel industry.
The Quarterly
Coal Report (QCR) provides detailed quarterly data on U.S. coal production, exports, imports, receipts, prices, consumption, quality, stocks, and refined c
Coal Report (QCR) provides detailed quarterly data
on U.S.
coal production, exports, imports, receipts, prices, consumption, quality, stocks, and refined c
coal production, exports,
imports, receipts, prices, consumption, quality, stocks, and refined
coalcoal.
Without a scientific consensus
on «Climate Change» blessed by the UN, Peabody
Coal, Saudi Aramco and Gazprom would be able to get the Carbon
Import Tax nullified via the WTO.
Cape Windâ $ ™ s proposal to build Americaâ $ ™ s first offshore wind farm
on Horseshoe Shoal would provide three - quarters of the electricity used
on Cape Cod and the Islands from clean, renewable energy — reducing this regionâ $ ™ s need to
import oil,
coal and gas.
Reduce dependency
on (
imported) fossil fuels (balance of payments, reliance
on potentially unfriendly or unstable nations as suppliers, high cost at the pump, all problems as seen from US viewpoint): — encourage nuclear power generation (cut red tape)-- encourage energy savings and improved efficiency projects (tax breaks)-- encourage basic research into new (non fossil fuel) resources (subsidies)-- encourage
imports from friendly neighbor, Canada (Keystone pipeline)-- encourage local oil and gas exploration («drill, baby, drill»)-- encourage «clean
coal» projects (tax incentives)-- set goal to become energy independent within ten years
We have significantly reduced our forecast for thermal
coal imports to India compared with last year's report in response to government measures to reduce dependence
on imports.
Endowed with vast reserves in the Thar lignite field and facing a severe energy shortage, Pakistan is betting
on domestic and
imported coal for electricity supply in the coming years.
Other mitigation measures include the Rs 400
coal cess (a $ 6.34 USD tax or levy)
on every ton of
coal produced or
imported.
Some see natural gas as a
coal replacement, a transition fuel as we move towards renewables, and a potential way to power much of our transportation — freeing us from our reliance
on imported oil.
To reduce its dependence
on imported coal (
coal - fired plants account for 57 % of India's installed capacity) India is making favorable progress in introducing renewable energy power facilities.
Recently, there have been a spate of articles in the press saying that Europe's increasing
imports of
coal undermines their leadership
on climate and their «green» credentials.
Solar energy is generated and utilized locally, helping to reduce our dependence
on imported energy sources (such as
coal) and contributing to energy independence.
Importing coal to produce electricity is an economic drain
on states that rely heavily
on coal - fired power.
The United States must change the way it produces and uses energy by shifting away from its dependence
on imported oil and
coal - fired electricity and by increasing the efficiency with which energy is extracted, captured, converted, and used if it is to meet the urgent challenges facing the energy system, of which climate change and energy security are the most pressing.
If it closes the plants, it will
import even more electricity — and keep
coal plants
on - line longer, notes Julian Spector of Greentech Media:
In this report, we rank states» dependence
on imported coal in each of six categories, and list the top 10 states
on each measure.
The six measures include net spending
on imported coal, net weight of
imported coal, per capita spending
on imported coal, spending
on coal relative to the size of the state economy, reliance
on net
coal imports relative to total power use, and spending
on international
coal imports.
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The benefits of energy efficiency and renewable energy policies are even greater for states that now rely
on imported coal, because such policies channel funds into local economic development — funds that would otherwise leave the state.
The cost of
importing coal is a major drain
on the economies of many states that rely heavily
on coal - fired power.
Of course, state reliance
on imported coal for producing electricity creates more than economic problems.
Through the U.S. Export -
Import Bank (Ex-Im), Trump is pushing developing countries toward dependence
on coal for decades to come.