Sentences with phrase «on coal plant construction»

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For many Africans and Africa observers, the massive Medupi and Kusile coal plants being built by South Africa's Eskom at a cost of more than $ 20 billion, or the 6,000 - MW Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam under construction on the Blue Nile River for an estimated $ 4 billion, are hallmarks of the continent's progress toward electrification.

Al Gore called for a ban on the construction of new coal - fired power plants, a post-Bali session to review its results, and a high - level meeting every three months afterward «until a treaty is successfully arrived at» by 2010, at the latest, the former U.S. vice president said.

He also questioned the need for performance standards on industry in the draft bill, saying that provision would halt construction of any new coal plants beyond 2015.

In Gujarat, on the west coast, fish catches plummeted after the construction of a massive 4,800 - megawatt coal plant destroyed mangrove and creek ecosystems by discharging polluted water in the sensitive ecosystem.

She also has held senior project managerial positions on an oil refinery project in Thailand, a coal seam gas to liquid natural gas plant in Queensland, Australia, and roles in construction field engineering on a variety of nuclear power projects.

In my view, if the coal industry does not proactively agree to, and indeed volunteer for, a prompt moratorium on the construction of new coal - fired power plants until carbon capture and storage are proven and viable, and included in commercial plants, we should get out the literature, the musical lyrics, the poetry, the ethical codes, and so forth and create a collection of material that brings to vivid life the «problems» (to put it mildly) that Shakespeare illuminates, as they will then apply to the coal industry.

Until technology is ready, there should be a moratorium on construction of new coal - fired power plants in developed countries.

Now, many people opposing greenhouse - gas restrictions are on the warpath over your reference to death trains and crematoria in your argument for freezing coal - plant construction to avoid dangerous human - driven warming.

Realization that all coal - fired power plants without actual carbon capture will have to be «bull - dozed» in the next several decades, in all countries, should serve as an effective brake on new construction of coal - fired power plants during the next few years in all countries.

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.

In addition, the spoof release called for an immediate moratorium on the construction of all new coal - fired power plants.

They also supposedly called for an immediate freeze on new construction of coal - burning power plants.

In October 2017, for instance, China moved to stop or delay work on over 150 planned and under - construction coal plants.)

With construction almost complete in Mississippi on the first U.S. carbon capture coal plant, the Obama administration said «clean coal» technology is viable and should be standard.

While there are still new coal plants planned or under construction — mostly in Poland, the Western Balkans, and Turkey — with Europe as a whole on a clear path beyond coal, these projects face an uphill battle.

Moles whacked About a month ago Eli reported on attempts to force construction of coal powered electrical generating plants in Kansas.

EPA officials, the emails showed, helped those groups gather petition signatures in support of regulations that critics say impose huge costs on coal - fired power plants and amount to a de facto moratorium on the construction of such plants.

From 2016 to 2017, newly completed coal plants dropped by 41 per cent while construction of new plants dropped by 73 per cent worldwide, according to a report by Greenpeace, the Sierra Club and CoalSwarm, released on Thursday.

There should be a moratorium on construction of old technology coal - fired power plants.

On Monday, China announced that it was halting or delaying another 150 gigawatts worth of new coal power plant construction through 2020.

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Construction Underway on New Unit at Serbian Coal Plant.

And plans for the next two Five Year Plans show us that the Indian government is planning a major expansion of power generation through the construction of coal power plants which will make the country the third worst climate polluter on Earth.

Democrats and Republicans had, in the course of a few short months, effectively switched policy positions on energy, with Democrats voting to hand trillions in new subsidies to coal - burning utilities and power plants while gutting Clean Air Act restrictions on the construction of coal - fired power plants, and Republicans, long - standing coal boosters, voting against a pro-coal bill.

Ignoring global warming issues, TXU Corp, open - pit coal mine and electric utility company, is embarking on the nation's single largest coal - oriented electric power plant construction campaign.

These conclusions are based on existing and «under construction» thermal coal power plants, yet even if no additional power plants are constructed, the budget would still not be met.

With Australia facing a policy crisis over energy security and the winding back of reliance on coal, construction of new coal - fired power plants was increasing in at least 35 countries, according to data analysis supplied to the Nationals by the federal parliamentary library.

Faced with concerns over how quickly new nuclear will progress through the planning and licensing system, and the possibility that even coal plants that are compliant with existing EU environmental regulation may be forced to close early by the proposed Industrial Emissions Directive, generators have little choice but to prepare to build a second wave of gas - fired plants (ie in addition to the 8GW currently under construction) to keep the lights on before new nuclear and some CCS coal plants start to come onto the system in the 2020s.

(3) Other cases are described on my Columbia University web site, e.g., Switzerland finances construction of coal plants, Sweden builds them, and Australia exports coal and sets atmospheric carbon dioxide goals so large as to guarantee destruction of much of the life on the planet.

Victories were seen on four continents: in Bolivia a draconian response to protestors embarrassed the government, causing them to drop plans to build a road through Tipnis, an indigenous Amazonian reserve; in Myanmar, a nation not known for bowing to public demands, large protests pushed the government to cancel a massive Chinese hydroelectric project; in Borneo a three - year struggle to stop the construction of a coal plant on the coast of the Coral Triangle ended in victory for activists; in Britain plans to privatize forests created such a public outcry that the government not only pulled back but also apologized; and in the U.S. civil disobedience and massive marches pressured the Obama Administration to delay a decision on the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, which would bring tar sands from Canada to a global market.

Progress Energy, an energy company serving approximately 3.1 million customers in the Southeast, announces a two - year moratorium on the construction of new coal - fired power plants.

The chart shows needed & unneeded coal capacity (GW) in 2020 based on existing plants as of 2016 and under construction under different coal plant capacity factors and power generation growth rates.

that in 2010, «Construction did not begin on a single new coal - fired power plant in the United States for the second straight year,» with plans for 38 new plants dropped and even more older plants scheduled for retirement.

The only employment they are allowed would be as day laborers on third world construction projects building coal and natural gas electrical generation plants and electrical distribution grids.

Agrium Corp. says a combination of rising construction costs and a worsening U.S. economy has convinced the company not to proceed with the Kenai Blue Sky Project, a coal gasification facility and adjacent electrical generating plant that the company had planned to build at its fertilizer plant on the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska.

Coal magnate John Rich admits that because of ballooning costs and lack of government support, he has given up on setting a timeline for the construction of the Gilberton Coal - to - Clean - Fuels and Power Project, the nation's first coal - to - oil plant, in Gilberton, PennsylvaCoal magnate John Rich admits that because of ballooning costs and lack of government support, he has given up on setting a timeline for the construction of the Gilberton Coal - to - Clean - Fuels and Power Project, the nation's first coal - to - oil plant, in Gilberton, PennsylvaCoal - to - Clean - Fuels and Power Project, the nation's first coal - to - oil plant, in Gilberton, Pennsylvacoal - to - oil plant, in Gilberton, Pennsylvania.

The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) forthcoming climate change regulations for new and existing electricity generating units have been appropriately labeled the «war on coal,» [1] because the proposed limits for carbon dioxide emissions would essentially prohibit the construction of new coal - fired power plants and force existing ones into early retirement.

An interview published in the latest issue of the journal Naturehttp: / / www.nonewcoal.org.uk / shows why Hansen has become such an admired figure among the scientific and activist community.Hansen was in London this week to testify on behalf of «Stop Kingsnorth,» an initiative aimed at blocking the construction of new coal plants in the UK (the first of which would be built in Kingsnorth).

Limit construction of new coal - fired power plants to those that capture and store carbon emissions, create incentives for carbon capture technology on new and existing plants, and phase out existing coal - based power plants that do not capture and store carbon by 2030.

Having said that, I think we should go beyond market mechanisms, and institute an immediate, outright ban on the construction of any new coal - fired power plants and any new coal mines, and also announce a deadline within no more than ten years at which time the burning of coal to generate electricity will be illegal and all coal - fired power plants, and coal mines, will be shut down.

Murray blamed the plan for the closure of 411 coal - fired power plants and a freeze on new construction.

People with dangerous occupations are considered a greater risk to insure and don't receive an insurance plan easily and people working on sea - shore, coal - mines, chemical plants and construction sites are a few among that category.