Sentences with phrase «over coal as»

However, the report also warned that while natural gas has carbon advantages over coal as a fuel source, the potential for leakages of methane may erode this benefit, as methane is a more potent greenhouse gas.

Completely distraught at the price I thought I would have to pay it because I thought another toyota dealership would rake me over the coals as well so what would be the point to take it to another one?

Not exact matches

When Premier Rachel Notley announced Alberta's new climate change strategy over the weekend, analysts and pundits rushed to gauge the impact on the oilsands and on the electrical generation business, still dependent as it is on coal.

Peabody Energy, the nation's biggest coal producer, has been on a gradual slide down the Fortune 500 over the past few years, as falling demand for coal hit it hard.

Strike Energy's share price has been on a white knuckle ride over the last few weeks as investors desperately try to work out if it is going to be the next large cap gas producer in Australia, or fail whilst daring to create a new technical frontier in the search for coal seam gas riches.

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.

Those price differences have widened in recent months due to supply disruptions that pushed the price of steelmaking coal up over $ 300 per ton even as thermal coal prices where Alliance produces have remained around $ 50 per ton.

Moreover, coal purchases by the Netherlands and India, the first and second largest buyers of U.S. coal respectively, are down on a year over year basis as well.

We know that fast - growing countries such as China are planning to transition from coal to natural gas over the next four to five years, and we need to position ourselves to capitalize on these long - term opportunities.»

Admittedly we are a net importer of oil (increasingly so as Bass Strait reserves diminish), but Australian entities make large exports of natural gas and thermal coal, whose prices are highly correlated with oil prices over time.

As of October 26, 2017, the coal price series has been revised over history to reflect the most up - to - date data from Natural Resources Canada.

A key element in this shift is China; the value of Chinese exports to Canada tripled over this period and Canadian exports to China, while still small relative to exports to the US, have grown steadily in value driven by commodity exports which have been buoyed by high prices and huge demand in China for key Canadian exports such as minerals (nickel, coking coal, potash, copper and iron ore), pulp and lumber.

The miner is withdrawing from the World Coal Association over a clash of views on how to fight climate change, with BHP saying it'll reap little benefit from staying on as a member.

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).

The largest components — metal ores & minerals (such as iron ore and alumina) and coal, coke & briquettes (including coking and thermal coal)-- have continued to increase over the past four years at similar rates to those seen during the 1990s.

To put this all in perspective: «Solar employs slightly more workers than natural gas, over twice as many as coal, over three times that of wind energy, and almost five times the number employed in nuclear energy,» the report notes.

Over the next 25 years, it will provide the same power as burning one million tons of coal.

western involvement over oil in the middle east goes back at least to Churchill's decision in 1913 (as First Lord of the Admiralty) to modernize the Royal Navy by converting ships from coal to oil burners.

Position grid with handles over coals so briquets may be added during grilling as needed.

Moses and Paul Obeid have filed an application (NSD490 / 2014) in the Federal Court challenging s 155 notices issued to them by the ACCC as part of the ACCC's investigation into alleged cartel conduct relating to the 2009 tender process for an exploration mining licence over the Mount Penny coal tenement in the Bylong Valley.

The outlook is less clear for railroad companies exposed to commodities such as coal and iron ore, as falling prices raise questions over haulage volumes.

Standing over the glowing coals of my PK grill with a whiskey soda in one hand and tongs in the other as I watch lobster buoys bob in the Penobscot Bay — that's my idea of summer nirvana.

This has not happened, and I'm surprised that no one has ever hauled Wenger over the coals about the fact that as a qualified economist he never saw that the FIFA FFP rules would NEVER EVER bite the big spending clubs, yet this was the major reason we were never involved in big money transfers, although we were paying the highest process of any club in Europe for season tickets.

The most recent edition of The Sauerbrun Report, which has 40 subscribers who each pay an annual $ 10 fee, offers a kick - by - kick account of Sauerbrun's preseason, a story about the friction between Sauerbrun and since - released placekicker Kevin Butler — whom Thompson refers to as Butthead — and a glossary of terms such as Sauerboot (a typical Sauerbrun punt), Sauerpooch (a kick from inside the 50) and Sauerbrat (a bratwurst cooked over coals in the parking lot north of Soldier Field).

By now, 500 mountains have been blown up and over 2,000 miles of streams have been buried as a result of mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining.

The miners strike of 1984 — 85 over coal mine closures, which divided the NUM as well as the Labour Party, and the Wapping dispute led to clashes with the left of the party, and negative coverage in most of the press.

The Coal industry is a major employer in West Virginia, as well as neighboring Kentucky, where Democratic Senate nominee Alison Lundergan Grimes, a fellow secretary of state, is also knocking the White House over its stance on cCoal industry is a major employer in West Virginia, as well as neighboring Kentucky, where Democratic Senate nominee Alison Lundergan Grimes, a fellow secretary of state, is also knocking the White House over its stance on coalcoal.

Hart said a key question next week would be how the program would seek to avoid advantaging provinces with substantial renewable energy resources over those that are more dependent on coal - fired power, like Liaoning in northeastern China, which is known as the country's Rust Belt.

The coal boom of the early century is turning to bust as China burns less and renewables slowly take over new investment.

This figure has halved over the last decade, as the industry has improved its manufacturing processes, and it is only a fraction of that emitted by coal, at over 300g / kWh.

To get as many renewables as possible operating on the grid, these renewables are much different again in characteristic than the current generation mix in that we have primarily base - load plants that are operating over long periods of time that don't vary much, like a coal plant, for example.

In terms of infrastructure, such big solar fits as comfortably as a coal - fired power plant in the traditional electricity business model, which involves large plants transmitting electricity over a grid of conducting lines through transformers and into individual homes and businesses.

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.

The new study finds that as much as 37 % of global investment in coal power plants over the next 40 years could be stranded if action is delayed, with China and India bearing most of these costs.

But it does support natural gas as a «bridge technology» to replace coal until renewables take over or CCS becomes widespread.

If production continues as planned, over the next couple of decades natural gas could supplant coal as the leading domestic fossil fuel, serving as a cleaner way to heat our homes and fire our electric plants.

And over the last few decades, water quality has improved as some of the least environmentally friendly activities — such as sulfuric acid production, salt evaporation and coal - fired power production — have ended.

As Montana's only representative in the House, Zinke has also been a strong supporter of Montana coal and has expressed concern over a three - year leasing moratorium and programmatic review of the federal coal program undertaken this year by Interior.

The jist of this is that we must NOT suddenly switch off carbon / sulphur producing industries over the planet but instead we must first dramatically reduce CO2 emissions from every conceivable source, then gradually tackle coal / fossil fuel sources to smoothly remove the soot from the air to prevent a sudden leap in average global temps which if it is indeed 2.75 C as the UNEP predicts will permanently destroy the climates ability to regulate itself and lead to catastrophic changes on the land and sea.

By comparison, scenarios for fossil fuel emissions for the 21st century range from about 600 billion tons (if we can keep total global emissions at current levels) to over 2500 billion tons if the world increases its reliance on combustion of coal as economic growth and population increase dramatically.

4) Willie Soon states «I don't like to claim that I am an expert on anything,» despite listing himself as an «expert in mercury and public health» for a discredited Wall Street Journal op - ed dismissing health concerns over mercury pollution from coal plants.

It will only be challenged by nuclear in specific circumstances, and coal has significant advantages over nuclear, as well as alternatives such as hydro and renewables.

Since West Virginia coal production accounts for over 40 % of Central Appalachian coal production, it stands as a good indicator of the status of Central Appalachian coal as a whole.

When trees in vast forests died during a time called the Carboniferous and the Permian, the carbon dioxide (CO2) they took up from the atmosphere while growing got buried; the plants» debris over time formed most of the coal that today is used as fossil fuel.

Another booming area of the guggul gum industry is as an incense; local Indians believe that burning the raw gum over coal to create a thick dense smoke can drive evil spirits away from the household and remove the «evil eye» from nearby humans.

Over the centuries, Sunderland grew as a port, trading coal and salt.

It's lorded over by Stephen (an almost unrecognisable Samuel L. Jackson), an ageing house slave who might look like Uncle Ben off of the rice box, but who has a heart as black as coal, in particular when it comes to strangers in his midst.

As has long been noted, our feathered friends often provide «canary in a coal mine» early warnings as to the impacts and perils of environmental changes — and the dramatic shifts in their populations and behaviors over recent decades is ominous indeeAs has long been noted, our feathered friends often provide «canary in a coal mine» early warnings as to the impacts and perils of environmental changes — and the dramatic shifts in their populations and behaviors over recent decades is ominous indeeas to the impacts and perils of environmental changes — and the dramatic shifts in their populations and behaviors over recent decades is ominous indeed.

Novotny is terrific as the wife and mother struggling to hold her family together as her husband is hauled over the coals, and Lindholm's juxtaposition of images of prone children, worlds apart, is both acute and alarming.

Leigh clearly relishes her character's villainy, almost as much as the film takes pleasure in raking her over the coals, subjecting her to constant verbal abuse, beatings, and much worse (I'll steer clear of specifics to avoid spoiling the film's incredibly demented conclusion).