Sentences with phrase «over coal exports»

You can get inspiration from today's New York Times article about I - 732 (and the fight over coal export terminals).

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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).

[20] In its projections published in July 2012, the Bureau of Resources and Energy Economics anticipated strong growth in iron ore and coal exports over the next half decade, of around 9 — 10 per cent per year (Figure 19).

The result was a 70 percent jump in US coal exports over 2016:

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Some environmental groups are worried over the rise in coal exports from multiple countries (including the United States and Australia) to China, which burns half of the six billion tons the world burns annually.

Over the next couple of decades, some see coal use doubling in the developing world, with the United States exporting it to India and China.

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A further issue of nuance is that over half of Australia's coal exports is for steelmaking (coking coal) where substitution options are limited, as opposed to steaming coal for power generation.

The U.S. government forecasters at EIA expect that U.S. coal exports will fall back to about 110 million tons per year over the next two years, due to economic weakness in Europe, falling international prices, and competition from other coal - exporting countries.

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) released data this week showing that United States coal exports hit a record 126 million short tons in 2012, a 17 percent increase over the previous year.

Now, he will take office as one of the most controversial battles over the nation's energy and environmental future is raging in his backyard — whether to make the Pacific Northwest a hub for exporting coal to Asia.

Finally, over 95 percent of their production of petcoke — a dirty coal substitute that is a byproduct of refining heavy oil [3]-- is exported.

My organisation, Queensland Conservation Council, raised the alarm last week on the fact that the QLD Government has just released an infrastructure plan to service a projected 80 % INCREASE in coal exports over the next 20 years.

Weiss said that, while natural gas burns cleaner, the NETL study concluded that the end - to - end emissions involved in moving U.S. natural gas to an LNG export facility, then liquefying it, then shipping it across the ocean, then de-liquefying it, and shipping it to users in other countries, would be as energy and emissions intensive, or more, than using regionally produced coal — i.e., because of the LNG export supply chain, it has no advantage over coal.

Although China is among the largest producers of solar photovoltaic (PV) cells in the world, over 90 % of such PV cells are exported, leading Shi Dinghuan (石定寰), the Chairman of the Chinese Renewable Energy Industries Association (CREIA) to lament that China ships out its clean energy only to leave pollution (i.e. coal fired power generation) behind.

As I've argued several times, the battle over coal - export terminals in the Pacific Northwest is the key U.S. climate fight of the next few years.

«The Power Past Coal and Stand Up to Oil coalitions recently delivered over one million statements (to Gov. Inslee) from people opposed to dirty coal and oil export projeCoal and Stand Up to Oil coalitions recently delivered over one million statements (to Gov. Inslee) from people opposed to dirty coal and oil export projecoal and oil export projects.

By comparing subsidy figures in Table 1 in Mining the Age of Entitlement (from TAI) with Queensland coal royalty figures obtained from the Queensland Treasury, we see that coal subsidies over recent years have amounted to around 65 % of the amount Queensland received in royalties from coal exports.

While met coal has typically held a larger market share of U.S. exports than steam (its share remained relatively close to 55 % over a prolonged period), between 2009 and 2011 met coal averaged two - thirds of U.S. coal exports.

As global coal suppliers recover, EIA expects U.S. coal exports, while remaining relatively high, to moderate over the course of the year.

Between 2003 and 2013, members of the OECD export credit group have given over 71.5 billion to oil and gas projects, five times more than to coal.

Over 68 % of total U.S. coal exports in 2010 were coking coal, which is used in making iron and steel.

Coal export on the Columbia River is over.

But the state ALP govts are going gang - busters over their mostly coal - powered generators, freeway extensions and coal exports:

Proposals for expansion of exports focus on sending coal from the Powder River Basin of Wyoming and Montana over rail lines to West Coast ports for shipment to Asian buyers.

«Sierra Club Takes on Trade, Takes Over Twitter Main Huge Turnout in Red Aims to Put the Brakes on Pacific Northwest Coal Export Scheme»

As for how long the BNSF and UP have been exporting coal through Westshore, it has been about five years that there has been much over 1.5 mil tons, this year will be around 6.5 mil including what is going through Prince Rupert, last year was 4mil and the two years before that 3 - 4mil tons.

Dr. James Hansen of NASA believes it is game over if the Tar Sands project goes through, so if that's bad, according to Eric, the export of coal through Idaho and Montana is worse.

The Export - Import Bank, over which the president has authority, has come under fire from environmental groups for financing coal plants in less - developed countries.

The unavailability of significant capacity limits exports from the western United States, the country's largest coal producing region, although the Seattle customs district has seen rapid growth over the past several years exporting steam coal via rail to Canada, where it is then shipped to Asia.

The emissions from the 721 million tons of coal in the South Porcupine is equivalent to the annual emissions of over 234 million passenger cars — that's nearly all the cars in the U.S.. Another way of measuring this coal — especially important for those in the Pacific Northwest resisting the industry's efforts to ship it through their communities for export to Asia — is that 721 million tons of coal is enough to fill 6.5 million train cars.

As with fights under way over the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada, and plans to build coal export terminals on U.S. coastlines, the new fossil fuel abundance is touching off a backlash among those alarmed by the consequences for climate change.