Sentences with phrase «over the coals in»

Google is getting raked over the coals in Europe for its allegedly anti-competitive search results.

While I could roast peppers myself, you just can't beat the chilies roasted over coals in a hopper.

Originally cooked over coals in pits dug in the ground, pollo pibil is most often baked in ovens these days.

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).

While 16 Republicans are raked over the coals in the report, Cuomo and Kentucky's Steve Beshear were the only Democrats.

There is a small electric bar fridge, with meals cooked outside using a Coleman stove or grilled over coals in the fire pit.

Why is ExperTox a legitimate authority on the detection of lead, yet is being raked over the coals in its detection of Acetaminophen?

Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata has been hauled over the coals in a new investor Q&A, wherein he remains defiant in the face of accusations of flip - flopping on stereoscopic 3D and failing to secure third party software support for the Wii U.

That's another strike against those, including a Cornell academic, who argue that so - called fugitive emissions from unconventional natural gas production offset the emissions advantages natural gas has over coal in power generation.

Not exact matches

Mines minister Norman Moore has attacked South West Greens MLC Lyn MacLaren accusing her of whipping up hysteria over the issue of a proposed coal mine in Margaret River.

The U.S. wind and solar industries employ over 300,000 people, making clean energy an important political constituency that is about five times bigger than the coal sector for jobs, thanks to years of rapid growth fueled by government incentives and declines in the cost of their technologies.

The fossil fuel divestment campaign began on university campuses in 2011 but the new report reveals that concerns over investments in coal, oil and gas have now entered the financial mainstream, with more than 80 % of the funds now committed to divest being managed by commercial investment and pension funds.

Cleaner burning natural gas has been replacing aging coal power plants in droves over the past several years thanks to both economics and environmental reasons.

We referenced their numbers when we looked at the changing anatomy of U.S. oil imports, or when showing the decline in coal use over recent years.

So, it's not so much about the act of walking over burning hot coals, but about having people face and overcome something in spite of fear.

«He's got no energy plan, no financial analysis, if he thinks he's going to sell it off and the private sector is going to come in and invest, that is a recipe for Puerto Rico being raked over the coals by private interests,» Tom Sanzillo, director of finance for the Cleveland, Ohio - based Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis.

The U.S. generates over 1.7 million megawatt hours from coal - fired power, compared to less than 100,000 megawatt hours in Canada, and U.S. coal generation is expected to remain roughly constant through 2040 absent any new regulations.

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 coal credits helped the company lower its effective tax rate further, to just over four percent in 2014 and 7.4 percent in 2015.

A coalition of environment groups sued in May over the action, asking a U.S. court to stop Interior from issuing coal leases until it completes the analysis.

In Monday's speech, the Liberals said that the rising costs over the past decade have been related to removing coal - fired generation from the electricity system.

But like so many miners in Hazard, surrounding Perry County and throughout eastern Kentucky, Bowling was laid off, another victim of the coal industry's steady decline nationwide, especially over the past decade.

New research from North Carolina State University and the University of Colorado Boulder finds that steep declines in the use of coal for power generation over the past decade were caused largely by less expensive natural...

At least one fifth of the coal plants in the U.S. have been closed, or are in the process of closing, over the past several years due to their inability to economically meet emissions standards from the EPA.

Appalachian Voices, an environmental group, estimates that coal companies have buried over 2,000 miles of streams in the region through mountaintop removal mining since the 1990s.

In a trio of public hearings, members of the Senate Judiciary and Senate and House Intel committees raked Facebook's legal stunt double over the coals, occasionally tossing a question to Twitter or Google.

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.

They report that in 2011, Alberta coal power plants produced over 40 megatonnes of CO2: «the same amount produced by roughly half of all cars on the road in Canada today.»

Over a year which has seen large banks halt funding for fossil fuel projects, major institutions divest from oil, gas and coal holdings, and oil companies snap up power and renewables companies in a bid to diversify their asset base, research published today by the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF) and the Climate Change Collaboration suggests nervousness over climate risk has shot up in financial circOver a year which has seen large banks halt funding for fossil fuel projects, major institutions divest from oil, gas and coal holdings, and oil companies snap up power and renewables companies in a bid to diversify their asset base, research published today by the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF) and the Climate Change Collaboration suggests nervousness over climate risk has shot up in financial circover climate risk has shot up in financial circles.

The decline in coal consumption fits an overall pattern seen in China over the past few years, which suggests that China is running out of high quality coal.

Of the other MINTs: Indonesia is in a stable recovery, but the importance of commodities like coal and palm oil means it will not return to previous growth levels soon; Nigeria's economy remains overdependent on oil, though Phylaktis sees its «fast - growing population and labor force feeding faster economic growth over the medium term»; and while «Turkey has a lot of potential,» Lau says, «its political and economic management is questionable and casts a shadow over the economy.»

China remains a towering presence in coal markets, but our projections suggest that coal use peaked in 2013 and is set to decline by almost 15 % over the period to 2040.

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 prices of other resource commodities increased on average by 5.8 per cent over the three months to April, driven by increases in the prices of alumina, coal and iron ore.

Steaming coal contract prices, which rose by over 60 per cent in US dollar terms in 2004, are expected to increase by at least another 20 per cent in the coming year.

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).

In the case of coal, while the capacity of port and rail infrastructure has become stretched with the latest surge in global demand, the industry has been expanding transport capacity steadily over recent yearIn the case of coal, while the capacity of port and rail infrastructure has become stretched with the latest surge in global demand, the industry has been expanding transport capacity steadily over recent yearin global demand, the industry has been expanding transport capacity steadily over recent years.

The Warsaw Conference has put the interests of dirty energy industries over that of global citizens — with a «Coal & Climate Summit» being held in conjunction; corporate sponsorship from big polluters plastered all over the venue; and a Presidency (Poland) that is beholden to the coal and fracking indusCoal & Climate Summit» being held in conjunction; corporate sponsorship from big polluters plastered all over the venue; and a Presidency (Poland) that is beholden to the coal and fracking induscoal and fracking industry.

U.S. coal production hit its lowest level in 40 years in 2016, and the size of the coal mining work force has been cut nearly in half, to stand at just 77,000 workers (roughly the employee size of Delta Airlines or Whole Foods), spread out over a few dozen companies.

[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 19In 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 19in 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 19in iron ore and coal exports over the next half decade, of around 9 — 10 per cent per year (Figure 19).

Other things equal, subsequent declines in spot prices for iron ore and coking coal would, if sustained, see the terms of trade fall further over the next few quarters.

Over a morning tea with Sam Walsh in early 2015 it first became apparent that Rio Tinto had put an exit sign over its coal businOver a morning tea with Sam Walsh in early 2015 it first became apparent that Rio Tinto had put an exit sign over its coal businover its coal business.

In actuality, it's the same reason that coal prices have been cut in half over the last two years — demand is no longer increasing at the rate it once waIn actuality, it's the same reason that coal prices have been cut in half over the last two years — demand is no longer increasing at the rate it once wain half over the last two years — demand is no longer increasing at the rate it once was.

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.

More recently, manufacturing output has continued to grow strongly, but shortages of coal have restrained output in energy - intensive sectors so that growth in total industrial production slowed to 5 per cent over the year to February.

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

The recent annual contract negotiations between suppliers and Japanese steelmakers for iron ore delivered price increases of nearly 20 per cent in US dollar terms, with significant increases expected in contract negotiations for coal over coming months.

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.

I saw the tracks they left on the highways, lying on the floor of freight trains, the parents in rags, the coal box empty, the sink running over, the walls sweating and between the cold beads of sweat the cockroaches running like mad; I saw them hobbling along like twisted gnomes or falling backwards in the epileptic frenzy....

Well after much teasing from the good kids I scribbled in coal all over the church unti the coal ran out.