Sentences with phrase «over the coals of»

Growing up in a village in Punjab, India, she learned from her elders the secrets of cooking over the coals of a small clay pit.

Yet Johnson, a former union leader himself, has curiously decided that now is the time to rake over the coals of Labour's recent leadership contest and called for union influence over the party to be further reduced, thus proving the old adage that former poachers make worse gamekeepers.

This is why raking over the coals of ancient ways of doing things is so depressing.

He then rakes over the coals of SA

How many times have there been people in blackface in the media being hauled over the coals of late?

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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.

If previous experience holds, they expect they'll find the stuff all over the world, including Antarctica, half a world away from most of the world's coal plants.

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.

The chief executive of mining giant Rio Tinto will hand the reins over to the leader of the company's copper and coal division later this year.

«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.N. Security Council on Friday blacklisted dozens of ships and shipping companies over oil and coal smuggling...

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.

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.

«I spent a lot of time arguing that financial firms can be profitable and strong without raking their customers over the coals,» Cherny says.

What all this portends for the future of Hazard remains to be seen, though there's little doubt that King Coal's absolute reign is over.

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...

During the presidential campaign, hackers cracked open all of the Democrats» secrets and splayed them out for everyone to see, while Hillary Clinton was raked over the coals for using an insecure server for her own personal email.

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.

Few thought Japanese regulators would take their sweet time evaluating whether the deal would give Glencore too much control over the market for certain types of coal that come out of HVO.

Over the past six months, the prices of most commodities have increased, although it is the prices of iron ore and coking coal that have risen particularly strongly.

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.»

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.

But he said moving to meet climate targets is becoming more affordable because while policy is still important the energy market is transforming so fast that «market forces have taken over», market forces around wind and solar power and batteries «are just accelerating regardless of what anyone else does» and decisions by companies like AGL Energy to close their Liddell coal power station «are being made on economic grounds».

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.

Just over a decade ago, coal - fired power generated more than 50 % of U.S. electricity.

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.&raquOf 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.&raquof 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.&raquof potential,» Lau says, «its political and economic management is questionable and casts a shadow over the economy.»

Since coal is the largest source of US emissions, the move to clamp down on the industry will go a long way toward reducing America's carbon footprint over the next two decades.

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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 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.

A cable - stayed bridge over the Fraser River and a big earthquake could make for massive problems Daniel Wood is an investigative journalist uncovering the truth behind the Massey tunnel replacement For those hoping to halt the export of thermal coal from the lower Fraser River, it's useful to consider a century - old American spiritual song that -LSB-...]

19 No one stops to think, no one has the knowledge or understanding to say, «Half of it I used for fuel; I even baked bread over its coals, I roasted meat and I ate.