Sentences with phrase «planned coal port»
According to currently available information on planned coal port expansions, committed investment will increase port capacity by an estimated 13 per cent over the next two years or so.
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If that and other planned expansions go ahead, Vancouver, which has visions of becoming the world's greenest city, could instead increase its capacity to export the black stuff by almost half, becoming North America's largest coal port.
We zeroed in on the proposed Fraser Surrey Docks facility, part of the federal port authority's plan to turn Vancouver into the continent's biggest coal port.
Those existing ports include Abbot Point, where India's Adani Group and compatriot GVK plan a huge coal terminal expansion, and Gladstone, where ship traffic is set to increase sharply from 2015 as huge new liquefied natural gas plants start exports.
Plans to start mining and exporting coal from one of the country's biggest deposits — the Galilee basin — require the expansion of the Abbot Point shipping port in north Queensland, within the boundaries of the famous marine park.
Recently, the government, headed by Prime Minister Tony Abbott, triggered a public debate over plans to construct potentially the world's largest coal port adjacent to the Great Barrier Reef, a UNESCO World Heritage Area, and to excise 74,000 hectares of forest from Tasmania's World Heritage — listed site.
To accommodate the enormous output of this mega mine, Adani is planning to expand its existing Abbot Point terminal and build two more ports to ensure the 60 million tons of coal can be dumped on international markets - after traveling through the Great Barrier Reef.
By the mid 2020s, for example, Kawasaki Heavy Industries plans to begin importing brown coal fired, carbon - capture - and - storage produced hydrogen from Australia's state of Victoria to the southern Japanese port city of Kobe.
The company stated that it was going to do a thorough environmental impact statement with public input before proceeding with it plans to redevelop the port for coal exports.
Coal - port expansion is the fifth most carbon - intensive project currently planned in the world, bigger than anything else over which American politicians have control.
Plans to ship coal 1,500 miles by rail to five planned new ports in the Pacific Northwest and Canada face intense environmental opposition.
Coal ports planned for the West Coast haven't been built.
Arch is making plans to ship at least a portion of this coal to Asia by way of west coast ports.
A new port planned for north of the city would ramp up rail traffic as coal would be hauled through here nine times daily from Wyoming and Montana for a seaward journey to Asia.
At the same time, another climate drama is playing out with much less attention as coal companies make plans to export huge quantities to Asia by way of Pacific Northwest ports.
Environmental groups will be there to oppose the port, noting that policies in both states effectively block new coal - fired plants and that both have plans to close the few that remain.