Sentences with phrase «plant closures in»

Three states — Ohio, Georgia and Kentucky — saw the bulk of U.S. coal plant closures in 2015.

While the PSC views the subsidies as a way to control carbon emissions as the state moves toward more renewable energy sources, critics believe the Cuomo administration, which supported the plan, was intent on avoiding the job losses that would have come with plant closures in the hard - pressed region where the plants operate.

A recent incomplete data sample from a compilation of plant closures in California showed that the numbers of minority people laid off exceeded whites laid off — a figure far out of proportion to racial percentages in the general population.

First is the uranium spot market has been rather tight in terms of overall percentage of production, and there have been some nuclear plant closures in addition to shutdowns in Japan after Fukushima.

Concerning base metals, zinc is expected to gain as the sector continues to balance its demand - supply deficit in the near term, following plant closures in 2015.

Europe saw a record 10 gigawatts of coal plant closures in 2016, and countries including Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, and Portugal are working toward aggressive coal retirement schedules or, in the case of the UK, complete phase - out plans.

Ford's plant closure in Southampton has been raised in the House of Commons, during an exchange between the MP for Romsey and Southampton North, Caroline Nokes and the Leader of the Commons, Andrew Lansley.

With the plant closure in Oswego, there will be tons of inventory for sure, but tenants could be a big problem.

Not exact matches

In 2009, General Motors killed its Pontiac line of vehicles, which was named for the city, and then announced the closure of two local plants, putting more than 2,000 people out of work and costing the city a huge chunk of tax revenue.

On Feb. 1, Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels signed a controversial right - to - work law prohibiting workers in union shops from being forced to pay union dues — less than 48 hours before Electro - Motive announced the closure of the London plant, its jobs expected to move to the Hoosier state.

The closure of Hydro - Quebec's Gentilly - 2 nuclear power plant temporarily lowers Quebec's fiscal capacity, as measured under the Equalization program, which in turn lowers Ontario's Equalization entitlement over a three - year period.

One of Canada's leading scholars on deindustrialization and the author of Industrial Sunset: The Making of North America's Rust Belt, 1969 — 1985, Concordia historian Steven High, assumes that deindustrialization did occur to some extent, but that nationalist worker activism forced politicians to legislate advance warnings of shutdowns, better packages and, in some cases, even slowed plant closures.

The manufacturer was losing veteran workers due to retirements and plant closures, resulting in years of accumulated knowledge lost.

Speaking in November after the plant closure was announced, Soglin said he told Oscar Mayer executives in August that city resources were available, but the company never sought assistance.

Nowhere was this more evident than in the closure of the aforementioned Electro - Motive Diesel plant in London.

State Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald has asked Madison and Dane County leaders for records of their communications with Kraft Heinz officials — the latest round in a blame game between elected officials for the planned closure of Madison's Oscar Mayer plant.

While Madison joined other cities in marking the closure of Kraft Heinz factories Wednesday, three plants in New York are expected to stay open for at least five years.

FCA announced the closure of the plant in December 07 because of its high manufacturing costs.

The last couple of months have brought a string of closure announcements, including that of the Redcar plant in Teeside, a symbol of previous against - the - odds survival.

This deep - level understanding of the market system and identification of plant closure with retraining as the solution for a basic problem was spelled out by Pius XI in one of the classic documents of the social magisterium half a century ago.

But in some parts of the country a grass - roots movement of laid - off workers resisting the plant closures is exerting surprising pressure upon its own leadership, as the recent vote by the rank and file membership of United Auto Workers to defy its own leadership and decisively reject a wage agreement with Chrysler Corporation appears to indicate.

Plant - closure and religion and labor coalitions have been formed, among other places, in New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Milwaukee, Chicago and California.

These new developments compel the attention of the American religious community, for they are now affecting millions of workers, their families and their communities in the form of massive plant closures, huge movements of industrial capital overseas and a downshifting of the work force into lower - paying and more menial jobs — when such jobs can be found.

In the year to June 30, 2017, Murray Goulburn reported a loss of $ 370 million loss after a series of writedowns and processing plant closures.

In order to prevent the closures, an agreement was reached under which Kraft - Heinz continued operating the Avon, Walton and Lowville plants while investing tens of millions of dollars into modernising operations.

Coca - Cola European Partners plans UK plant closures, 167 job cuts Coca - Cola European Partners (CCEP) has announced a proposal to close two facilities in the UK market, resulting in a net loss of 167... read more

Farmers are still continuing to seek a resolution to the proposed closure of the Tullos milk processing plant, in Aberdeen, by Muller UK & Ireland.

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Coca - Cola European Partners plans UK plant closures, 167 job cuts Coca - Cola European Partners (CCEP) has announced a proposal to close two facilities in the UK market, resulting in a net loss of 167

Due to a shift in production focusing on glass containers for food and spirits, however, Ardagh (ardaghgroup.com) announced the March 2018 closure of its Milford, Mass., beer bottle plant.

Alongside the Cororooke plant closure, the firm is beginning a three - year program of investment and upgrades at its remaining manufacturing sites in the region.

Investors had originally hoped that an additional $ 120 million of cost savings in 2018 and 2019 from the sale and closure of bottling plants and head office restructuring would start flowing through to the bottom line in 2018.

Sanders on Monday issued a statement calling for the plant's closure in a «safe and responsible way.»

The news of Indian Point's potential closure comes weeks after the state Court of Appeals dealt Entergy a setback in its bid for a new license, interpreting state coastal water rules in a way that gave Cuomo's administration more authority over whether the plant could operate in the Hudson River.

His administration is on a fast track to close that plant by 2021, and his top energy officials testified at a hearing on the proposed Indian Point closure earlier in the month.

A Hudson Valley - based environmental group will hold a panel discussion Wednesday in Manhattan about the impending closure of the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Westchester County.

A report commissioned by two environmental groups shows that low - carbon options will be ready to replace the more than 2,000 megawatts of power lost by the closure of New York's Indian Point nuclear power plant in four years.

Astorino, speaking with reporters on Monday after addressing the Conservative Party's annual confab in Albany, pointed to a federal law that gives the Department of Energy authority over the closure of nuclear power plants.

Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino plans to speak with Energy Sectetary - designate Rick Perry about the planned closure of the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Buchanan.

County Executive Rob Astorino kicked off his Town Hall series in the northern Westchester town of Cortlandt last night, where the planned closure of the Indian Point nuclear power plant will have an impact.

State officials argued that nuclear plant closures would prompt an increase in fossil fuel generation, in conflict with Cuomo's goal to reduce carbon emmissions 40 percent by 2030.

The Alcoa plant's closure in Massena has been pegged in part to the broader aluminum market worldwide.

Such extended seasonal closures would certainly cut into the plant's profits — according to Entergy, the plant's operator, they would cost billions of dollars annually — and if they were put in place over the long term, could mean the end of Indian Point as a going concern.

A 23 member closure task force formed under the governor's Public Service Commission met for the first time May 31 to map out how to decommission the plant, which is slated for permanent closure in 2021.

If the proposal to mandate season shutdowns starting next year were truly meant to cripple Indian Point, it would represent the boldest assertion of political muscle by Cuomo in the service of that goal at least since his first year as governor, when his aides reportedly informed Entergy that the administration intended to work toward the plant's closure.

The loss in just a few years of Indian Point's 2,000 megawatts of clean, emission - free power, however, should be no consolation for environmentalists who truly support clean air and climate - change goals but ironically are celebrating the plant's closure.

He has also repeatedly called for the closure of the Indian Point nuclear plant in Westchester County, a popular move with advocacy groups.

WASHINGTON — House Democrats Wednesday cited plant closures from across the country — including the shutdown of the Dresser - Rand plant in Wellsville — as arguments that the Republican tax cut bill passed last year isn't bringing back jobs as the GOP had promised.

It's hoped that energy generated from the project could, in part, replace the closure of the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Westchester County.

«The plan included the immediate permanent closure of six nuclear power plants that had been temporarily shut down for testing in March 2011, and two more that have been offline a few years with technical problems.