Sentences with phrase «plant project near»

The announcement follows other news, including that the Chinese government has recently scrapped a massive 2,000 megawatt coal plant project near the cities of Hong Kong and Shenzhen.

Not exact matches

At the signing ceremony in July that finalized plans for Dubai's 2,400 - megawatt Hassyan coal project, the Chinese group set to build the plant and the Saudis who will operate it were joined by a partner: an executive from General Electric ge, standing proudly near a backdrop boasting the familiar blue GE logo.

Local explorer Northern Minerals plans to build a test pilot plant at its Browns Range project near Halls Creek at a cost of about $ US18 million ($ A25 million), rather than proceeding with full - scale development in light of the depressed rare earths market.

Perth - based explorer Image Resources has entered into an agreement for the purchase of a wet concentration plant, and an offtake deal for product from its Boonanarring mineral sands project near Gingin, with a Chinese zircon company to emerge as a major shareholder.

The $ 2.3 - billion project by the small, British company London Mining Plc would also bring diesel power plants, a road and a port near Greenland's capital Nuuk.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

The Des Plaines trail meanders through areas such as Van Patten Woods, a popular family destination near Zion, as well as unusual natural areas such as the Wadsworth Demonstration Project, where the river winds through a living laboratory to study wetland restoration, and MacArthur Woods near Libertyville, home to endangered plants.

Among the project's first priorities are: the reconstruction of a wall that abuts a water - purification plant near 79th Street and the creation of anchored walls with steel sheet pilings along Solidarity Drive — from the John G. Shedd Aquarium to south of the Adler Planetarium — and along Burnham Park between 26th Street to 55th Street.

The defendants in that case include Alain Kaloyeros, former president and CEO of the SUNY Polytechnic Institute, who's accused of rigging bids for a $ 750,000 contract tied to that project and $ 105 million in contracts for a film studio and manufacturing plant near Syracuse.

Projects include the construction of a manufacturing plant on the Lotte Chemical site in Teesside, expansion of the Haribo factory near Wakefield and the development of a former eye hospital in Manchester into a biomedical centre of excellence.

At CERN near Geneva and other large - scale scientific projects, people with a range of skills have come together to work toward specified goals; through citizen science, this idea can be broadened, be it by classifying newly discovered galaxies or identifying plants.

Chaim Motzen, Gigawatt Global's co-founder who led the development of the Agahozo - Shalom solar plant, said in an interview that OPIC's $ 400,000 grant came at «a critical time» for the project, which was conceived in 2012 but met hurdles as it neared closing on its financing agreements.

A new report from a non-profit advocacy organization called the Environmental Integrity Project shows that the groundwater near TVA coal - fired power plants is contaminated with a toxic stew of elements.

Miller's «departure from the field will have serious ramifications for many on - going archaeological projects throughout» the Near East, where she studies plant remains to better understand agricultural economies, wrote Melinda Zeder, director of the archaeobiology program at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., in a letter sent last weekend to Richard Hodges, the museum's director.

Lee Spangler, an MSU chemist involved with the project, is studying whether any of the 11,000 wells near the Colstrip Power Plant in eastern Montana, for instance, would be good conduits for injecting carbon underground.

Analysts say ADM's project is significant for studying how a large amount of human - generated CO2 will behave underground in the Illinois Basin, a rock formation stretching across three states and sitting near some of the nation's highest - polluting coal plants and industrial factories.

As part of the Building a Better Explainer project at N.Y.U.'s Studio 20, we decided to create a visual explainer of radiation levels, inspired by some recent presentations over at XKCD and Information is Beautiful.Both compare radiation doses from everyday activities (like eating a banana or flying across the country) to doses near the Fukushima plant, as well as other disasters like Chernobyl.

To appreciate the size of the project, it's worth noting that in a mere four days on a mountain near Chengdu, Wilson had collected 220 species of plants.

Insiders say the most vulnerable are the National Accelerator Centre near Cape - town, home to a number of particle accelerators, including a powerful cyclotron used for medical, biological and physical research; Mossgas, the multi-billion rand project set up to beat oil sanctions by pumping natural gas ashore from beneath the Indian Ocean; and the Koeberg nuclear power plant at Melkbosstrand.

Among the pending applications: a plan to build two additional boiling - water reactors at the South Texas Project power plant near Houston.

Extending a relationship of more than a decade, the US Department of Energy (DOE) and Research Triangle Institute (RTI) International will collaborate on a project designed to advance the development of coal power plants with near - zero emissions by reducing the cost... Read more →

The collaboration will also include the near - term objectives of confirming projected construction and operating costs, as well as the identification of a lead plant owner / operator for the reactor.

Tucked onto a small lot near Muir Woods National Monument, the Redwood Creek Native Plant Nursery has been producing healthy native California plants for use in restoration projects for almost 25 years.

Redwood Creek Nursery (near Muir Woods) California or Pacific blackberry (Rubus ursinus, pictured above left): This plant will be grown for the coastal climate and stream bank at the Muir Beach Redwood Creek restoration project.

The presidents welcomed: (i) a grant from the U.S. Trade and Development Agency to the China Power Engineering and Consulting Group Corporation to support a feasibility study for an integrated gasification combined cycle (I.G.C.C.) power plant in China using American technology, (ii) an agreement by Missouri - based Peabody Energy to invest and participate in GreenGen, a project of several major Chinese energy companies to develop a near - zero emissions coal - fired power plant, (iii) an agreement between G.E. and Shenhua Corporation to collaborate on the development and deployment of I.G.C.C. and other clean coal technologies; and (iv) an agreement between AES and Songzao Coal and Electric Company to use methane captured from a coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The post doesn't mention the new road to the Pacific or the ethanol plant and sugarcane plantations; or the planned road from Cruzeiro do Sul, Brazil to Pulcallpa, Peru and the multiple big hydro - energy dam constructions it will support; or the new Peruvian oil leases in indigenous reserves; or the BR$ 35 million worth of oil exploration in the Juruá watershed in Acre; or the Madeira River complex of big hydroelectric projects in Rondonia near Bolivia.

It is true that the Google - and NRG - backed three - tower, 370 - megawatt solar power plant under construction in Ivanpah, CA, near Las Vegas, will be the biggest such project in the world when it goes on - line in 2013.

5 November 2013 Carbon finance supported the management of forests spanning 26.5 million hectares worldwide as businesses in 2012 injected a near - record $ 216 million into projects that plant trees, avoid deforestation, improve forest management and support low - carbon agriculture.

Companies like Carbon Engineering in Canada, Global Thermostat in California, and Infinitree in NY also have operational direct air capture demonstration plants with commercial scale projects in their sights for the near future.

Located near Gila Bend, Arizona, the 250 - megawatt (MW) project is the first large - scale solar plant in the United States capable of storing energy it generates.

Large - scale CCS projects in the power sector are now a reality, demonstrated by: * The world's first large - scale power sector CCS project — the Boundary Dam Integrated Carbon Capture and Sequestration Demonstration Project in Canada (CO2 capture capacity of 1 Mtpa)-- becoming operational in October 2014 * Commissioning activities on a new - build 582 megawatt (MW) power plant beginning at the Kemper County Energy Facility in Mississippi (US, CO2 capture capacity of 3 Mtpa) with CO2 capture expected to commence in the first half of 2016 * The Petra Nova Carbon Capture Project at the W.A. Parish power plant near Houston, Texas (US, CO2 capture capacity of 1.4 Mtpa) entering construction in July 2014, with CO2 capture anticipated by the end oproject — the Boundary Dam Integrated Carbon Capture and Sequestration Demonstration Project in Canada (CO2 capture capacity of 1 Mtpa)-- becoming operational in October 2014 * Commissioning activities on a new - build 582 megawatt (MW) power plant beginning at the Kemper County Energy Facility in Mississippi (US, CO2 capture capacity of 3 Mtpa) with CO2 capture expected to commence in the first half of 2016 * The Petra Nova Carbon Capture Project at the W.A. Parish power plant near Houston, Texas (US, CO2 capture capacity of 1.4 Mtpa) entering construction in July 2014, with CO2 capture anticipated by the end oProject in Canada (CO2 capture capacity of 1 Mtpa)-- becoming operational in October 2014 * Commissioning activities on a new - build 582 megawatt (MW) power plant beginning at the Kemper County Energy Facility in Mississippi (US, CO2 capture capacity of 3 Mtpa) with CO2 capture expected to commence in the first half of 2016 * The Petra Nova Carbon Capture Project at the W.A. Parish power plant near Houston, Texas (US, CO2 capture capacity of 1.4 Mtpa) entering construction in July 2014, with CO2 capture anticipated by the end oProject at the W.A. Parish power plant near Houston, Texas (US, CO2 capture capacity of 1.4 Mtpa) entering construction in July 2014, with CO2 capture anticipated by the end of 2016.

While carbon accounting at the scale of individual households and their landholdings is unlikely in the near future, nations and regions need efficient methods to determine how much carbon is held and released within their borders - and this applies even more to the monitoring of projects to store carbon by means of tree plantings and deforestation reduction (e.g..

6 November 2013 Washington, D.C. Carbon finance is supporting the management of forests spanning 26.5 million hectares worldwide after businesses in 2012 injected a near - record $ 216 million into projects that plant trees, avoid deforestation, improve forest management, and support low - carbon agriculture.

U.S. spending on big, near - commercial technology projects in other countries, such as full - scale clean coal plants in China, should be approached cautiously, as it is likely to raise political ire.

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A task - force within the project is nearing completion of a draft handbook focusing on parabolic trough power plants using synthetic oil as heat transfer fluid integrated with a two - tank molten - salt thermal energy storage system.

Similarly, only seagrass beds already located in thermal - stress situations (i.e., in shallow lagoons or near power plant effluents) are expected to be negatively affected by the projected temperature rise.

Another massive coal project proposed to be built near the Sundarbans, the Rampal coal plant, just secured financing from India's Export - Import Bank.

They started their journey near the Aboitiz - led power plant in Toledo City, stopped halfway at the Kepco SPC Power Corporation plant in Naga City, and ended the walk at the Ludo project site, in the heart of the province's capital.

The CCS project was started last October at the plant near New Haven, W.Va., in an attempt to demonstrate the feasibility of capturing carbon from a coal - fired generation facility.

Extending a relationship of more than a decade, the US Department of Energy (DOE) and Research Triangle Institute (RTI) International will collaborate on a project designed to advance the development of coal power plants with near - zero emissions by reducing the cost... Read more →

Other stars who have contributed to Future Forests projects include Cameron Diaz, star of Charlie's Angels; Elijah Wood, who played Frodo in The Lord of the Rings trilogy; and Leonardo DiCaprio, of Titanic fame, who has paid for trees to be planted on a site near Leipzig that once housed silos of Soviet SS20 missiles.

A perfect location for the Sahara Forest Project, which needs to be located very specifically near the coastline in order to pump seawater to the power plant.

Locally - Sourced Wheat to be Feedstock Located near Belle Plaine, Saskatchewan, the Terra Grains Fuels ethanol plant has officially opened and is claiming to be the largest wheat ethanol project in North America.

A huge project that would have turned a former General Motors plant into a mixed - use development near rail transit in Doraville, Ga., crashed recently when public funding was turned down.

Public officials cut the ribbon last week on NovaThermal's first project, a pilot plant at Philadelphia's Southeast Wastewater Treatment Plant, near the Walt Whitman Brplant at Philadelphia's Southeast Wastewater Treatment Plant, near the Walt Whitman BrPlant, near the Walt Whitman Bridge.