Sentences with phrase «proposed coal mine»

Giuliani Firm to Do Legal Bidding A Navajo Nation enterprise has filed a lawsuit against the US Environmental Protection Agency Tuesday for dragging its feet on an air permit for a proposed coal - fired power plant.

«This is a worst - case scenario,» said David Graham - Caso, spokesman for the Sierra Club, which estimates that its «Beyond Coal» campaign has helped to block 139 proposed coal plants in the United States over the last few years.

In a speech to the League of Conservation Voters declaring opposition to a proposed coal export terminal, Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber stated:

In Washington State, the Port of Tacomasaid Friday that it would not host a proposed coal loading plant, citing «a multitude of business and community factors.»

26 February 2007 - Under mounting pressure from environmental groups, TXU Corporation, a Dallas - based energy company, abandons plans for 8 of 11 proposed coal - fired power plants, catalyzing the shift from coal - based to renewable energy development in Texas.

Compliance is expected to raise the considerable costs of 32 proposed coal plants, some already under construction.

These members of the Lummi Nation will travel 1,200 miles from the coal strip - mine sites in the Powder River Basin to the proposed coal terminal site at Cherry Point in Washington.

Next week — Sept. 17, to be exact — starts off a series of public hearings about proposed coal export terminals in Washington State:

Meanwhile, in Cebu, community representatives, environmental activists, and civil society groups led a 60 - kilometer «climate walk» tracing the path of existing and proposed coal plants in the province last March 15 to 18.

In 2008, the following 26 proposed coal plants were cancelled, abandoned, or put on hold, including 25 projects the United States and 1 project in the Netherlands:

As the Northwest and the rest of the world are increasingly feeling the effects of climate change from more frequent and extreme droughts, wildfires, and flooding, proposed coal export and oil transport infrastructure in the region would lock - in for decades huge amount more carbon pollution.

He expressed the sentiment in a media briefing organized by clean energy group RE-AMP, arguing against a proposed coal plant in Marshalltown, Iowa.

The proposed coal export and oil transport terminals pose a host of dangers to Northwest communities, our economy, our health and our climate.

The U.S. Department of Energy cancels plans to build the experimental FutureGen plant in Mattoon, Illinois, which would attempt to capture and FutureGen is a proposed coal plant in Mattoon, Illinois.

The page discusses many of the contentious issues relating to the proposed coal mine.

With a small internet café as his headquarters, Ramesh Agrawal organized villagers to demand their right to information about industrial development projects and succeeded in shutting down one of the largest proposed coal mines in Chhattisgarh.

Meanwhile, Jasmine See of Pusyon Kinaiyahan shared how her group and other concerned citizens are opposing the revival of a proposed coal - fired power plant in Sawang Calero, Cebu City.

Future CO2 emissions and electricity generation from proposed coal - fired power plants in India Christine Shearer, Robert Fofrich, and Steven J. Davis Earth's Future April 2017

Under mounting pressure from environmental groups, TXU Corporation, a Dallas - based energy company, abandons plans for 8 of 11 proposed coal - fired power plants, catalyzing the shift from coal - based to renewable energy development in Texas.

By denying permits for the largest proposed coal export terminal in North America, the Army Corps is honoring the Lummi Nation's treaty rights and protecting the Salish Sea for all people who call the Pacific Northwest home,» said Crina Hoyer, executive director of Bellingham's Re Sources for Sustainable Communities.

Last week's denial of Ambre Energy's permit for its proposed coal export terminal on the Columbia River demostrates the real power of local communities to stop coal exports in their tracks.

Compliance is expected to raise the already considerable costs of 32 proposed coal plants, some already under construction.

China's Growing Role as Funder of Africa's Proposed Coal Plants Christine Shearer CoalSwarm August 2016

Or take for instance, the federal court ruling last week that halted a proposed coal mining operation in Colorado stating that the «social costs» of contributions the mine would make to worsening impacts of climate change in the future were not taken into consideration.

CoalSwarm provides individual profiles of over a thousand existing and proposed coal plants in the United States and numerous other countries.

This week, the Central Java Coal Power Project added to its list of failures, as continued refusal by villagers to sell their land for the proposed coal plant has forced the Indonesian government to yet again extend the deadline for financial closure of the project.

And critics note that more than half of the proposed coal stations will use more conventional — and polluting — technologies.

In addition, CoalSwarm provides sortable tracking tables for proposed coal plants in the United States, coal plant retirements in the United States, and proposed coal plants in India.

In conjunction with Coal Action Network Aotearoa, CoalSwarm tracks operating and proposed coal mines, coal export terminals, coal seam gas projects, and other coal - related projects in New Zealand.

The state says Millennium Bulk Terminals is partially to blame for the holdup in permitting a proposed coal terminal in Longview.

By Samantha Wohlfeil MAY 9, 2016 11:09 AM The proposed coal terminal at Xwe» chi'eXen, also knows as Cherry Point, Wash., is dead in the water after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued a landmark decision and denied a federal permit Monday, May 9.

A large percentage of proposed coal - to - gas plants would be built in Northwest China

Cowlitz County and the Washington State Department of Ecology have finally released the draft of their long - awaited Environmental Impact Statement regarding a proposed coal export terminal in Longview, Washington.

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In the Northwest, Puget Sound Energy has built early - exit provisions into its proposed coal contract for the Colstrip plant in Montana, a town that is feeling the pangs of coal's decline.

During the communist era, Horní Jiřetín was almost destroyed multiple times due to proposed coal mine construction.

While proposed coal and oil terminals have been controversial for years, climate activists in the Northwest have significantly intensified their tactics this summer.

In Indonesia, we are helping to organize communities against numerous proposed coal power plants, especially the large Cirebon and Indramayu plants.

A proposed coal export facility in Longview, Washington has been stopped, as a state agency denied a key permit the project needed to move forward.

Proposed coal terminals in Longview and Bellingham or oil terminals in Vancouver and Gray's Harbor, would lead to more carbon emissions than produced in the state of Washington each year.

The group is demanding an immediate halt to all shipments of fossil fuels through the Northwest and calling on Governor Inslee to reject permits for all new fossil fuel projects in Washington, including proposed coal and oil terminals.

Here, Dawn Regier of Portland raised her concerns about the proposed coal export facility.

The buyers won backing from Washington DC - based environmental groups Environmental Defense and the Natural Resources Defense Council in exchange for scrapping plans to build eight of 11 proposed coal plants.

The Sierra Club, which has kept a tally of proposed coal - fired power plants and their fates since 2000, reports that 152 plants in the United States have been defeated or abandoned.

[2] The proposed coal terminal is being opposed by environmental groups, which have filed legal challenges against the county permit approving the project.

It was announced in early October 2012 that a joint environmental review of the proposed coal port would be conducted by Cowlitz County, the Washington Department of Ecology and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

The group said they were protesting the proposed coal export terminals in the state, including Millennium Bulk Logistics Longview Terminal in Longview and Gateway Pacific Terminal near Ferndale, Washington.

Platts editors provide an update on four remaining proposed coal export terminals planned for the Pacific Northwest following the announcement that a second project had been abandoned.

On August 9, 2011 Vancouver and Longview citizen groups announced they are suing Millenium Bulk Logistics, the owner of a proposed coal terminal in Longview.