Sentences with phrase «rich in coal»

America is an energy rich country and we are especially rich in coal.
If the exporting region is rich in coal resources, like Shanxi, this line will mainly transmit coal power throughout its lifetime, unless new transmission investments are made to connect other areas with renewable resources.
Kurri Kurri and surrounding villages are rich in coal mining history.
You also learn a bit about the history of the area, which was once rich in coal, iron, and clay.
April 17, 2018 • North Carolina isn't rich in coal, natural gas or oil, but it has more hogs than nearly any other state.
Earlier this year, Wu Xiaoqing, vice minister of China's Ministry of Environmental Protection, said in a press conference that «central and western China are rich in coal and have a bigger environmental capacity; we encourage adopting coal - to - gas technology there, and use the produced gas to replace coal needed in the eastern part of the nation.»
«China's central and western regions are rich in coal, and their environmental capacity is better than the Beijing - Hebei - Tianjin region, so we are encouraging them to develop coal - to - gas and to replace coal burning in eastern regions.»
But the real level of unemployment or underemployment is masked by the fact that the official data does not include China «s 277 million migrant workers, such as Zhang Sihu and his wife from Bianqiang in Yulin, a region rich in coal, oil and natural gas in northwestern Shaanxi province.

Not exact matches

Strike Energy's share price has been on a white knuckle ride over the last few weeks as investors desperately try to work out if it is going to be the next large cap gas producer in Australia, or fail whilst daring to create a new technical frontier in the search for coal seam gas riches.
The country is rich in oil, gas, coal, tin, copper, silver, and gold, plus conveniently placed much closer to China and India than many other commodities sources.
Wyoming, with rich reserves of low - sulfur coal near the surface, is the largest coal - producing - state and has the most coal still in the ground at producing mines.
The natural - resource - rich state is also known for its natural gas production (it leads the nation), coal, electricity (again, number one in the States) and renewable energy — specifically, wind energy.
We recognize this goodness in the fertility of the soil, natural harbors, scenic beauty, the availability of water, and the subsurface riches of coal, oil, gold, iron and other substances.
Sleek and sophisticated, the Coal collection is fashioned in a rich charcoal for an elegant statement that never goes out of style.
A mining boom has spared Australia from the downturn, and whilst far poorer and lacking modern infrastructure, Romania remains rich in natural resources — petroleum, timber, natural gas, coal, iron and gold.
They could be unemployed due to globalization dislocations, religious conservatives, anti-abortion proponents, rich (e.g. Bill Gates is a college dropout, so he shows up in the no college degree statistics), former coal miners, believers in a stronger military, pragmatic foreign policy, or just supporters of law enforcement.
One, as at the Schwarze Pumpe, involves the oxyfuel process: burning coal in pure oxygen to produce a stream of CO2 - rich emissions.
At the same time, Senator Barack Obama, from coal - rich Illinois, abruptly shifted his support for subsidizing coal - derived fuel production to concentrate on another bill he had been sponsoring that would cut greenhouse gas emissions and reduce carbon content in transport fuel.
The International Energy Agency (an energy policy organization for the world's 28 richest countries) estimates that the world needs to spend $ 20 billion in the next few years developing and deploying such clean coal technology.
But campaigners have expressed concern that the burden of pollution is likely to be shifted to other regions, with high - emission sectors like thermal power still on course to expand rapidly in big, coal - rich regions like Inner Mongolia, Ningxia or Xinjiang.
No other coal deposit on the planet is so big, so close to the surface and so cheap to mine as the rich seams in eastern Wyoming and southern Montana.
The coal - rich American West has a long history of such fires — in fact, the Powder River, whose basin in northeast Wyoming and southeast Montana is the source of about 40 percent of America's coal, was so named because the area smelled like burning gunpowder.
Now, iron - rich particles from steel manufacturing and coal burning, collected in the East China Sea, have been found to have a thick sulphate coating containing soluble iron that provides the «smoking gun'to prove the theory of acid iron dissolution.
One, as at Schwarze Pumpe, involves the oxyfuel process: burning coal in pure oxygen to produce a stream of CO2 - rich emissions.
In Jharia, famous for its rich coal resources, 700,000 people are exposed to toxic smoke that seeps from the ground as fires from opencast coalmines burn around the clock.
Like all TTX properties, Vermejo is especially rich in history, containing coal and gold mining settlements, adobe ruins, petroglyphs, artifacts and abandoned charcoal ovens.
The primary reason has been due to a down - cycle in commodities, as Australia, a resource - rich nation, is a net exporter of coal, natural gas, and uranium.
It has a rich industrial history of coal mining particularly in the main town of Longyearbyen, named after its most famous coal mining entrepreneur.
This coal mining town is rich in history.
Pittsburgh has an incredibly rich history in the realm of industry and was the dominant power in steel, bronze, tin, coal, aluminum, food and glass production from the late 19th - century through to the mid-20th-century.
Pittsburgh has an incredibly rich history in the realm of industry and was the dominant power in steel, bronze, tin, coal, aluminum, food, and glass production from the late 19th century through the mid-20th century.
It's good old fashioned black carbon soot — a visible pollutant with measurable effects on human health both in poor places, where it comes from cooking or heating using coal, firewood or dung, and rich countries, where it is produced mainly through the combustion of diesel and similar fuels and from some industries.
The Kyoto Protocols to the FCCC, and the Clean Development Mechanism (which allows rich countries to burn coal and oil if they pay poor countries to plant trees, and so is neither clean nor results in development), only made things worse, CDM only gives credit for planting trees, which are only at best a temporary reservoir and not a real stink, while they ignore ALL the real long term carbon sinks.
Mercury emissions from coal - fired power plants can be reduced by using chemical filters, but while this is increasingly the norm in the rich world many developing countries have yet to catch up.
Experts say unique habitats rich in wildlife are under threat as Britain's power stations switch from burning coal to wood, writes BRENDAN MONTAGUE
For instance, while Wyoming is among the 27 states fighting President Obama's Clean Power Plan in court, the coal - rich state looks set to meet the emissions benchmarks in those power - plant rules, largely because of a giant wind farm poised to be built in, yes, Carbon County, and newly approved transmission lines to send electricity to states in the power - hungry Southwest.
Australian coal producers — in particular the billionaire miners Gina Rinehart and Clive Palmer — face another major roadblock to their dreams of digging up the Galilee Basin and other coal - rich resources: The likely new prime minister of India is not a big fan of coal.
That coal, gas and uranium rich Australia is in the midst of an energy crisis is mind - boggling to most.
So it is welcome news that Ningxia, also a coal - rich region, will be the beneficiary of China's first million - kw air - cooling systems in ultra-supercritical coal - fired power plants.
-- http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jun/08/five-g7-nations-increased-their-coal-use-over-a-five-year-period-research-shows Five of the world's seven richest countries have increased their coal use in the last five years despite demanding that poor countries slash their carbon emissions to avoid catastrophic climate change, new research shows.
Obama: I have always been in favor of an «all of the above» climate policy, including a carbon price with cap and trade, crippling EPA regulatory restrictions on the coal plus oil and gas industries, fewer incentives for exploratory drilling, no further drilling on government lands, no Keystone pipeline, more taxes on the rich, etc..
If those people rely heavily on fossil fuels such as coal to expand the economy and raise their living standards to the level people in the rich world have enjoyed for the last 50 years, the result will be a climate catastrophe regardless of anything the United States or even China does to decrease its emissions.
Lucas, an amiable Southerner who likes to mix it up with his opponents in the environmental movement, grew up in coal - rich Kentucky.
ACCCE's ad blitz features sleek piano music and high - tech images of the globe; a panoply of workers voicing their belief in new technology; and, of course, President Obama, speaking at a campaign stop in coal - rich southwestern Virginia.
All rich countries would have to commit now to build no more coal - fired power plants and phase out existing ones in the next 2 - 3 decades (carbon capture and storage simply will not be ready in time), and the same commitment would need to be made within a few years by China, India, Brazil and other big developing countries.
Coal, gas and uranium rich Australia shouldn't be paying the highest power prices in the world; and it shouldn't be cutting power to businesses and hospitals during hot weather, when demand spikes and -LSB-...]
An unlikely alliance has emerged in some regions, especially in New South Wales and Queensland, between environmentalists and traditionally hostile farmers to oppose the rapid spread of huge new coal mines on rich agricultural land and coal seam gas reserves being accessed by fracking.
Adani Group is an Indian conglomerate made up of various subsidiary companies, including Adani Mining, which operates in Australia, Indonesia and other coal - rich countries.
This was reasonably common in the large British cites burning sulphur rich coal.
Quite simply: The Bank finances a fossil fuel project, involving oil, natural gas, or coal, in Poor Country A. Rich Country B asks the Bank to help arrange carbon credits so Country B can tell its carbon counters it's taking serious action on climate change.
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