Sentences with phrase «saw coal markets»

There was also a record decline in global coal production, driven by low prices globally and then mining controls in China, which saw coal markets rally.

Not exact matches

The payments would've bolstered the economics for coal and nuclear generators who've seen their profits and market share squeezed by cheap gas and renewables.

According to S&P, coal is poised to see a shrinking share of the world's power generation market, which could lead to some coal reserves becoming stranded assets.

Yesterday (November 7), a subscriber e-mailed to ask why we were targeting Market Vectors Coal ($ KOL) for potential swing trade buy entry (click here to see the original blog post explaining the technical trade setup).

Additionally, Trump has vowed to revitalise the coal industry, but with abundant natural gas replacing coal in electricity markets, it is difficult to see how he can accomplish this, without heavily subsidizing coal --- a move that he would be at pains to justify.

As the market for coal goes global (see our piece in Boston Review on this issue, September 2009) the future of global warming will depend on the interests in the countries that are least interested in slowing global warming.

In 1991, it was nothing more than a suggestion to invite science - based rebuttal back into an issue Al Gore and his friends hijacked with assertions that catastrophic man - caused global warming was settled science; a suggestion which came out of a leaked non-profit coal association's public relations test market campaign which was so obscure that practically no one ever saw or heard about it.

Be sure to check out past posts on this issue to see mines like this one compared with more familiar features like San Francisco, and get an idea how big the trains are that carry all this coal to foreign markets.

Q: The coal industry has faced depressed prices over the last several years — what impact have you seen on the market due to that (focus on Africa)-- potential supply side deficit / inability...

In a world where carbon emissions will increasingly have to be constrained, coal, as the dirtiest of the fossil fuels, is the energy asset most vulnerable to becoming «stranded» — the most vulnerable, in other words, to seeing its market value collapse well ahead of its previously anticipated useful life.

Enron was a a major natural gas distributor and saw in Kyoto a means to suppress demand for coal, natural gas's chief competitor in the electricity fuel market.

Ending its report with the tagline «China is coal, coal is China,» the IEA sees that country as determining the course of the global coal market over the next five years.

The rapid displacement of coal in the US domestic market has seen US producers try and switch to exporting, but that window is already starting to close.

The market implications for this are significant, in that conventional generation is now fighting to maintain its share of a shrinking pie, and the U.S. Department of Energy's clumsy moves to find a rationale to bail out the coal and nuclear industries can be seen in this light.

Victories were seen on four continents: in Bolivia a draconian response to protestors embarrassed the government, causing them to drop plans to build a road through Tipnis, an indigenous Amazonian reserve; in Myanmar, a nation not known for bowing to public demands, large protests pushed the government to cancel a massive Chinese hydroelectric project; in Borneo a three - year struggle to stop the construction of a coal plant on the coast of the Coral Triangle ended in victory for activists; in Britain plans to privatize forests created such a public outcry that the government not only pulled back but also apologized; and in the U.S. civil disobedience and massive marches pressured the Obama Administration to delay a decision on the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, which would bring tar sands from Canada to a global market.

China could become a net exporter of coal again before 2020, which would see the seaborne thermal coal market weakened again, the report finds.

This is normal for a commodity like coal and has been seen in other commodity markets in recent years too.

This move comes at an opportune time when coal prices have dropped by 30 to 40 % since the summer, but GLF points out an earlier post (see finding # 4) on a recent MIT coal report that suggests the upstream coal industry has already moved towards a de facto market price system.

I see I missed discussing «how the market works» to the degree needed to explain the complete problem with coal, though I touched on it when I mentioned the cost advantage of coal.

As to how, have you seen that coal spot market prices have tripled for most markets in the last year?

Right now, our cap and trade program is forced to assign unspecified market purchases a carbon cost that reflects a lower carbon content than coal because we can't actually see which plants are providing that generation.

It's because Big Oil / Gas is determined to increase its market share in the electricity generation market at the expense of coal and nuclear, and sees wind and solar as a strategem to get the environmentalist useful idiots on board.