Sentences with phrase «vast coal and oil»

Not exact matches

Estimates vary widely on just how much methane is leaked from the vast network of oil and gas wells, pipelines and processing plants, but the problem has cast doubt on how much better natural gas is than coal for the environment.

Part of the reason for the lock - in is the vast infrastructure dedicated to sustaining the supply of coal, oil and gas.

Global greenhouse People are causing the change by burning nature's vast stores of coal, oil and natural gas.

An oil - drilling craze that began here in the 1850s created vast fortunes but would boom, bust, and eventually dry up in Pennsylvania, like coal and steel, leaving behind unemployment, a compromised ecology, and faded grandeur by the cubic foot.

Nonetheless, vast amounts of methane escape from landfills, livestock, coal mines and oil and gas wells, pipelines and storage tanks.

The Defense Department has been aggressively studying ways to provide secure sources of the vast amounts of fuel necessary to wage war even as oil dwindles and without the potential climate impact of turning coal into liquids.

A new buzz phrase in the push to limit greenhouse gas emissions is «unburnable carbon» — an effort to define and then wall off the portion of the world's still - vast reserves of coal, oil or natural gas that might, if combusted, cause unacceptably costly or dangerous climate change.

It is, however, a fact that coal is at least on a par with the oil sands resources as far as detriment to the CO2 environment, and there is vast and growing rate of usage of this.

They are using their vast political power to leverage a future of total human servitude to corporate ideology, while the independent coal miners and oil roughnecks are returned to a life of poverty and misery.

But, ultimately, we have to get off both oil and coal, and start using renewables for the vast majority of our energy.

The vast majority of the India «s energy needs are met by emission - intensive fossil fuels, mainly coal and oil.

This is the same guy who just green - lighted offshore Arctic oil drilling and promised to open vast tracts of public land to heavily - subsidized coal mining.

The plaintiffs contended that the fossil fuel development plans for the vast Miles City, Montana, and Buffalo, Wyoming, federal tracts violated the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) by failing to account fully for the damage the coal, oil and gas would do to the environment, including the climate.

These anti-hydrocarbon policies also mean the U.S. Treasury will be deprived of hundreds of billions of dollars in lease bonuses, royalties, taxes and other revenues that it would realize from the development of our nation's vast oil, natural gas and coal deposits.

The vast majority of our electricity comes from dirty, non-renewable sources like coal, oil and natural gas.

Developing America's vast domestic oil, natural gas, coal and shale gas deposits will generate millions of jobs and hundreds of billions of dollars in critically needed royalty and tax revenue.

Mark Carney, the FSB chair stated that a carbon budget consistent with a 2 °C target «would render the vast majority of reserves «stranded» — oil, gas and coal that will be literally unburnable without expensive carbon capture technology, which itself alters fossil fuel economics»

«The amount of solar energy reaching the surface of the planet is so vast that in one year it is about twice as much as will ever be obtained from all of the Earth's non-renewable resources of coal, oil, natural gas, and mined uranium combined.»

It could liquefy the vast deposits of coal, oil shale and tar sands that were readily available in North America.

Fossil fuel companies hold vast oil, gas and coal reserves that help determine their market value.

However, when the oil and gas and coal industries start pulling their vast wealth out of the coffers of big banking, what will the banking industry have left?

The carbon dioxide that is building in the atmosphere, at least in part, gets there through human emissions of carbon dioxide that are the by - product of burning fossil fuels (coal, oil, natural gas) to produce the vast majority the energy that has powered mankind's industrial and technical ascent since the Industrial Revolution.

Faith leaders have stood up to corporate polluters time and again to defend our region from dirty coal and oil projects that make vast profits while harming our communities and dirtying our air, water, land, and climate.

Thanks to the lobbying work of the coal and oil companies, and the vast army of thinktanks, PR consultants and astroturfers they have sponsored, thanks too to the domination of the airwaves by loony right shock jocks, the debate over issues like this has become so mad that any progress at all is little short of a miracle.

Carbon taxes pose an existential threat to the development of North America's vast coal, oil, and natural gas deposits — one of the few bright spots in the economy.

Fossil fuels — coal, oil and, natural gas — are major contributors to climate change, accounting for the vast majority of greenhouse gas emissions.

Government and industry must decide whether to invest vast sums, of the order of hundreds, perhaps even thousands of billions of dollars in production of synthetic liquid fuels from coal or oil shale, an equally expensive and widely unpopular alternative is construction of many new nuclear fission plants for generation of electricity or production of secondary fuels.

(There's also a vast commercial struggle between coal and Big Oil which involves green posturing by Big Oil which likes the idea of its products «supplementing» and helping with «transitions» — but we'll stick with the geo - politics for now.)

If you were in the business of being a coal, oil, and manufacturing tycoon, chances are you'd be making the same moves — using a tiny sliver of your vast wealth to protect the forces that would prevent that wealth from becoming even more vast.

Vast quantities of coal — proven to exist — remain in the ground — but not included on the reserve tally because they are not economically recoverable at current prices — in part due to the availability of oil and natural gas.

[7][8] The vast majority of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions (i.e., emissions produced by human activities) come from combustion of fossil fuels, principally coal, oil, and natural gas, with comparatively modest additional contributions coming from deforestation, changes in land use, soil erosion, and agriculture.