Sentences with phrase «where oil and coal»

For a country where oil and coal use have been growing for more than a century, the fall since 2007 is startling.

Not exact matches

While manufacturing has shown a little weakness, the biggest difference by far is in mining — and that's where the Oil patch weakness shows up, as well as coal and metals production for export (recall how awful rail and steel have been in the Weekly Indicators for the last 4 months).

Trump will then fly to Beijing where, according to senior administration officials, he will try to convince a reluctant President Xi Jinping to squeeze North Korea further with steps such as limits on oil exports, coal imports and financial transactions.

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

I would like to share with you the work of our senior economist Marc Lee, who heads up our Climate Justice Project, as well as the work of one of our research associates, veteran earth scientist David Hughes (who spent 32 years working for the Geological Survey of Canada, where he focused on unconventional gas, coal and oil research).

Instead of regulating carbon at the many smokestacks where emissions occur, the group recommends regulating by cap - and - trade permits directed «upstream» at the wellheads, mine mouths, and import points where oil, coal, and natural gas enter the economy.

The Lackawanna Hotel, where we spent the night, occupies a grand old train station that used to bustle with passenger traffic but fell moribund when the city's star faded along with Pennsylvania coal and oil production.

There's scant evidence that well - meaning efforts to raise public awareness and will around the climate challenge will engender willingness to abandon the fuels of convenience — coal and oil — particularly where expanded energy use matters most, in the fast - growing nations of the developing world.

Of course, the energy mix used also matters — emissions vary depending on where the solar modules are made, perhaps also where nuclear fuel is mined, how far oil and coal must be transported, etc..

It's all the more reason that developed countries have to innovate renewables and get them to the point where they can provide energy cheaper than oil or coal.

But how much more can be accomplished administratively is unclear, which is why the prese ce of a clear and present signal that raises the cost of emitting carbon (starting from where oil, gas, and coal are dug up) is so important to cover all the bases.

One challenge will be finding ways to spread this kind of efficiency ethic into other arenas, like energy, where ready sources — like coal and oil — remain abundant and cheap (in monetary terms) but pose long - term environmental risks.

The emissions from our exports of coal, gas and oil are counted in the country where they burned.

Backing out fossil fuels begins with the electricity sector, where the development of 5,153 gigawatts of new renewable generating capacity by 2020, over half of it from wind, would be more than enough to replace all the coal and oil and 70 percent of the natural gas now used to generate electricity.

And, finally, in contrast to investments in oil fields and coal mines, where depletion and abandonment are inevitable, the new energy sources are inexhaustibAnd, finally, in contrast to investments in oil fields and coal mines, where depletion and abandonment are inevitable, the new energy sources are inexhaustiband coal mines, where depletion and abandonment are inevitable, the new energy sources are inexhaustiband abandonment are inevitable, the new energy sources are inexhaustible.

Carbon Tracker's modelling has shown that CCS is likely to be prohibitively expensive to significantly extend the demand profiles for coal, oil and gas, particularly in the power sector where increasingly cheap alternatives are available.

Fossil fuel power plants like oil, coal, and gas not only pollute but must have a constant delivery of fuel, which can be a challenge where transportation and pipeline infrastructure is underdeveloped.

The economics means that the oil price will go up as demand exceeds supply and at that point we will turn to less likely sources of oil, such as the tar sands, but eventually we will reach a point where converting coal to the usual oil products, such as chemicals and gasoline, will be a more economically viable route.

This study completes the research series on oil and coal started in 2014 and takes a look at three global gas markets — Europe, North America and LNG — in the context of the energy transition, examining where there may be unneeded capacity and capital expenditure in a low demand scenario.

Where has he been the past decade when the Bush White House essentially had oil and coal executives on speed dial?

«Their new book is a chilling description of greed, conflicts of interest and the oil and coal industries» shenanigans; it picks up where other books, like Ross Gelbspan's «The Heat Is On» (1997) and «Boiling Point» (2004), left off.»

That is where our enormous reserves of coal and oil actually came from.

A big part of that is the United States, where fuel economy standards have reversed oil consumption trends — and renewable energy, efficiency, and natural gas have cut U.S. coal consumption.

But such an action would effectively change the subject to the campaign of deception practiced by the coal, gas, and oil companies... We had the case where people said, «What if you screw up RICO?»

Burning fossil fuels like coal and oil to produce energy is where the majority of greenhouse gases originate.

• Fossil 2009 — Fossil fuel energy consumption (% of total) in 2009 where fossil fuel comprises coal, oil, petroleum, and natural gas products.

We assumed only that due to the biological and physical effects the ratio fabsorbed (t) / (total CO2 content of then air) is more or less constant, hence a simple response pulse response exp -LRB-- t / lifetime) is applied to the anthropic time series of coal, gas, oil and cement which have different delta13C As the isotopic signature of (CO2 natural)(t) is slowly decreasing because plants living days or centuries ago are now rotting and degassing and as molecules entered in the ocean decades ago are now in the upwellings after a slow migration along the equal density surface from the high latitudes where those surface are surfacing at depth zero, there are common sense constraints or bounds on the possible evolution of the delta13C of the natural out - gassed CO2 molecules.

In total, the power company has about 8.3 GW of coal, oil and gas - fired resources currently available, so this would mean a 44 % reduction in its fossil capacity, and a fleet where wind and solar represent a majority of capacity, if not necessarily generation.

It's a stretch when Canada is building pipelines and the U.S. is shipping coal to China that's too dirty to be used in America; where Scotland is basing independence on new North Sea oil finds.

This will hopefully lead to utility - scale renewables finally finding purchase in states where the finances simply were not appealing when compared to tax breaks the utilities could get for developing coal, oil and gas.

He takes the peat from the bog, or the oil from the underground oil field, or the coal from the sedimentary rocks; brings it to the surface where oxygen is plentiful, and causes it to react with oxygen there.

The tobacco industry was caught red - handed with a secret memo strategy saying «doubt was their product ``; catch skeptic climate scientists in a similar conspiracy with Big Coal & Oil where the strategy is to «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact» and you'll have the public so outraged that they will never trust a word those skeptics have to say.

In a statement issued Wednesday, 14 corporations that include oil leader Royal Dutch Shell, coal miners BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto, cement maker LafargeHolcim, and technology giants HP and Intel pushed for the United Nations Climate Change conference in Paris, France, this December, where almost 200 nations will agree to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and address climate change.

She was speaking weeks after the Republican - controlled Legislature made Wyoming, where coal and oil are king, the first state to reject the standards, which include lessons on human impact on global warming.

The judges unanimously condemned the continued financial support of investments in coal, oil, gas and nuclear, that continue to wreak havoc on the environment and the communities where these investments are made, and issued the following judgement:

In Ohio, where Sierra Club and other anti-nuclear groups chose coal over nuclear in the 1970s, nuclear plants pay over ten times more in taxes per unit of energy than oil and gas producers, and are excluded from the state's renewable portfolio standard.

The first link in my article takes readers to a prior one where I show how the very same Sheldon Rampton appeared before a US House hearing and regurgitated an accusation phrase against skeptic scientists that was made famous by anti-skeptic book author Ross Gelbspan and the enviro - advocacy group Ozone Action in 1996 - 7 — these people have every appearance of being the epicenter of the accusation that skeptic scientists operate under a coal / oil industry directive to fabricate false assessments in exchange for mega-millions...... an accusation that has no evidence to support it that I can find, and its central piece of evidence is a 1991 coal industry memo that no one is allowed to see in its complete context.

Gore is entitled to put his money where his mouth is — just as oil and coal company executives are.

I am also interested to know what happens when we burn ALL the oil, and natural gas and coal (depending on the low oil supply and high oil supply theories) as opposed to just what happens in 2100 this defines the magnitude of the potential threat and allows us to define exactly where our line in the sand is.

By virtue of Peak Oil having been passed (where supply can not raise in response to demand) and coal being a terrible source of energy.

Plus, the need for more coal - fired or nuclear generation (see below for details) will have impacts far outside the immediate areas where oil shale projects are underway; and,

NG would seem to be the best feed - stock for ammonia, keep wind power electricity for re-charging EVs and heat pumps where it can replace a lot more oil, coal and NG.

In 2013, Bill McKibben wrote his piece in Rolling Stone «Global Warming's Terrifying New Math,» where he showed that if we burned all the coal, gas and oil that was in reserve on fossil fuel companies» balance sheets, we'd be Venus.

Mr. Sweeney, who advises clients on a broad range of U.S. domestic and international oil and gas, coal, and other natural resource, infrastructure and finance transactions, comes to Akin Gump from K&L Gates, where he was a partner.

Climate - related litigation is a reality, particularly in the United States where action has been taken against private companies, administrative decisions and government agencies... In relation to the impacts on Indigenous peoples, in February 2008 the Alaskan native village of Kivalina filed a lawsuit against a number of oil, coal and power companies for their contribution to global warming and the impacts on homes and country disappearing into the Chukchi Sea.