• A study into the life-cycle greenhouse emissions of Australia's energy sources by consultancy WorleyParsons found conventional gas from large offshore wells typically produced 38 per cent less greenhouse emissions than black coal, largely because it burnt more cleanly. (smh.com.au)
  • fugitive emissions could make coal seam gas as dirty a fuel as black coal, report says. (smh.com.au)
  • So-called ''fugitive emissions'', particularly of methane, which is a much more powerful greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, can tip the balance and make coal seam gas as dirty a fuel source as black coal burnt in ageing power plants, the report says. (smh.com.au)
  • The Australian Coal Association chief executive, Nikki Williams, said the research highlighted the importance of carbon capture and storage to cut emissions. (smh.com.au)
  • Australian coal miners will join the US department of energy in funding work that will investigate whether a pioneering gas-fired power generator in Texas with near zero greenhouse gas emissions can be converted to run on coal. (afr.com)
  • the combuster will gasify coal at the start of the process, with the hope of creating emissions-free electricity and hydrogen from coal. (afr.com)
  • Natural gas possesses a cleaner image, fostered by its release of less emissions. (eenews.net)
  • Nevertheless, continued funding for gas has exposed tensions in moving to a zero-emissions economy, with many utilities saying solar and wind energy remain unreliable and the technology for storage is still too expensive. (eenews.net)
  • These are large assets with a long lifetime, and if we're going to invest in a whole bunch of natural gas infrastructure, it's not super-realistic to think that's going to disappear in 10 or 15 years when we decide we're going to cut emissions further,' Orvis said. (eenews.net)
  • The Department of Energy agrees with Berkley Earth that "the transition from coal to natural gas for electricity generation has probably been the single largest contributor to the … largely unexpected decline in U.S. CO2 emissions. (dailycaller.com)
  • 1. The overwhelming scientific evidence of anthropogenic global heating demands that each state and nation substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions and transition away from fossil fuels to a carbon negative energy economy. (greens.org.au)
  • 2. Queensland, as a major coal producer, user and exporter, has a particular responsibility to phase out the use of thermal coal and urgently begin the transition to a low emissions and energy efficient economy. (greens.org.au)
  • 4. Coal Seam Gas (CSG) is not a 'clean transition' fuel because of the potential for substantial fugitive methane emissions associated with extraction and distribution. (greens.org.au)
  • During the transition to a low carbon emissions economy, the nation's energy and metallurgical needs can be satisfied by existing coal mines. (greens.org.au)
  • Over a period to several years CRE has conducted an extensive public outreach program to develop a science based program for addressing emissions from new coal fired plants. (thecre.com)
  • Japan's public finances are flowing into the fossil fuel projects responsible for this destruction rather than going towards financing the loss and damage caused by its own greenhouse gas emissions," it said. (japantimes.co.jp)
  • Our findings show that while there are public health benefits from reducing coal emissions, gas, biomass, and wood are not clean or healthy alternative energy sources. (harvard.edu)
  • Energy infrastructure built today could operate for decades-locking in their health impacts along with greenhouse gas emissions. (harvard.edu)
  • Dr James Price and Dr Steve Pye (both UCL Bartlett School Environment, Energy & Resources) warn in The Conversation that as numerous countries rely on coal for power, oil and gas need to be phased out quickly to keep carbon emissions below catastrophic climate change levels. (ucl.ac.uk)
  • We wanted to go out and collect some of the first data on some of the new types of operations underway in natural gas production and what the methane emissions are," says David Allen, an engineering professor at the University of Texas in Austin. (wxpr.org)
  • His conclusion: Currently the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency greatly overestimates methane emissions from a new well that is being prepared to produce gas for the first time. (wxpr.org)
  • They're finding methane emissions that are 10 to 20 times higher than this new study," Howarth says, "and I think [that's] probably more representative of at least those western gas fields, when industry does not realize it's being watched. (wxpr.org)
  • China, the biggest coal consumer and producer in the world, is struggling to increase coal production and to whip up its imports to meet the demand amid the growing emissions. (aa.com.tr)
  • Energy sector is responsible for 90% of China's global greenhouse gas emissions, according to International Energy Agency data. (aa.com.tr)
  • given the radical reduction in emissions required within two decades, it [UK shale gas] would risk being a major distraction from transitioning to a genuine zero-carbon grid. (bellaciao.org)
  • A new peer-reviewed analysis in the journal Environmental Research Letters finds that when even small amounts of methane escape from natural gas wells, production facilities and pipelines, it can drive up the industry's emissions to equal the effects of coal. (wglt.org)
  • We find that very small methane leakage rates from gas systems rival coal's greenhouse gas emissions," said Deborah Gordon, co-author of the analysis and a senior principal at the environmental group RMI, formerly Rocky Mountain Institute. (wglt.org)
  • Carbon dioxide emissions from power plants in the U.S. have fallen about 35% since 2005, largely because of the shift from coal to gas. (wglt.org)
  • The U.S. natural gas and oil industry is leading the world in advancing innovative technology to better detect and reduce methane emissions, and U.S. methane emissions intensity are amongst the lowest of any major-producing nation," wrote Dustin Meyer of the American Petroleum Institute, in a statement. (wglt.org)
  • Greenhouse gas data, voluntary reporting, electric power plant emissions. (eia.gov)
  • According to climatologist Dr. Patrick Michaels, it's "the good old USA, and that's because we've been substituting natural gas for coal for power generation" as can be seen in the top chart above, which shows that CO2 emissions from electric power generation in the US last year were the lowest in 28 years, going all the way back to 1988. (climatedepot.com)
  • Solid waste disposal sites account for up to 20% of global emissions of methane the second most significant greenhouse gas. (lu.se)
  • Colombia exports coal from La Guajira Peninsula and the lower Magdalena River basin south of Barranquilla, and Argentina has limited quantities of good-quality coal at El Turbio in the extreme south. (britannica.com)
  • Surging production of natural gas in the U.S. has facilitated an increase in LNG exports, despite a 10 percent jump in U.S. natural gas consumption in 2018. (worldbank.org)
  • The oil and gas sector represents approximately 70% of Timor's gross domestic product (GDP) and more than 90% of total exports, as well as more than 80% of the state's annual revenues. (businesswire.com)
  • DIW Berlin: The U.S. Coal Sector between Shale Gas and Renewables: Last Resort Coal Exports? (diw.de)
  • Australia is the world's biggest coal exporter and a major exporter of liquid natural gas (LNG) but the simple expedient of roughly halving Australia's GHG pollution by banning coal and LNG exports is completely off the national agenda. (bellaciao.org)
  • CONSOL Energy Inc.is weathering weak domestic demand for coal by increasing exports through Baltimore,according to FBR & Co., which maintained an "outperform" rating forthe coal and natural gas company. (spglobal.com)
  • When will renewable energy overtake coal and gas? (weforum.org)
  • Thousands of Australians including farmers on horseback rallied in the heart of Sydney yesterday, calling on authorities to ditch coal and gas mining developments in rural regions in favour of renewable energy projects. (gulf-times.com)
  • But the bank will consider financing natural gas projects under certain conditions, including as backup systems for renewable energy grids. (eenews.net)
  • But he said the gas-fired combustion turbines being proposed would help TVA meet power demand peaks during hot summer days or cold winter nights, especially when the sun doesn't shine or the wind doesn't blow for renewable energy generation. (timesfreepress.com)
  • Instead of spending hundreds of millions of dollars on new gas plants, TVA should accelerate plans to build new renewable energy and invest in battery storage and other clean technologies. (timesfreepress.com)
  • Already competitive with electricity produced by coal and natural gas-fired power plants, GE is driving the cost of clean, green, renewable energy down further. (cleantechnica.com)
  • Burning gas and biomass have significant health impacts and should be replaced with clean renewable energy sources. (harvard.edu)
  • One of the major challenges of our time is replacing fossil fuels such as oil, coal and gas with renewable energy sources such as solar and wind power. (lu.se)
  • Gas works would typically use oily bituminous coals as feedstock. (wikipedia.org)
  • Activated carbons for natural gas storage were produced from Illinois bituminous coals (IBC-102 and IBC-106) and scrap tires by physical activation with steam or CO2 and by chemical activation with KOH, H3PO4, or ZnCl2. (usgs.gov)
  • The Bureau of Mines has developed a prototype nonincendive explosive rock-breaker charge that can be fired unconfined in underground bituminous coal mines without the danger of igniting a flammable atmosphere that might be present. (cdc.gov)
  • Town gas is a more general term referring to manufactured gaseous fuels produced for sale to consumers and municipalities. (wikipedia.org)
  • The production process differs from other methods used to generate gaseous fuels known variously as manufactured gas, syngas, Dowson gas, and producer gas. (wikipedia.org)
  • But investments in natural gas continue to rise, stirring debate about whether the world is shifting away from fossil fuels fast enough to prevent dangerous warming. (eenews.net)
  • But the battleground over fossil fuels is shifting, and gas is increasingly being seen as a threat to global climate goals. (eenews.net)
  • At a global level, some development groups and political officials argue that countries still striving to provide basic electrification shouldn't be prohibited from using gas as an alternative to higher-emitting fuels like coal. (eenews.net)
  • BRUSSELS/OSLO-The European Union will temporarily shift back to coal to cope with dwindling Russian gas flows without derailing longer term climate goals, an EU official said on Wednesday as a tight gas market and soaring prices set off a race for alternative fuels. (theepochtimes.com)
  • Despite opposition from some environmental groups against continuing to burn fossil fuels, the Tennessee Valley Authority is proposing to replace aging gas plants in Memphis and New Johnsonville, Tennessee, with new gas-fired combustion turbines in Kentucky and Alabama. (timesfreepress.com)
  • The Japanese government is making huge efforts to export false solutions" such as coal-fired power plants to other countries despite the international trend to end investment in fossil fuels, the Climate Action Network said during the 27th session of a U.N. climate conference in Egypt. (japantimes.co.jp)
  • To that end, the EU will roll out a package of measures next week aiming to buffer the short-term impact of a disruption to Russian gas supply and accelerate the transition away from fossil fuels altogether. (politico.eu)
  • One "near-term option" would be to switch from gas power through "increased use of Europe's coal-fired fleet or by using alternative fuels, such as oil, within existing gas-fired power plants," it said. (politico.eu)
  • After all, coal is the most carbon-rich of all fossil fuels and its combustion has contributed the most to planetary warming. (ucl.ac.uk)
  • Here, large fleets of power stations and factories rely on coal which is cheap and abundant compared to other fossil fuels. (ucl.ac.uk)
  • And second, as this is the case, other fossil fuels, namely oil and gas, must be phased out more rapidly to compensate for coal's slower exit. (ucl.ac.uk)
  • We compared how much coal use is expected to fall in modelled pathways to 1.5°C with the fastest power transitions that have taken place over the last 50 years, with all fuels and in all countries. (ucl.ac.uk)
  • YellowPages.ca provides complete contact information about Oil, coal, fuels & natural gases businesses within our Industrial supplies & services category in and about the Pitt Meadows, British-Columbia area. (yellowpages.ca)
  • Discover user reviewed Oil, coal, fuels & natural gases businesses near Pitt Meadows. (yellowpages.ca)
  • In a new publication in Nature Communications, a team from the Dutch company Syngaschem BV and the Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research elucidates for the first time some aspects of the Fischer-Tropsch reaction, used for converting synthesis gas into synthetic fuels. (lu.se)
  • However, in NSW the state government recently imposed a 60-day moratorium on new coal, petroleum and coal seam gas exploration licences. (greenleft.org.au)
  • To date, the call for a moratorium on coal seam gas exploration has been taken up by the Lismore, Byron and Murwillumbah councils. (directaction.org.au)
  • Researchers included in their calculations one counterintuitive effect of burning coal - it releases sulfur dioxide, which produces particles that reflect sunlight and actually reduce warming (sulfur dioxide pollution also can lead to heart and lung problems ). (wglt.org)
  • Many types of gases-such as chlorine, phosgene, sulfur dioxide, hydrogen sulfide, nitrogen dioxide, and ammonia-may suddenly be released during industrial accidents and may severely irritate the lungs. (msdmanuals.com)
  • The Lock the Gate Alliance, which brings together hundreds of community groups and individuals concerned about coal seam gas, continues to advocate an immediate moratorium on coal mining and coal seam gas projects pending a full inquiry. (greenleft.org.au)
  • To cope with gas shortfalls, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said Europe must replace Russian energy supplies while boosting efficiency and renewables, including nuclear power. (theepochtimes.com)
  • The sources of TVA's electricity generation have shifted over the past decade and a half away from coal toward more natural gas and nuclear power. (timesfreepress.com)
  • The fact is that nuclear power has been touted as the most likely alternative or clean energy source to replace coal and gas-fired electricity generation. (windpowerengineering.com)
  • Climate and Economy Minister Robert Habeck on Sunday did not rule out delaying the country's coal and nuclear phaseouts, telling German public television that there were "no taboos. (politico.eu)
  • For example, Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy requires infrastructure robust to loss of the inertia prevalent in conventional power plants, such as coal, gas, and nuclear power. (lu.se)
  • In advanced economies, demand for coal declined in favor of natural gas, particularly for electricity generation. (worldbank.org)
  • The ongoing shift away from coal to natural gas in electricity generation is expected to continue. (worldbank.org)
  • Together, those 45 power plants emitted 28% of all greenhouse gases from electricity generation nationwide, while generating only 11% of the nation's power. (environmentamerica.org)
  • Natural gas consumption in electricity generation grew due to increasing air conditioner usage and lower hydro and wind inventories around the globe and particularly in Europe. (aa.com.tr)
  • The growing share of natural gas in electricity generation in Europe and also in the UK drove the electricity prices to record levels, particularly in September. (aa.com.tr)
  • Despite the emission reductions efforts and carbon pricing on electricity generation from coal, the demand for coal also saw an increase in Europe where coal futures surged by 265% reaching $200 per tonnes in the API2 Rotterdam Coal Futures. (aa.com.tr)
  • Global financiers are turning away from coal projects, but not natural gas power plants. (eenews.net)
  • These gases are made by partial combustion of a wide variety of feedstocks in some mixture of air, oxygen, or steam, to reduce the latter to hydrogen and carbon monoxide although some destructive distillation may also occur. (wikipedia.org)
  • In a draft environmental assessment of its energy options released this week, TVA is proposing to build six new natural gas combustion turbines with a combined generating capacity of 1,500 megawatts at its former Paradise coal plant in Kentucky and its shuttered Colbert coal plant in Alabama within the next three years. (timesfreepress.com)
  • Both of those plants already have natural gas-fired generators and the gas-fired peaking plants, which are designed to be used to help meet power demand peaks, will replace aging combustion turbines TVA is shutting down at its Allen plant in Memphis and its New Johnsonville plant west of Nashville. (timesfreepress.com)
  • TVA said closing the gas combustion turbines at Allen would cost eight jobs in Memphis and shutting down Johnsonville would cost 28 jobs. (timesfreepress.com)
  • Other compositions contain additional calorific gases such as methane, produced by the Fischer-Tropsch process, and volatile hydrocarbons together with small quantities of non-calorific gases such as carbon dioxide and nitrogen. (wikipedia.org)
  • But the Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute reported last month that the technology could capture 97 per cent of the carbon dioxide at a price that was about 22 per cent higher than a typical gas-fired power station. (afr.com)
  • Methane (CH4) is a major greenhouse gas (GHG) that on a 100 year time scale has a relative global warming potential (GWP) that is 25 times that of carbon dioxide (CO2). (bellaciao.org)
  • Natural gas has long been considered a more climate-friendly alternative to coal, as gas-fired power plants generally release less carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than their coal-fired counterparts. (wglt.org)
  • Methane is a more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, though it doesn't stay in the atmosphere as long. (wglt.org)
  • The illuminating power of a gas was related to amount of soot-forming hydrocarbons ("illuminants") dissolved in it. (wikipedia.org)
  • The $US5 million ($6.7 million) investment by the coal industry's research and development body, LETA, adds to the hype around a power generation technology called the Allam-Fetvedt cycle, which has been shown in trials to generate electricity from gas with dramatically lower pollution. (afr.com)
  • The Allam-Fetvedt cycle is different from a normal gas-fired power station in several ways, including the fact it burns gas in pure oxygen rather than air. (afr.com)
  • unlike normal power stations that burn gas in air. (afr.com)
  • If so and if he is anti-coal then he and other environmentalists (of which i am one) need to realise that what the carbon price will do is ENCOURAGE a swap from coal to gas in power generation. (greenleft.org.au)
  • You need peaking power supplied by gas-fired power generation to smooth out the supply from renewables like solar and wind. (greenleft.org.au)
  • The latest move comes from the Asian Development Bank, which has a draft energy policy that proposes ending financing for new coal power plants and mining. (eenews.net)
  • It may not rival the newest iPad for cool technology, but the power generation industry is embracing pragmatism as low-cost natural gas from shale resources turns the dispatch order on its head. (powermag.com)
  • The challenges posed by natural gas, as well as forecasts for electric power demand for the next 25 years, were the primary focuses of attention during the 2012 Keynote Session and Roundtable Discussion during ELECTRIC POWER, which was held in Baltimore from May 14 to 16. (powermag.com)
  • COLLEGE PARK, Md. - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Thursday proposed new limits on carbon pollution from coal- and gas-burning power plants. (environmentamerica.org)
  • Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands have signaled that coal-fired power plants could plug supply gaps, even as Germany gears up to host a Group of Seven (G-7) summit having reaffirmed a commitment to ambitious climate change goals. (theepochtimes.com)
  • America's biggest public electric utility is turning more to natural gas to generate power. (timesfreepress.com)
  • Italy's Prime Minister Mario Draghi told the country's lawmakers last week that "coal-fired power plants may need to be reopened to fill any shortcomings in the short term" as a consequence of Russian aggression in Ukraine. (politico.eu)
  • Coal-fired power plants will have to be used more instead," Robert Habeck said in a statement on Sunday. (aljazeera.com)
  • The economy will shrink further, lowering power demand, and coal-powered generation will be preferentially reduced given low gas prices. (crugroup.com)
  • Based on modelled pathways from the IPCC, we estimate that coal power will have to be phased out in India, China and South Africa more than twice as fast as any historical power transition for electricity systems of comparable size. (ucl.ac.uk)
  • The PPCA favour a differentiated timeline for exiting coal power, with rich countries going first by 2030 and the rest of the world by 2050. (ucl.ac.uk)
  • Reasons are mostly unfavorable economic conditions for coal, including competition from natural gas and renewables in the power sector, as well as an aging coal- fired power plant fleet. (diw.de)
  • The U.S. Energy Information Administration as well as most models of North American energy markets depict continuously high shares of coal-fired power generation over the next decades in their current policies scenarios. (diw.de)
  • We project considerably lower near-term coal use for power generation in the U.S. This has significant effects on coal production and mining employment. (diw.de)
  • In China which meets around 60% of its electricity demand from coal burning electricity plants, the coal shortage led to country-wide power cuts as part of the government's precautions to manage the lack of power, leaving around 100 million people in dark. (aa.com.tr)
  • Using this information it can be readily estimated that gas burning for power can be much dirtier GHG-wise than coal burning. (bellaciao.org)
  • And now, in another extraordinary absurdity, the Australian Government variously declares that "gas is clean" or "gas is cleaner" and wants a Carbon Tax strategy that it believes will hasten a coal burning to gas burning transition, ignoring the latest science that says that gas burning for power can be much dirtier GHG-wise than coal burning. (bellaciao.org)
  • The transaction announced today builds upon this presence and provides a basis for each party to work together to accelerate the development of the region and a range of commercialisation opportunities, including domestic gas supply, power generation and future LNG options. (santos.com)
  • Mr Knox said the development of NSW's abundant coal seam gas resources presented an exciting opportunity to deliver "carbon light" gas fired power generation. (santos.com)
  • Ontario has announced plans to build new polluting gas power plants to provide electricity for the province. (coalwatch.ca)
  • The IESO, the provincial government organization in charge of regulating power, has concluded that the only option to fulfill rising electricity demand is to construct additional gas plants. (coalwatch.ca)
  • The federal government is actively developing Clean Electricity Regulations to phase out harmful gas power. (coalwatch.ca)
  • China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology reports that the country's coal output rose 8.7 percent from 2010 to reach 3.88 billion short tons last year. (richardheinberg.com)
  • That finding holds even if leaks amount to a tiny fraction of the methane in the country's gas production and supply system, as low as 0.2%, according to the researchers. (wglt.org)
  • The Narrabri project, which is fiercely opposed by environmentalists because of risks to water and land resources, could supply up to half of the gas needs of NSW, which currently imports 96 per cent of its requirements and where manufacturers are struggling with price hikes. (afr.com)
  • Seaborne prices have also been affected by China's decision to curb imports of coal from Australia, its biggest supplier. (worldbank.org)
  • The EU and other developed economies have imposed sanctions on Russian oil and coal but held off banning gas imports. (theepochtimes.com)
  • On Thursday, the International Energy Agency released an analysis finding Europe could cut Russian natural gas imports by more than one-third within a year. (politico.eu)
  • imports half of its hard coal from Russia. (politico.eu)
  • Asian countries, particularly Japan, increased its liquified natural gas (LNG) imports to meet the demand which brought the Japan Korean Marker (JKM) benchmark to $32 per million British thermal units (BTU) in January 2021, a dramatic jump from its levels which was down at around $1.8 per million BTU during the first half of 2020. (aa.com.tr)
  • Many environmentalists argue that gas is little cleaner than coal and urge governments to encourage a quicker switch to renewables such as solar and wind energy. (smh.com.au)
  • But many in the energy sector argue a swift transition to renewables is unrealistic and gas - including coal seam gas - is needed as a stepping stone. (smh.com.au)
  • Non-renewables such as coal and gas are Australia's primary fuel source for generating electricity, although renewable generation has been rising in recent years. (gulf-times.com)
  • Angela Macdonald-Smith writes on the resources industry with a focus on energy, including gas, oil, electricity and renewables. (afr.com)
  • Countries could 'stay longer with coal' before switching to renewables to avoid relying on gas, says Frans Timmermans. (politico.eu)
  • The EU, and many of its member countries, have strongly backed natural gas as a stepping stone as it seeks to cut the use of coal, the most polluting fossil fuel, and move toward renewables. (politico.eu)
  • Poland and several other countries had plans to transit out of coal, and then temporarily use natural gas and then move to renewables. (politico.eu)
  • If they stay longer with coal, but then immediately moved to renewables, it could still be within the parameters we set for our climate policy," he said. (politico.eu)
  • Timmermans said that while some countries might seek to burn coal now, the response should "not slow down our transition to renewables, because that's what we need to avert the other mortal danger we are facing, which is the climate crisis. (politico.eu)
  • These coals would give off large amounts of volatile hydrocarbons into the coal gas, but would leave behind a crumbly, low-quality coke not suitable for metallurgical processes. (wikipedia.org)
  • China alone is now responsible for just about half of the world's coal consumption, which amounts to nearly 8 billion short tons. (richardheinberg.com)
  • The Sierra Club said among the 50 biggest U.S. utilities, TVA had the second biggest increase planned in new natural gas production at more than 3 gigawatts of capacity in its long-range plans and TVA continued to have one of the largest amounts of coal-fired generation planned after 2030. (timesfreepress.com)
  • Historically, in locations where gas for lighting and heating was manufactured from coal or oil, large amounts of PAHs existed and may still exist as waste deposits. (cdc.gov)
  • In some people, inhalation of small amounts of gas or other chemicals over a long period may result in chronic bronchitis (inflammation of the airways). (msdmanuals.com)
  • Coke plants are typically associated with metallurgical facilities such as smelters or blast furnaces, while gas works typically served urban areas. (wikipedia.org)
  • When asked during the Roundtable Session to list the top three things that keep him up at night, Mansour responded, "operating existing plants in new operating modes," referring to the need for coal-fired plants to become more flexible now that gas-fired plants enjoy a competitive price advantage and the fact that wind energy largely enjoys "must-take" contracts. (powermag.com)
  • At some point, the U.S. will build new coal plants," he predicted. (powermag.com)
  • Many coal and some gas plants will need to reduce or capture the vast majority of the carbon they produce once the standards take full effect in the 2030s. (environmentamerica.org)
  • The proposal allows more pollution from some coal plants and smaller or intermittently running gas plants. (environmentamerica.org)
  • We've made a lot of progress cleaning up our air, but coal and gas plants still do serious damage to our health and the worst ones contribute more to climate change than some whole states do. (environmentamerica.org)
  • is one of 11 coal plants where TVA says it is spending $5 billion to clean up. (timesfreepress.com)
  • New gas plants carry far too many economic risks from storage technologies, environmental regulations, and commodity prices to be a good long-term strategy. (timesfreepress.com)
  • Sierra Club gave TVA an "F" grade for its plans to retire coal, construct new gas plants and build new clean energy. (timesfreepress.com)
  • Researchers examined the impact on mortality of tiny particles of pollution called PM2.5 that are emitted outdoors at stationary sources like coal plants, gas plants, industrial boilers, buildings (commercial and residential), and other industries up the oil and gas supply chain. (harvard.edu)
  • According to the government, it has no alternative but to build additional gas plants. (coalwatch.ca)
  • All of these would be far less expensive than building new gas plants. (coalwatch.ca)
  • Despite this, the IESO is currently desperately attempting to build new gas plants under the guidance of the Ontario government. (coalwatch.ca)
  • The real kicker, however, is that the Ontario government is telling new gas plant operators that they would continue to be paid even if the gas plants are forced to close. (coalwatch.ca)
  • Before World War II, more than 1,000 coal gasification plants are estimated to have existed throughout the midwestern and eastern United States [Environmental Research and Technology 1984]. (cdc.gov)
  • These plants began to phase out in the early 1950s when the use of interstate natural gas pipelines became more prominent. (cdc.gov)
  • Workers at coal-tar produc- pyrene, is classified as carcino- sene, 3-methylchrysene, 4-methyl- tion plants, coking plants, bitumen genic to humans (Group 1). (who.int)
  • The announcement of new liquefied natural gas projects set a record in 2019, reflecting the 'relative abundance of natural gas in the world' and a view among investors that gas is 'relatively resilient' to more ambitious climate scenarios, according to the International Energy Agency. (eenews.net)
  • Coal supply investments also rose in 2019, though that's largely because of an expanding footprint in China. (eenews.net)
  • Coal prices fell 7.6 percent in the first quarter of 2019 (q/q) following steep declines in the second half of 2018. (worldbank.org)
  • Coal prices are expected to partially recover from their current levels and average $94/mt in 2019, a 12.1 percent decline from 2018, reflecting the weakness in natural gas prices, as well as muted demand. (worldbank.org)
  • Japan was given an infamous "fossil" award by an international environmental group Wednesday for being the world's biggest public financier of oil, gas and coal projects. (japantimes.co.jp)
  • Brazil produces relatively small quantities of coal in its southern states, while areas in northwestern Venezuela and south of Concepción in Chile also have coal mines that once supplied fuel for steamships. (britannica.com)
  • Our farms are being ruined, our food bowls have no water, they have drill pads or coal mines in the middle of their farms," Clare Twomey, one of the co-founders of Knitting Nannas Against Gas, said. (gulf-times.com)
  • 2. Phase out existing thermal coal mines and coal export, while ensuring that existing mine workers have access to retraining and employment in the emerging sustainable economy. (greens.org.au)
  • 3. Oppose the development of any new coal mines or the expansion of existing coal mines. (greens.org.au)
  • 5. Oppose development consent and export licences for all new coal mines. (greens.org.au)
  • 8. Work to ensure that the operations of existing coal mines conform to the world's best practices in industrial relations for mineworkers, occupational health and mine safety, environmental protection, and are designed to minimise impacts on local communities including noise, dust and amenity. (greens.org.au)
  • An experimental degasification program using a vertical borehole and vacuum pump to drain gas from the gob area of a longwall panel was successful at Bethlehem Mines Corporation, Cambria Division, No. 33 coal mine. (cdc.gov)
  • The Bureau of Mines has conducted desorption work on fine coal particles at near atmospheric pressure. (cdc.gov)
  • The Bureau of Mines conducted drilling studies in the Pocahontas No. 3, the Pittsburgh, and a western coalbed to establish the gas migration characteristics for each. (cdc.gov)
  • The global market for coal and gas is changing and global approaches to energy are changing," said Georgina Woods, the "Time2Choose" rally organiser from anti-coal group Lock The Gate said. (gulf-times.com)
  • For some time I have been arguing that to be anti-coal you have to be in reality pro-gas. (greenleft.org.au)
  • Police have charged three members of the Knitting Nannas anti-coal seam gas protest group after they chained themselves by their necks to a wastewater plant gate in northern New South Wales. (abc.net.au)
  • An anti-coal seam gas protest held by the Knitting Nannas at Narrabri. (abc.net.au)
  • Members of the Knitting Nannas anti-coal seam gas protest group line the road near the Santos wastewater plant in northern New South Wales. (abc.net.au)
  • Prices in the United States have also fallen after a brief surge in late 2018, amid ample production of natural gas from shale fields. (worldbank.org)
  • Hydraulic fracturing of shale gas is creating an incredible amount of new natural gas production, making the United States the world's largest and fastest growing producer of natural gas. (dailycaller.com)
  • He highlighted thecompany's ability to lower exploration and production costs, particularly in thecompany's natural gas assets in the dry Utica shale region where he said managementindicated operating costs could be more than 50% below average. (spglobal.com)
  • The moratorium has been imposed to enable the new arrangements around the issuing of exploration licences for coal, coal seam gas and petroleum exploration licences to be put in place. (greenleft.org.au)
  • Hume Coal, a joint project of Pohang Iron and Steel Company (POSCO) and Cockatoo Coal, holds the exploration license, which covers 115 square kilometres in the Southern Highlands. (greenleft.org.au)
  • It also would end lending for oil and natural gas field exploration, drilling and extraction. (eenews.net)
  • Berlin's temporary recourse to coal marks a turnaround for Chancellor Olaf Scholz's ruling coalition of Social Democrats, Greens and the liberal FDP, which has vowed to wind down its coal usage by 2030. (aljazeera.com)
  • Prior to the development of natural gas supply and transmission-during the 1940s and 1950s in the United States and during the late 1960s and 1970s in the United Kingdom and Australia-almost all gas for fuel and lighting was manufactured from coal. (wikipedia.org)
  • Together, the two countries account for more than 60 percent of global coal consumption and have been the main engines of growth in demand. (worldbank.org)
  • World coal production and consumption data for 2011 are not yet compiled and published, but one key number is in. (richardheinberg.com)
  • For comparison, US consumption in 2010 was just over 1 billion tons-and holding steady (mostly due to cheap natural gas prices). (richardheinberg.com)
  • Asia-Pacific coal consumption dwarfed that of the rest of the world last year, accounting for about 70 percent of total world coal consumption, assuming a continuation of the 9.1 percent growth seen from 2009 to 2010. (richardheinberg.com)
  • First, when and how will China's coal consumption stop growing? (richardheinberg.com)
  • To reduce gas consumption, less gas must be used to generate electricity. (aljazeera.com)
  • It's bitter but indispensable for reducing gas consumption," Habeck said. (aljazeera.com)
  • Coal consumption and production have sharply declined in recent years in the U.S., despite political support. (diw.de)
  • However, after the heat waves pushed electricity and natural gas consumption in Europe and supply fell short of the demand, the European natural gas prices which stood at €12 per megawatt-hour in last September increased nearly seven-fold to over €90 in September this year. (aa.com.tr)
  • Combined with fewer LNG and gas supplies from Russia to Europe and lower gas storage levels ahead of winter when natural gas consumption is expected to grow further, prices hit record levels. (aa.com.tr)
  • Fuel consuming stationary sources in 2017 were responsible for an estimated $524 billion to $777 billion in health impacts and 47,000-69,000 premature deaths, 33,000-53,000 of which were due to fuel sources other than coal. (harvard.edu)
  • Health impacts from coal are decreasing while the share of impacts from gas and wood/biomass are increasing, and this will likely continue beyond 2017. (harvard.edu)
  • A more feasible pathway to eliminating coal might use the targets set out by the Powering Past Coal Alliance (PPCA), an international coalition of countries established in 2017. (ucl.ac.uk)
  • This is absurd, given that Ontario effectively phased out coal-fired electricity units between 2005 and 2017. (coalwatch.ca)
  • Natural gas shortages during the 'coal-to-gas' transition in China have caused a large redistribution of air pollution in 2017. (bvsalud.org)
  • Fuel gas for industrial use was made using producer gas technology. (wikipedia.org)
  • Producer gas is made by blowing air through an incandescent fuel bed (commonly coke or coal) in a gas producer. (wikipedia.org)
  • It was discovered that adding steam to the input air of a gas producer would increase the calorific value of the fuel gas by enriching it with CO and hydrogen (H2) produced by water gas reactions. (wikipedia.org)
  • Some gases-for instance, nitrogen dioxide-do not dissolve easily. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Depending on the goal of the plant, the desired product was either a high quality coke for metallurgical use, with the gas being a side product, or the production of a high quality gas, with coke being the side product. (wikipedia.org)
  • But to achieve and maintain a climate edge over coal, the natural gas industry may have to nearly eliminate methane leaks. (wglt.org)
  • European natural gas prices surged by 600% compared to September 2020, reaching over €90 per megawatt-hour in Dutch Title Transfer Facility (TTF) while coal prices increased by 265% in the API2 Rotterdam Coal Futures as the supply fell short of meeting the growing demand. (aa.com.tr)
  • However, there is a key flaw in the draft strategy: new gas facilities built before January 2025 can remain operational and generate greenhouse gases beyond 2035. (coalwatch.ca)
  • But the equation could shift dramatically for the fledgling coal seam gas industry - the subject of a fierce political battle in NSW and Queensland - if meticulous standards were not followed when the gas was extracted from the ground. (smh.com.au)
  • 8.1 pollutes ground and surface water through the extraction of large volumes of saline water and the injection of chemicals into gas wells. (greens.org.au)
  • Should they choose to, they can extract gas with wells that may leak, take out as much water as they like, add chemicals in the process that may have long-term health consequences and persist for decades, and scar the land. (dea.org.au)
  • That technique involves injecting water, sand and chemicals into wells to release far more gas than conventional drilling can. (wxpr.org)
  • Even though natural gas burns much cleaner than coal, the main constituent, methane, also leaks into the atmosphere during production. (wxpr.org)
  • The decrease in coal and increase in natural gas for electricity occurred in every region of the country as gas prices declined from $4.14/MMBtu in July 2014, to $2.91/MMBtu a year later. (dailycaller.com)
  • Economy minister says Germany will limit the use of natural gas for electricity production and instead burn more coal. (aljazeera.com)
  • Germany's economy minister says the country will limit the use of natural gas for electricity production amid concerns about possible shortages caused by a cut in supplies from Russia. (aljazeera.com)
  • EPA Administrator Michael Regan announced the rule at the University of Maryland, where students campaigned in support of the Climate Solutions Now Act of 2022 , which sets a 60% greenhouse gas reduction target for Maryland by 2031, and a net zero goal for 2045. (environmentamerica.org)
  • Pipes at the landfall facilities of the 'Nord Stream 1' gas pipeline in Lubmin, Germany, on March 8, 2022. (theepochtimes.com)
  • Coal export terminals and terminal expansions are being pushed through in Surrey and in Delta , but raising concerns from local residents concerned about increased tanker traffic and pollution from coal transport. (canadians.org)
  • The water, collected as a byproduct of the coal seam gas extraction process, is treated using reverse osmosis technology at Kenya and stored on site. (offshore-technology.com)
  • Systematic evidence for methane contamination of drinking water associated with gas extraction has been documented. (dea.org.au)
  • The advent of electric lighting forced utilities to search for other markets for manufactured gas. (wikipedia.org)
  • Projections estimate that in 2018, the health impacts of coal and gas were nearly equal-coal remained the most harmful fuel in the electricity sector, while wood/biomass and gas were most harmful in buildings and industrial boilers. (harvard.edu)
  • The original coal gas was produced by the coal gasification reaction, and thus the burnable component consisted of mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen in roughly equal quantities by volume. (wikipedia.org)
  • Manufactured gas can be made by two processes: carbonization or gasification. (wikipedia.org)
  • Gasification is the process of subjecting a feedstock to chemical reactions that produce gas. (wikipedia.org)
  • By-products from the production process included coal tars and ammonia, which were important raw materials (or "chemical feedstock") for the dye and chemical industry with a wide range of artificial dyes being made from coal gas and coal tar. (wikipedia.org)
  • Colombia has long been self-sufficient in oil and gas production, with primary areas in the central Magdalena River valley and the Putumayo area adjacent to its border with Ecuador. (britannica.com)
  • In all countries, oil and gas production must fall even in published pathways to 1.5°C, rather than increasing as most countries plan. (ucl.ac.uk)
  • Furthermore, coal production within the U.S. is likely to experience regional shifts, affecting location and number of mining jobs. (diw.de)
  • The US Environmental Protection Agency has recently advised a town not to drink its groundwater, as the aquifer is contaminated with compounds associated with gas production. (dea.org.au)
  • That's potentially good news for advocates of natural gas, because it supports the argument that, if done right, natural gas production can be much better for the climate than coal. (wxpr.org)
  • The study appears in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , and suggests ways to make the production of natural gas cleaner than it is today. (wxpr.org)
  • At stake isn't simply gas production in the United States. (wxpr.org)
  • The natural gas production and supply system leaks the powerful greenhouse gas methane during drilling, fracking, processing and transport. (wglt.org)
  • The study takes into account all stages of production and uses for both gas and coal in making the comparison. (wglt.org)
  • Researchers also took into account the fact that coal production leaks methane. (wglt.org)
  • But the natural gas production and distribution system leaks methane from beginning to end, a problem producers say they are working to address through an industry-sponsored program . (wglt.org)
  • Overview of Environmental Lung Diseases Environmental lung diseases are caused by harmful particles, mists, vapors, or gases that are inhaled, usually while people work. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Gases such as chlorine and ammonia easily dissolve and immediately irritate the mouth, nose, and throat. (msdmanuals.com)
  • A common household exposure to a chemical gas occurs when a person mixes household ammonia with cleansers containing bleach. (msdmanuals.com)
  • While there are immediate domestic applications for this technology, given that Australia is one of the world's largest exporters of both coal and natural gas, there is significant value in investing in this zero emission technology as Australia's trading partners look to meet their own emission reduction obligations and energy needs," said LETA chief executive Mark McCallum. (afr.com)
  • It took Arrow Energy more than 24 hours to cap a major gas well blow-out . (greenleft.org.au)
  • The issue has taken on a new dimension over the past year amid rising energy bills for households, with some observers blaming the onshore gas moratoriums for supply shortages and price spikes in the domestic market. (gulf-times.com)
  • There's a lot of optimism, and a lot of enthusiasm for the project in the region, particularly given we've now got a lot of customers coming forward,' he said, referring to recent preliminary sales accords for Narrabri gas with Brickworks, Weston Energy and Perdaman Group. (afr.com)
  • Major energy financiers are backing away from future coal projects as pressure grows to meet global climate targets. (eenews.net)
  • A report by Friends of the Earth and Oil Change International found that Group of 20 countries have provided at least $77 billion in public financing to oil, gas and coal projects since the Paris Agreement was announced in 2015, about three times more than what's being invested in clean energy. (eenews.net)
  • And 'that essentially precludes the use of natural gas,' said Robbie Orvis, director of energy policy design at Energy Innovation, an energy and climate policy firm. (eenews.net)
  • Natural gas would account for the remaining 20% of energy. (eenews.net)
  • Others say gas can act as a 'bridge' to help with a transition to cleaner energy use and is necessary for low-income countries that lack basic access to electricity. (eenews.net)
  • But despite calls for a "balanced portfolio," an "all-of-the-above" energy strategy, and predictions of "more changes in the next 10 years than in the last 100," the focus of attention appears to be the decidedly mundane displacement of coal by natural gas. (powermag.com)
  • the following two concentrate on the current headline energy issues in the US - Keystone XL, and gas prices. (richardheinberg.com)
  • The amount of electricity generated by natural gas exceeded the amount generated by coal in the United States last April for the first time since the government began recording such things, according to data from the Energy Information Administration. (dailycaller.com)
  • Some academics even suggested natural gas would cease to be a major energy source in America by 2010. (dailycaller.com)
  • Nearby Finland unveiled plans to build a hydrogen transmission network to shore up its energy security after deciding to stop buying Russian gas. (theepochtimes.com)
  • 3. Given that coal mined in Queensland is a major contributor to the climate crisis, on a national and global scale, the Queensland Greens are committed to phasing out the thermal coal industry and replacing it with a jobs-rich, clean energy economy. (greens.org.au)
  • How do we expect wind, a variable source of energy with all it's maintenance flaws and operational hurdles, to out-compete coal and gas? (windpowerengineering.com)
  • But he said "there's an important distinction to be made between the role gas plays in the EU energy system, and where the EU gets it from. (politico.eu)
  • The move comes after Russia sharply reduced flows of natural gas in its pipelines to western Europe, driving up energy prices. (aljazeera.com)
  • The government has insisted that Russian gas will be needed for a while until alternative sources of energy, such as liquefied natural gas (LNG) brought in by ship, are available. (aljazeera.com)
  • CONSOL] isattractively valued for an exceptional basket of low-cost energy assets, includingtop-tier Marcellus and Utica E&P assets, and best-in-class Northern Appalachian(NAPP) thermal coal. (spglobal.com)
  • Our energy expertise spans from renewable wind energy to emission-reducing natural gas, as well as physical and digital solutions to modernize the grid connecting it all. (ge.com)
  • Data regarding MSW regulations, its generation rate and composition, as well as data regarding relevant aspects of the Nigerian energy market and its regulations and Nigeria's climate change policies are evaluated in order to determine the potential for successful implementation of a Landfill gas to energy project in the Olusosun dumpsite in Lagos, Nigeria. (lu.se)
  • The discovery of large reserves of natural gas, or sea gas as it was known colloquially, in the Southern North Sea off the coasts of Norfolk and Yorkshire in 1965 led to the expensive conversion or replacement of most of Britain's gas cookers and gas heaters, from the late 1960s onwards. (wikipedia.org)
  • In addition, significant CO exposure can occur in the absence of open flames, as a result of malfunctioning domestic equipment (eg, poorly ventilated space heaters, cooking gas) or exposure to automobile exhaust fumes either from a suicide attempt or accidentally from poor ventilation. (medscape.com)
  • ABSTRACT Carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning from coal and gas heaters is a public health concern in Turkey. (who.int)
  • CO is a major component of smoke produced in most open fires, particularly those involving wood, coal, gasoline, and other organic substances. (medscape.com)
  • Europe's benchmark gas price was trading at around 127 euros ($133) per megawatt hour (MWh), below this year's peak of 335 euros but still up more than 300 percent on its level a year ago. (theepochtimes.com)
  • Lindner's warning came after Germany's BDI industry association said recession in Europe's largest economy would be inevitable if Russia halts gas deliveries. (theepochtimes.com)
  • More than one-third of Europe's gas comes from Russia. (politico.eu)
  • While Australia is a major gas exporter and has large offshore projects, there has been a backlash against onshore developments such as coal-seam gas mining. (gulf-times.com)
  • A note by the Royal Bank of Canada expected the rate of filling up gas storage to slow and for governments to take action to ease demand. (theepochtimes.com)
  • NEW YORK--( BUSINESS WIRE )--Today the governments of Antigua and Barbuda, an island nation in the Caribbean highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, and Timor-Leste, a Southeast Asian state also vulnerable to climate impacts and heavily dependent on oil and gas revenues, joined a growing bloc of six Pacific nations pushing for the negotiation of a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. (businesswire.com)
  • Jones said he is not opposed to coal or coal seam gas mining but raised concerns about the government's lack of consideration in approving gas projects on and around prime agricultural land. (greenleft.org.au)
  • 9. Mining coking coal for steelmaking will continue and contribute to Queensland's economy, until an economically and environmentally viable alternative is available. (greens.org.au)
  • 8.4 the development and implementation of a programme for revegetation (with indigenous species) of disused coal mining land. (greens.org.au)
  • The campaign against coal seam gas (CSG) mining has taken to the streets over the past month with big turnouts at rallies in northern NSW and the spawning of "No CSG" groups all over social media sites, attracting thousands of supporters. (directaction.org.au)
  • An anonymous letter from a CSG mine worker detailed the changed practices of mining companies since British Gas took over Queensland Gas Corporation operations in Tara. (directaction.org.au)
  • 7. Increasing the capacity of the Queensland coal industry will not only damage the environment and potential employment but also frustrate and foreclose on the development of a carbon negative economy. (greens.org.au)
  • Persons working with coal and coal products have a greater likelihood of exposure to PAHs. (cdc.gov)
  • Abandoning coal is becoming common as nations like South Korea, a major coal funder, commit to halting investments in overseas projects. (eenews.net)
  • This is unlikely to be achievable or acceptable in any major coal-dependent developing country. (ucl.ac.uk)
  • The majority of global coal use can be found in emerging and developing countries, such as China and India. (ucl.ac.uk)
  • By framing the solution to climate change as one in which coal is removed first, it is these countries that must commit to rapidly decarbonising in the next decade. (ucl.ac.uk)
  • These targets reflect how developing countries are more dependent on coal and have less money to invest in the green transition, but bear less historical responsibility for causing climate change. (ucl.ac.uk)
  • Greg Combet, the federal minister for climate change, is now calling coal seam gas a "transitional fuel" to a low carbon future. (directaction.org.au)
  • Australia has a shocking record of climate change inaction coupled with an unenviable position as a world leader in annual per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution. (bellaciao.org)
  • But a new study finds that when the full impact of the industry is taken into account, natural gas could contribute as much as coal to climate change. (wglt.org)
  • The findings are a challenge to the natural gas industry, which bills itself as part of the solution to addressing climate change. (wglt.org)