R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Today let’s discuss coal. Coal Emissions In 2022, coal comprised 26.7% However, coal was responsible for more carbon dioxide emissions than its fossil fuel counterparts. Coal contains a higher percentage of carbon than does oil or natural gas. of the world’s primary energy consumption. Allow me to illustrate.

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The Guardian: Energy

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

In its decision notice about the proposed 1.4GW power station proposal, the Queensland Department of Environment and Science said economic and employment impacts were outweighed by climate concerns, and that it was inconsistent with “the right to life”.

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TechCrunch: Climate

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The Department of Justice raked eBay over the proverbial coals today, accusing the online retailer of “unlawfully selling and distributing hundreds of thousands” of products that threaten the environment and public health.

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The Guardian: Energy

APRIL 3, 2024

Environment groups say increased pollution levels means it would be ‘absurd and harmful’ to extend life of Eraring, which is due to close in August 2025 Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast Mercury and particulate pollution from Australia’s largest coal-fired power station soared last year, prompting an environmental (..)

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altenergymag

JANUARY 31, 2023

• ABB’s drives have increased the energy efficiency of Beijing Enterprises Environment Group Limited’s (BEEGL’s) solid waste treatment plant in Zhangjiagang • Plant is benefiting from lower electricity use while increasing the city’s waste disposal capacity to 2,250 tons per day • The 23 new high-efficiency variable speed drives (VSDs) will reduce (..)

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Renew Economy

JUNE 19, 2022

"Coalkeeper" looms large as the ESB insists it is "more efficient" to keep existing coal generators online. Just a shame about the environment. The post Coal included in re-heated proposal for controversial capacity payments appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Eco-Business

APRIL 14, 2024

Grace Fu suggested that the region's emissions allowance would be better spent on manufacturing industries needed to sustain the aspirations of a young and growing Southeast Asia.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 24, 2022

According to the European Commission and the European Environment Agency, the top 10 largest methane emitting coal mines in Europe are in Poland. Coal mine clusters (Data source: ‘Global Coal Mine Tracker’, Global Energy Monitor, January 2022). Methane emissions from coal mining.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Work on the underground mines required for the scheme was supported by the Coal Authority, which owns and manages the disused coal-mining infrastructure on behalf of the UK government. With billions of tonnes of coal extracted from British mines over the past 3 centuries, a wealth of information on mine workings exists.

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Renew Economy

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Engie's proposed Hazelwood lake will be scrutinised by the federal government's more muscular environment department for its huge water use. The post Can an old coal pit be turned into a lake? Hazelwood plans set off “water trigger” appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The recent addition of the SeaShield 70/80 System is a response to the industry’s need for a robust, UV-stable, easy-to-apply system designed specifically for submerged and shoreline pipelines situated in aggressive marine environments.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 14, 2022

Today I delve into the data on coal production and consumption. Comparing Coal’s Emissions. Coal is the most polluting fossil fuel. Coal contains a higher percentage of carbon than does oil or natural gas. Coal contains a higher percentage of carbon than does oil or natural gas. drop in global coal consumption.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 9, 2021

Recognize the growing demand for more information on the impact that firms have on the climate and the environment. Agree on the need for a baseline global reporting standard for sustainability, which jurisdictions can further supplement. Pull Quote. The writing on the wall is clear.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

For the last nine years, Severn Trent Services, has managed a contract for mine water treatment across the Coal Authority estate, including 73 mine water treatment schemes in England, Scotland and Wales. The Force Cragg former metal mine in the Lake District. These schemes take the form of three types: passive, pumped-passive and active.

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Energy Central

APRIL 21, 2023

It appears that the reign of Old King Coal is finally ending because of its impact on the environment and its inability to compete economically with cleaner energy sources, including natural gas and renewables like solar and wind. Coal has powered industries for centuries. According to Christopher Jones, “the rise of.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 22, 2021

Today I delve into the data on coal production and consumption. Comparing Coal’s Emissions. Coal is the most polluting fossil fuel. Coal contains a higher percentage of carbon than does oil or natural gas. Coal contains a higher percentage of carbon than does oil or natural gas. What is meant by that?

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Inhabitat - Innovation

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Coal-fired power plants, vehicle-clogged highways, and fossil-fuel spewing factories have contributed to the growing European air pollution dilemma. Industries, households and vehicles all emit dangerous mixtures of pollutant particulates that are harmful to human health.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 20, 2021

Solar prices hit record-lows, firmly ousting coal as the cheapest source of electricity. It is impossible to ignore the role of coal. State-owned enterprise Coal India is the largest coal mining company in the world. The coal sector is a major source of revenue for states and the central government.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

By next year, it could be breathing new life into coal power plants that are currently scheduled for a date with a wrecking ball. Siemens Gamesa’s coal plant lifeline. According to Global Energy Monitor’s coal power plant tracker, the U.S. gigawatts of new coal-fired power capacity since 2006.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 25, 2021

Dawdon mine water treatment scheme (image credit: Copyright Coal Authority. Mine energy is the extraction of natural geothermal-heated water that has gathered in the underground networks of former deep coal mines. The Coal Authority owns and licenses access to the abandoned mining infrastructure. All rights reserved 2018).

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 25, 2020

Read time: 15 mins For more than a century-and-a-half, the forests, streams, and hollows of the Appalachian Mountains have been scraped and gashed to unearth their heart of rich black coal. Nothing really to cheer about in the coal industry these days.”. Hit with another wave of bankruptcies, King Coal is on its deathbed.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 9, 2022

The materials used in this system should be easily accessible for people in places where there are few options besides burning wood or coal. There are still many parts of the world where people cook directly over such fires, which is damaging for the environment as well as the local community’s health.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 31, 2020

Much of the new renewable capacity being built around the world is being offset by new coal and gas capacity, leaving the global generation mix more or less how it was in 2000. Even those utilities and independent power producers (IPPs) prioritizing renewables are adding further natural gas and coal capacity, in most cases.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2020

In a clear signal of how the fossil fuel industry feels about efforts to enact Rights of Nature protections that safeguard communities and the environment from the impacts of coal, gas, and oil development, an energy company has — yet again — filed a federal lawsuit challenging a local law in Grant Township, Pennsylvania.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 11, 2020

Uniper, one of Germany’s largest utilities, has set a 2035 net zero target for its European power business, a surprising pivot for a company that only recently completed what will likely be Europe's last coal-fired power plant. gigawatts of coal. Last coal plant in Europe. Uniper has 34.3 Other than 3.6

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2024

Truss writes that “we should cancel” the United Nations annual COP climate summit, and falsely claims that electric vehicles are worse for the environment than those powered by fossil fuels. “In More than 40 countries also pledged to quit coal , the dirtiest fossil fuel and the world’s largest source of carbon dioxide emissions.

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Business Green

JULY 29, 2021

North Yorkshire power plant once dependent on 10 million tonnes of coal annually now produces 12 per cent of UK’s renewable electricity, according to Drax Group. Coal use at the plant will end completely in September 2022, when existing capacity market agreements come to an end, according to the company.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 27, 2020

Today, I want to cover the production and consumption of coal. Coal is often called the dirtiest fossil fuel. Coal contains a higher percentage of carbon than does oil or natural gas. So, when coal is combusted, it produces more carbon dioxide per unit of energy than oil or natural gas will produce. What is meant by that?

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 14, 2021

A recently published book by Still Burning , a network campaigning against coal imports to Europe and neocolonialism, explores the links between our addiction to coal and the deteriorating ecological and social conditions of communities living near mines supplying European power stations and steelworks. Credit: Sally Low.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Read time: 6 mins This week, a group of eight Australian teens has brought a groundbreaking new climate change lawsuit against Australia’s Federal Minister for the Environment in an effort to stop a proposed coal mine expansion in the state of New South Wales, roughly 267 miles north of Sydney.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 16, 2021

Last December, a cross-party council planning committee unanimously rejected what could very well be the last opencast coal application in the UK, proposed at Dewley Hill, an area of greenbelt outside Newcastle. So after 80 years, we cautiously celebrate an end to the ecologically ruinous method of opencast coal extraction.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

State-owned enterprise China National Administration of Coal Geology (CNACG) has announced plans of putting up a scientific research facility for geothermal energy in the Xiong’An New Area in North China.

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altenergymag

JUNE 3, 2021

It took us ages to realize the earth's natural resources such as oil, natural gas, and coal are limited. Solar water heaters do not emit harmful gas, contradictory to conventional methods such as the use of fossil fuels that produce a colossal amount of CO2, harming the environment.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Researchers have devised a new framework using high throughput ‘omics’ technologies to detect the effects of ambient chemical mixtures – of the type and concentration typically found in the environment – on the biology of living organisms. The approach uses Daphnia to understand what chemicals can be toxic to other species and how.

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Grist

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Stripping coal from a mountain demands a wholesale rearrangement of its summit and the transformation of the surrounding forest into a moonscape. Flat land is hard to come by in the mountainous central Appalachian region, and much of the development has occurred on ridges flattened by coal strip mines.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 14, 2021

A recently published book by Still Burning , a network campaigning against coal imports to Europe and neocolonialism, explores the links between our addiction to coal and the deteriorating ecological and social conditions of communities living near mines supplying European power stations and steelworks. Credit: Sally Low.

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Business Green

APRIL 25, 2022

Meanwhile, fossil gas and coal produced just 14.5 Britain's latest clean energy milestones come as reports indicate Housing and Communities Minister Michael Gove is considering approving the UK's first new deep coal mine in a generation as part of the government's mission to cut the UK's reliance on Russian coal.

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