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OCTOBER 31, 2010

BG Group has approved implementation of the first phase of a US$15-billion project to convert coal seam gas (CSG) to LNG—the first major commercial project to do so. Total gross discovered coal seam gas reserves and resources presently amount to an estimated 17.3 In early 2008, we announced our first investment in Australia.

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MARCH 18, 2009

Peabody Energy has entered into long-term coal supply agreements for more than 90 million tons of coal, which it says will now allow development of the Bear Run Mine in Sullivan County, Indiana. Peabody Energy is the world’s largest private-sector coal company, with 2008 sales of 256 million tons and $6.6

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MAY 30, 2011

Energy-related carbon-dioxide (CO2) emissions in 2010 were the highest in history, according to the latest estimates by the International Energy Agency (IEA). Gigatonnes (Gt), a 5% jump from the previous record year in 2008, when levels reached 29.3 tonnes for China, and 1.5 tonnes in India. Fatih Birol, Chief Economist at the IEA.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2009

has been chosen to provide the coal gasification technology for the Taylorville Energy Center (TEC), a 730-megawatt (gross) advanced coal generating plant being developed near Taylorville, Ill. TEC will be one of the first commercial-scale, coal gasification plants with carbon capture and storage (CCS) capability in the US. .

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MARCH 20, 2018

With assets exceeding US$270 billion, China Energy has set a number of world records including being the largest producer of coal, thermal power, renewable energy, and coal-to-oil and coal chemical products. Clean energy, including hydrogen, is a key focus of the Group.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Wednesday, June 25, 2008. Right now, here in 2008 the cat is on the roof for global warming. So far GM, Toyota, Nissan, VW, Mitsubishi, have all announced plug in vehicles they will have for sale in 2010. There’s an old joke that most of us baby boomers first heard when we were kids. ” “What!? I understand.

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AUGUST 24, 2010

The United States used significantly less coal and petroleum in 2009 than in 2008, and significantly more wind power. The information is based on DOE/EIA-0384(2009), August 2010. quadrillion BTUs in 2008. 51 in 2008. Even better, there are more projects in the pipeline for 2010 and beyond. 22,09, 2.16

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DECEMBER 15, 2009

Existing US policies that stress energy efficiency and alternative fuels, together with higher energy prices, will curb energy consumption growth and shift the energy mix toward renewable fuels, according to the reference case for the Annual Energy Outlook 2010 ( AEO2010 ) released by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA).

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AUGUST 12, 2009

The decrease was driven by the economic downturn, combined with a significant switch from coal to natural gas as a source of electricity generation, according to the EIA. For 2008, the EIA reported a 3.2% decrease in CO 2 emissions from fossil fuels in 2008. decline in coal-based CO 2 emissions for 2009. Natural Gas.

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AUGUST 21, 2011

Environment Canada released the text of the proposed regulations to reduce emissions from the coal-fired electricity sector. The proposed Regulations will apply a performance standard to new coal-fired electricity generation units and those coal-fired units that have reached the end of their economic life.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

correction for the leap year 2008), global emissions have. jumped by more than 5% in 2010, which is unprecedented. correction for the leap year 2008), global emissions have. jumped by more than 5% in 2010, which is unprecedented. increase in global CO 2 emissions between 2009 and 2010, according to the report.

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JULY 8, 2012

2007); and predicted national data from the National Long-term Development Plan (NLDP) (2008?2050). In addition, predicted oil consumption for use in motor vehicles between 2008 and 2050 were used to develop the inventory. 1979); provincial data from the China Energy Statistics Yearbook (CESY) (1980?2007); Credit: ACS, Wang et al.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

While emissions from oil and gas have decreased, emissions from coal have remained stable; the share of coal as a fuel has increased. G Myhre, K Alterskjær and D Lowel (2010) Addendum to “A fast method for updating global fossil fuel carbon dioxide emissions”. China also has a large export sector. Resources.

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OCTOBER 2, 2010

The fuel, produced by Sasol’s proprietary Coal to Liquids (CTL) process, is the only fully synthetic jet fuel to have received international approval as a commercial aviation turbine fuel, Sasol said. Tambo International Airport have flown using Sasol’s semi-synthetic jet fuel.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2011

With subsidies long in place for nuclear, coal and gas in the US along with the cheap cost of production for coal and natural gas, solar is essentially competing with that $0.10/kWh The US has 1,750 MW of PV planned for 2011 and currently employs 100,000 people, more than coal mining or steel manufacturing.

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JULY 5, 2011

trillion in 2010) would be required to overcome poverty; increase food production to eradicate hunger without degrading land and water resources; and avert the climate change catastrophe. Global CO 2 emissions have increased at an annual rate of more than 3 per cent, considerably faster than in previous decades (van Vuuren and Riahi, 2008).

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JANUARY 6, 2011

On 9 November 2010, GE announced plans to invest more than $2 billion into its efforts in China through 2012 to help tackle the country’s pressing energy and infrastructure needs. is a large and advanced private enterprise group, dealing mainly in coal washing, coking, power generation, coal-gas supply, mining, etc.

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OCTOBER 10, 2011

Australian resource company Blackham Resources Limited announced that Phase II of the Preliminary Process Study (PPS) for its Scaddan coal-to-liquids (CTL) project has confirmed the technical feasibility of the production of 15,000 barrels per day of Fischer-Tropsch diesel and naphtha, or 6.1 million barrels of oil equivalent per year.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

In February 2008, Chevron Corporation and Weyerhaeuser Company created a 50-50 joint venture company— Catchlight Energy LLC — focused on developing the next generation of renewable transportation fuels from nonfood sources. The company plans to break ground on that facility during the first half of 2010. Chevron and lignin for fuels.

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APRIL 13, 2014

giga tonne carbon dioxide equivalent (GtCO 2 eq) (2.2%) per year from 2000 to 2010 compared to 0.4 Total anthropogenic GHG emissions were the highest in human history from 2000 to 2010 and reached 49 (±4.5) GtCO 2 eq/yr in 2010. The global economic crisis 2007/2008 only temporarily reduced emissions. Transport sector.

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MAY 29, 2012

From 2000 to 2010, China’s energy use grew 130%, up from a growth of 50% the previous decade. China’s share of global energy-related CO 2 emissions has increased in just eight years from 14% in 2000 to 22% in 2008. Eighty percent of those emissions came from coal, making China the consumer of about half the world’s coal.

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APRIL 10, 2010

At the same time, Americans continue to advocate greater energy conservation by consumers (52%) over greater production of oil, gas, and coal supplies (36%) as a means of solving the nation’s energy problems. Results are based on telephone interviews with a random sample of 1,014 national adults, aged 18 and older, conducted 4-7 March 2010.

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MAY 8, 2014

The 2014 database covers the period from 2008 to 2013, with the majority of values for the years 2011 and 2012. The 2011 version of the database contains data for 2010 or earlier, and the 2014 version for 2012 or earlier.

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JUNE 12, 2009

US Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced an agreement with the FutureGen Alliance that advances the construction of the FutureGen plant: a 275 MW prototype that would co-produce electricity and hydrogen from coal with essentially zero emissions, including carbon dioxide emissions, which would be captured and sequestered. Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 2, 2010

The team used the lead particles’ isotopic signature to trace some of the lead’s origins to coal and metal ore found only in Asia. “ In Asia, for example, mineral dust and other sources of lead such as coal and metal ore have particularly high proportions of 208Pb, the isotope that forms from radioactive decay of thorium. Stephanie A.

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DECEMBER 17, 2010

After falling 3% in 2008 and nearly 7% in 2009, largely driven by the economic downturn, energy-related CO 2 emissions do not return to 2005 levels (5,980 million metric tons) until 2027. Coal remains the dominant energy source for electricity generation because of continued reliance on existing coal-fired plants.

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DECEMBER 8, 2017

A 2010 Health Effects Institute study estimated that 45% of Americans live near roads with elevated levels of traffic emissions. Coal still contributes significantly to the generation mix.) US EPA’s Clean Diesel Program: Diesel emissions account for 6.3 million tons of nitrogen oxides and 305,000 tons of particulate matter in the U.S.

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JANUARY 17, 2015

The report, “ Renewable Power Generation Costs in 2014 ”, concludes that biomass, hydropower, geothermal and onshore wind are all competitive with or cheaper than coal, oil and gas-fired power stations, even without financial support and despite falling oil prices. Residential solar PV systems are now as much as 70% cheaper than in 2008.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Among its findings, the report notes that in DOE’s assessment, “ although significant progress has been made ”, fuel cell cost is still too high and durability still too low to enable industry to meet the deployment goal of 100,000 hydrogen-fueled vehicles by 2010, as specified in EPACT. wt%, which exceeds the 2010 system target of 4.5

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JUNE 19, 2009

DOE’s targets are $45/kW by 2010 and $30/kW by 2015. ARB staff also noted that fuel cell durability has improved dramatically, including free-capable system lasting 1,900 hours in the field in 2008 (up from 950 hours in 2006) and 7,300 hours in the lab. kWh (350 bar, down 9% from 2008) for hydrogen storage. Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 9, 2012

Annual GHG emissions from a large refinery are comparable to the emissions of a typical 500 MW coal-fired power plant. In the US, GHG emissions from refineries in 2010 represented nearly 12% of US industrial sector emissions or 3% of the total US GHG emissions. By 2010 this fraction had increased to 15%.

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JUNE 10, 2011

For light passenger vehicles, even at 2010 oil-natural gas price differentials, the high incremental costs of CNG vehicles lead to longer payback times for the average driver, so significant penetration of CNG into the passenger fleet is unlikely in the short term, the report finds. million in 2008 to around 17 million in 2035.

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MARCH 22, 2010

According to a report by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the margin of error in measuring emissions by DOEs can be as high as: 10% for the cement and fertilizer industries; 60% for the oil, gas, and coal industries; and. Donovan (February 19, 2010). Donovan (3 March 2010).

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APRIL 6, 2010

Many things in your life haven’t changed since 2010 but one thing certainly has: You won’t need to buy gas in order to drive. In 2008, transportation accounted for 22 percent of all city carbon emissions. million metric tons of transportation emissions in 2008. Will Electric Cars Give New York a Charge? by Lars Vercelli.

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JULY 22, 2009

Ed Feo is a partner with the law firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy and was voted one of the “Five Most Influential People in Renewable Energy” in 2008 by Euromoney / Institutional Investor. We reached peak oil consumption in the US in 2008 and the same is true in the EU and Japan. ” Billion in 2008). Billion vs. $28.3

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MAY 13, 2010

According to the recently finalized Inventory of US Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990-2008 , net US GHG emissions in 2008 were down 2.7% 2010 US Greenhouse Gas Inventory Report. compared to 2005 levels.). It also provides significant incentives for the commercial deployment of 72 GW of carbon capture and sequestration.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2009

as compared to 1990 emissions, to be achieved between 2008 and 2012. After Copenhagen, countries would then concentrate on “ two processes ”, now colloquially referred to as “two steps” in 2010. April, 2008 : In an article entitled Dangerous Assumptions ( earlier post ), Roger Pielke, Jr., ºF) increase.

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