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DECEMBER 7, 2009

China’s National Development and Reform Commission has approved the takeover of Australian coal company Felix Resources Ltd. by the state-owned Yanzhou Coal Mining Co Ltd, China’s fourth-largest coal producer. Felix Resources Mine Locations. Source: Felix. Click to enlarge. Source: Felix. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 4, 2009

are examining the possibility of using underground coal gasification (UCG) as a means to convert the coal into product gas at its recently acquired Drumheller, Alberta property. million for a $30-million deep coal gasification project being undertaken by a Calgary-based company. Nordic Oil and Gas Ltd. Earlier post.)

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JUNE 5, 2010

The government of Canada is awarding approximately C$5 million (US$4.7 Additional resources of approximately C$1.2M In the project, NRC is collaborating with a number of industrial partners, including Ocean Nutrition Canada in Halifax; Menova Energy Inc. Tags: Algae Algal Fuels Canada.

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MAY 2, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE), Natural Resources Canada and the Mexican Ministry of Energy have released the first-ever atlas mapping the potential carbon dioxide storage capacity in North America. Also being launched alongside the hard-copy atlas are the NACSA website and online viewer.

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DECEMBER 24, 2009

has entered into an agreement with Clean Coal Ltd., an internationally based company whose technical team is based in the United Kingdom, for the development of an Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) project in Nova Scotia. Clean Coal Ltd. The United Kingdom Coal Authority has recently awarded five licences to Clean Coal Ltd.

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JANUARY 16, 2012

The issue has divided existing members, with Russia and Canada most strongly opposed. It is among the major questions with which Canada will have to grapple as it prepares to chair the Council next year, notes the Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation, a Canadian public policy organization.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

The Action Plan looks at the current and future challenges and proposes actions to reduce Europe’s dependency on third countries, diversifying supply from both primary and secondary sources and improving resource efficiency and circularity while promoting responsible sourcing worldwide.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Although China and India remain the world’s largest consumers of coal, a new University of Maryland-led study found that China’s sulfur dioxide emissions fell by 75% since 2007, while India’s emissions increased by 50%. Illustration: Chris McLinden, Environment and Climate Change Canada. Click to enlarge.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2009

A consortium led by BP-Eni 50:50 joint venture VICO has signed a production sharing contract (PSC) with the Government of Indonesia for the exploration and development of coalbed methane (CBM) resources on the Sanga-Sanga block in East Kalimantan, Indonesia. As yet there is no commercial CBM production in the country.

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JUNE 26, 2010

Natural gas will play a leading role in reducing greenhouse-gas emissions over the next several decades, largely by replacing older, inefficient coal plants with highly efficient combined-cycle gas generation, according to a major new interim report out from MIT. The first two reports dealt with nuclear power (2003) and coal (2007).

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DECEMBER 8, 2019

In addition to having access to Québec’s vast water resources to generate green, renewable power at competitive prices, Hydro-Québec has everything it needs to support the development of green hydrogen. Québec has vast hydraulic resources in the form of some 500,000 lakes and 4,500 rivers. Heating buildings. Renewable natural gas.

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JULY 29, 2019

On 26 July, the first flue gas from the natural gas power plant, the Shepard Energy Center in Calgary, Canada, was directly transformed by the C2CNT process ( earlier post ) into carbon nanotubes. The carbon nanotubes are valued at more than $100,000 per tonne—a thousand-fold greater than coal. —Prof. 2019.07.007.

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MAY 5, 2022

Efforts include the work done by societies such as the IEEE Power & Energy Society , to which I belong; conferences such as the IEEE Sustainable Power and Energy Conference ; publications including IEEE Electrification ; and technical standards, like IEEE 1547 for connecting distributed energy resources to the grid. Carbon sequestration.

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AUGUST 15, 2010

Debate about the future of oil sands development is so contentious that even the name of the resource is disputed: proponents typically use oil sands while opponents use tar sands. However, this only accounts for the processing that occurs in Canada and therefore excludes much of the refining and transport emissions.

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MAY 21, 2009

Major funding for the projects came from Industry Canada through Genome Canada and the Government of Alberta through Alberta Advanced Education and Technology. Major funding for the projects came from Industry Canada through Genome Canada and the Government of Alberta through Alberta Advanced Education and Technology.

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AUGUST 17, 2020

Canada Nickel Company Inc. The Company has applied for trademarks for the terms NetZero Nickel, NetZero Cobalt, and NetZero Iron in the US, Canada, and other jurisdictions related to zero-carbon production of nickel, cobalt, and iron products. —,Mark Selby, Chair & CEO of Canada Nickel.

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AUGUST 26, 2014

A new international study led by McGill University (Canada) Professor Jill Baumgartner suggests that black carbon may also increase the risk of cardiovascular disease. The team’s findings are published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States (PNAS). —Baumgartner et al. 1317176111.

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MARCH 5, 2013

This decision follows an investment decision in 2011 on a similar corridor in Alberta, Canada. million tons per annum) at its Shell Sarnia Manufacturing Centre in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada. In the first decade of the 21 st century, exploration success and technology advances have more than doubled the recoverable gas resource base.

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DECEMBER 14, 2009

The agreement, which is subject to XTO stockholder approval and regulatory clearance, will enhance ExxonMobil’s position in the development of unconventional natural gas and oil resources. XTO’s resource base is the equivalent of 45 trillion cubic feet of gas and includes shale gas, tight gas, coal bed methane and shale oil.

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MAY 13, 2011

TCX is the company’s new proprietary technology for ethanol production that builds on its acetyl platform and integrates new technologies to produce ethanol using basic hydrocarbon feedstocks—natural gas, coal and pet coke now, with biomass and waste planned for the future. Earlier post.). Source: Celanese. Click to enlarge.

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DECEMBER 15, 2009

The Rentech MOU contemplates the production and purchase of approximately 250 million gallons per year of synthetic jet fuel derived principally from coal or petroleum coke, with the resultant carbon dioxide sequestered and the carbon footprint potentially further reduced by integrating biomass as a feedstock. Earlier post.).

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JULY 8, 2012

The paper by researchers from Peking University and Environment Canada appears in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. As a result, the use of coal from small local mines is included in the provincial statistics, but not in the national statistics. By comparing fuel consumption data (1980?2007) Credit: ACS, Wang et al.

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JULY 28, 2009

Of the installed capacity of just above 12,000 MW, approximately 49% (5,893 MW) is coal fired, 39% (4,686 MW) is gas-fired, 7% (869 MW) is hydro, and 4% (497 MW) is wind powered. More than 90% of electricity in Alberta is produced by methods that emit greenhouse gases: burning coal, oil or natural gas. Tags: Canada Plug-ins.

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DECEMBER 16, 2013

The full AEO2014 report, to be released this spring, will also consider alternative resource and technology scenarios, some with significantly higher long-term oil production than the Reference case. Natural gas overtakes coal as the largest fuel for US electricity generation. Pipeline exports to Canada grow by 1.2% Tcf in 2040.

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JULY 10, 2015

A team at the University of Calgary (Canada) has compared the energy intensities and lifecycle GHG emissions of unconventional oils (oil sands and oil shale) alongside shale gas, coal, lignite, wood and conventional oil and gas. How does this relate to the life cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions intensity? —Nduagu & Gates.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

World production of unconventional resources (including biofuels, oil sands, extra-heavy oil, coal-to-liquids, and gas-to-liquids), which totaled 3.9 World coal consumption increases from 139 quadrillion Btu in 2008 to 209 quadrillion Btu in 2035, at an average annual rate of 1.5% million barrels per day.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

billion barrels of liquid fuels and chemicals from coal and natural gas. Sasol converts gas and coal into liquid fuels, fuel components and chemicals through proprietary Fischer-Tropsch (FT) processes. Sasol has used its proprietary technology for more than 60 years to produce more than 1.6 Earlier post.)

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JANUARY 28, 2019

However, US coal shipments, which are primarily via rail, decline slightly. The AEO2019 Reference case also projects significant continued development of US shale and tight oil and natural gas resources, as well as continued growth in use of renewable resources. Other findings. million barrels per day (b/d) through 2040.

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JUNE 20, 2012

Bartis and RAND colleague Lawrence van Bibbe were the authors of a 2011 RAND report concluding that if the US military increased its use of alternative jet and naval fuels that can be produced from coal or various renewable resources, including seed oils, waste oils and algae, there would be no direct benefit to the nation’s armed forces.

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MAY 18, 2018

First, environmental plant closures in the raw material coal needle coke industry hampered the production of graphite electrodes. Syrah Resources jump-started the ROW graphite supply chain when it brought its Balama flake graphite project online in November 2017. ROW still far from developing a spherical graphite supply chain.

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DECEMBER 31, 2023

Resource Conservation: Renewable energy technologies often require fewer natural resources and have a lower environmental impact during their life cycle compared to traditional energy sources. Transmission Constraints: In some regions, the best renewable energy resources may be located far from population centers.

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JULY 6, 2011

The scenarios take per capita energy demand from the A1F1 scenario, but assume slightly greater population growth and higher carbon intensity; one simulation assumes that fractional primary energy production remains at present day values while the other more extreme scenario assumes that all future energy demand is met by coal.

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DECEMBER 6, 2015

Large relative increases were apparent in Western Canada, parts of South America, the Middle East, India and China. There were modest decreases in population-weighted ozone levels in the US, Mexico, and Canada as well as parts of Europe, likely due to implementation of air quality management programs, and several countries in southeast Asia.

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MARCH 28, 2009

Hildebrandt and her colleagues viewed the coal-to-liquids process as a heat engine: The first step is a high-temperature endothermic reaction that converts the solid coal into gases. Tags: Coal-to-Liquids (CTL) Fuels. Earlier post.). Hildebrandt et al. Glasser (2009) Producing Transportation Fuels with Less Work. Science Vol.

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MAY 21, 2010

Oil alternatives can also be water intensive: ethanol from non-irrigated crops is comparable to oil sands mining, and options like coal-to-liquids can use 10 barrels of water per barrel of product, according to IHS CERA. Tags: Canada Climate Change Fuels Lifecycle analysis Oil Oil sands. Conventional oil uses 0.1 Potential growth.

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JANUARY 16, 2013

Reducing emissions from diesel engines and domestic wood and coal fires is a no-brainer, as there are tandem health and climate benefits. The results indicate that there may be a greater potential to curb warming by reducing black carbon emissions than previously thought. Bond et al.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2010

The LCFS would essentially ban imports to California of fuels derived from unconventional sources such as oil sands from Canada, oil shale from the Western US, or domestic coal supplies that can be converted into transportation fuels. NPRA President Charles T. LCFS Complaint.

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