Sentence examples for billion tonne from inspiring English sources

This is inconceivable.Call to ArmsThe world appears destined to break that 700 billion tonne budget quite dramatically.

According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), power demand is expected to rise up to 18 billion tonne oil equivalent by 2035 from a current demand of 12 billion tonne oil equivalent [1].

Not far from the ruins lies a hidden treasure: The 1.8 billion tonne Hajigak iron ore mines.

The country is endowed with the world's tenth largest reserves of crude oil currently estimated to be about 36 billion barrels (about 4.896 billion tonne of oil equivalent (toe)) in 2006.

Table 1 Nigeria's energy reserves and potentials (2005) Resources type Reserves Reserves (BTOE a Crude oil 36.0 billion barrels 4.896 Natural gas 166 trillion SCFb 4.465 Coal and lignite 2.7 billion tonne 1.882 Tar sands 31 billion barrel 4.216 Subtotal fossil   15.459 aBTOE billion tonnes of oil equivalent.

Media reports have linked Ex-Im to the Australian coal project, which, if completed, would open Australia's Galilee Basin for coal mining, unleashing a 7.6 billion tonne carbon bomb into the atmosphere once the coal is burned.

The government's grand ten-year strategic plan for transport is falling apart, and one of the reasons is its failure to address the pressure on roads.In 2000, roads carried 666 billion passenger km (93% of the total) and 158 billion tonne-km of freight (90%).

The Association of American Railroads (AAR) pointed to statistics that it said showed that pipelines have an average spill size more than four times that of railroads and their total amount spilled per billion tonne-kilometres is about 1.6 times that of the railroads.

The grand total is 9 billion tonnes of water.

The world currently emits about 32 billion tonnes.

Solid waste: 3.8 billion tonnes (of which 45.7m tonnes is hazardous) Heavy metal discharges: 900 tonnes Livestock faeces: 243 million tonnes.