Sentence examples for extraction and burning from inspiring English sources
Fossil fuel extraction and burning is a clear and present danger to the planet's ecology and climate.
But, although the Bush energy policy calls for the extraction and burning of more and more coal, the Bush budget calls for a six-per-cent cut in funding for the Mine Safety and Health Administration.
"We should not be encouraging the further extraction and burning of oil and gas when what we need is the rapid deployment of new low-carbon technologies," says Dave Timms, energy campaigner at FoE.
The extraction and burning of woody biomass at rates exceeding re-growth (i.e. non-renewable extraction) results in net emissions of CO2.
Romney insists on not only perpetuating but intensifying the same old policies promoting the extraction and burning of fossil fuels.
She emphasized the importance of acknowledging that greater greenhouse gas emissions result from the extraction and burning of tar sands oil, compared with normal crude oils.
Even the very conservative estimate of my climate scientist colleague Andrew Weaver, which by some gentle critiques leaves out extra fossil fuel emissions resulting from tar sands extraction, is dire: extracting and burning all of the Keystone-targeted oil would likely result in approximately 0.4C of additional warming.
Growth needs natural resources, the extraction, processing and burning of which creates the pollution that causes climate change.
While the technology of extraction, transport and burning is improving, the basic cost of the fuel will rise because it is a finite resource that will grow increasingly scarce with time.
That means that if the system for the exploration, extraction, compression, piping and burning of natural gas leaks by even 2.5 percent, it is as bad as coal".
In a recent submission to the Climate Change Authority, Appea said emissions from LNG were on average about half those from coal across its full life cycle, which includes extraction, processing, shipping, piping and burning for energy.
