Sentences with phrase «access coal seams»

Companies first clear - cut a mountaintop and then blast an average of 800 feet off the top of the mountain in order to access coal seams that lie beneath.

Mountaintop removal mining is one of the most destructive processes in the extractive industry: Peaks of mountains are literally blown to smithereens to access the coal seams within.

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An unlikely alliance has emerged in some regions, especially in New South Wales and Queensland, between environmentalists and traditionally hostile farmers to oppose the rapid spread of huge new coal mines on rich agricultural land and coal seam gas reserves being accessed by fracking.