Sentences with phrase «against coal mining»

Good examples are the attacks on Al Gore for investing in sustainable energy and doing CO2 trading, and those on Jim Hansen for demonstrating against coal mining.

He felt so strongly about it that he joined one of the peaceful protests against coal mining and nearly got arrested.

on A good federal court decision against a coal mining expansion: There are no remedies for failure to consider climate change impacts

Her fear was the culmination of five years she had spent organizing villagers in Singrauli to protest against coal mining.

Apparently, when Jonathan Moylan and his fellow activists are not campaigning against coal mines they are thinking about how to maximising their superannuation nest eggs.

Former Wallabies captain David Pocock has been charged over a protest against a coal mine in northern New South Wales.

Not exact matches

People in B.C. also lashed out against that provincial government's support for Chinese - owned HD Mining's plan to use temporary foreign workers at a proposed coal mine in Tumbler Ridge.

For instance regulations that are going to cripple the coal industry were voted against by Democrats from coal mining areas, despite their party's significant support for the measure.

If it includes a requirement to consider the life - cycle effects of greenhouse gases associated with the coal to be extracted, it might tip the scales against the new mine.

Prior to joining the Center in 2007 she worked as an amphibian field biologist, conservation corps crew leader, and community organizer against mountaintop - removal coal mining.

Gypsies used these terriers to poach game off the landed gentry, and coal miners used them to rid the mines of rats, and raced them for fun, often pitting them against lightning - fast Whippets.

Your videos often document a struggle for survival against extreme circumstances, from living in the uninhabited deserts of China, to working in a dangerous Arctic coal mine miles beneath the earth's surface.

For this reason many Modernists of the postwar generation felt that they were the most important bulwark against totalitarianism, the «canary in the coal mine», whose repression by a government or other group with supposed authority represented a warning that individual liberties were being threatened.

A newly announced partnership between the world's biggest private coal mining company and coal - burning country cuts against recent efforts to paint China green because of its push on manufacturing wind turbines and solar panels.

James E. Hansen, the NASA climate scientist who has become an outspoken campaigner against coal burning, was among 31 protesters arrested on charges of obstructing officers and impeding traffic during a protest against mountaintop mining.

(05/16/2012) In March 2012 the head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies and well - known climatologist, James Hansen, spoke at a TED conference to explain what would push a 70 - year - old scientist to participate in civil disobedience against mountaintop coal mining and the Keystone Pipeline, even leading to several arrests.

But the Bank has run up against a determined international resistance to its most controversial project to date — a pair of coal mega mine and export terminals that would ship millions of tons of coal through the Great Barrier Reef near Australia.

Peabody, which operates three coal mines in the Powder River Basin, has argued against climate change legislation at the national and international level, pushing instead for coal gasification and carbon sequestration technologies, under the name clean coal.

On September 30, 2010, a coalition of Native American and conservation groups filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of the Interior's Office of Surface Mining (OSM) for withholding records relating to Peabody Energy's coal - mining operations on tribal lands in northeast ArMining (OSM) for withholding records relating to Peabody Energy's coal - mining operations on tribal lands in northeast Armining operations on tribal lands in northeast Arizona.

On June 8, supporters of the March on Blair Mountain against mountaintop removal coal mining rallied outside the Environmental Protection Agency headquarters in Washington, DC, praising EPA for recent actions while skewering, by name, high - level pro-industry elected officials from Appalachia.

Grassroots groups, such as ICKD (Iskenderun Environmental Protection Association), Adana CETKO (Environmental Protection Association), and East Mediterranean Environmental Platform have been struggling against coal power plants, mines and other coal infrastructure to protect rights to live in a healthy environment has been going on since mid-90s.

It seems that the Heartland Farmers are happy to have incompetently run coal mines with their illness - causing pollution and greenhouse gasses in Australia — so long as they are somewhere else — but they are dead - set against wind turbines near them that will harm no one.

Around 100 people are arrested outside the White House during a protest against mountaintop removal coal mining, including the NASA climate scientist James E. Hansen.

The National Mining Association has argued against limiting mercury emissions by stating (34) «Regulations designed to further reduce mercury emissions must not jeopardize the nation's ability to utilize this domestic strategic energy resource and must not disadvantage any specific coal rank in the marketplace.»

Powder River Basin of Wyoming and Montana — A coalition of conservation groups today stepped up efforts to safeguard the climate from dirty energy, filing suit against the U.S. Bureau of Land Management over its approval of more than 350 million tons of new coal mining in the Powder River Basin of northeastern Wyoming.

This most recent stance against coal comes on the heels of President Obama's decision last week to freeze all new coal mining leases on federal land until the climate risks are incorporated into any leasing decision.

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Also a symposium speaker, Gunnoe spoke against mountaintop removal coal mining, a practice which has devastated many communities in Appalachia.

Coal mines in the UK were shut down amid a historic dispute between the Government and miners, and the declining cost of importing coal from elsewhere against the rising costs of domestic production, not because Britain had run out of cCoal mines in the UK were shut down amid a historic dispute between the Government and miners, and the declining cost of importing coal from elsewhere against the rising costs of domestic production, not because Britain had run out of ccoal from elsewhere against the rising costs of domestic production, not because Britain had run out of coalcoal.

In some underground mines, by design a portion of the coal is left intact as pillars to protect against surface collapse.

On March 2, 2010 the EPA announced that it had granted a Clean Water Act permit for the Hobet 45 mine in Lincoln County, West Virginia after Hobet Mining LLC, a company owned by Patriot Coal, had agreed to additional «significant protections» against environmental impacts.

Judy Bonds (d. 2011) was awarded the Prize in 2003 for her leadership efforts against mountain top removal coal mining in Appalachia.

Once Peabody was done mining a section of coal seam at Vermilion Grove, the company put wire fencing against the ceiling to keep loose pieces of the shale roof from falling to the tunnel floor.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled against the National Mining Association, the State of West Virginia, the Commonwealth of Kentucky, and other coal industry groups, who brought the case against the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers.

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Maria Gunnoe was awarded the Goldman Prize in 2009 for leading a campaign against the environmentally devastating practice of mountaintop removal coal mining (MTR).

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Julia «Judy» Bonds, a charismatic and tireless leader in the fight against mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia.

This matters because the longer it takes, the less competitive coal becomes against renewable energy sources and the more likely we are to see coal mines closed before they are exhausted.

In the heart of Appalachia, where the coal industry wields enormous power over government and public opinion, lifelong resident Maria Gunnoe fights against environmentally - devastating mountaintop removal mining and valley fill operations.

The action was part of the global #BreakFree2016 protests against fossil fuels, which saw a similar action last week in the UK when Reclaim the Power halted operations at the UK's largest open coal mine in Wales.

I'm still not entirely comfortable with nuclear but I admit ignorance there and thus don't really advocate directly against it (PS somewhat the same position with GM foods / crops); what I know enough to be afraid of and advocate against is a BAU future of coal, oil, and gas, especially one without CCS or other sequestration, with mountaintop removal mining, with tar sands, with fracking (you may already be aware of the radioactivity associated with that), Hg, escalating prices, etc (and you would be against this too, I'm sure).

One interesting debate was in Newcastle (NSW) where wine growers are against further coal development as the drought is damaging their vineyards and threatening jobs - but with the coal producers saying new mines are needed for local jobs.

In fact, I have openly and explicitly called for nonviolent civil disobedience against mountaintop removal coal mining in my home state of West Virginia.

Gunnoe won the Goldman Prize in 2009 for her fight against environmentally - devastating mountaintop removal coal mining and valley fill operations.

In the heart of Appalachia, where the coal industry wields enormous power over government and public opinion, lifelong resident and 2009 Goldman Prize winner Maria Gunnoe fights against environmentally - devastating mountaintop removal mining and valley fill operations.

And while the President lectures us about our sins against the planet, his EPA and other agencies embark on the project to impose penance on us by forcing the closure of coal and other fossil fuel power plants, blocking pipelines, bankrupting the coal mining industry, subsidizing intermittent power sources that can't possibly run a fully operational electrical grid at reasonable cost, and multiplying our cost of electricity by an order of magnitude or so.

Gareth Morgan is a market leader for mining compensation claims as a result of numerous successes against the Coal Board for a number of conditions including deafness, respiratory disease and vibration white finger.

Although he said in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission that independent spending does «not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption,» Justice Kennedy authored a ruling in Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co. that mining company executive Don Blankenship's $ 3 million in independent spending for a West Virginia justice gave rise to an unconstitutional «risk of actual bias» in a lawsuit against the company.