Sentences with phrase «associated coal mines»

Closing a coal - fired power plant and its associated coal mines might seem like a real offset, but no — that's what a reduction would look like.

This project is not a conventional coal mine methane project, since there are no associated coal mining operations.

Not exact matches

The initial stance was to generate discussion in regards to the negative impacts associated with areas of interest outside of coal mining, specifically those that will worsen once coal mining subsides.

Massey's name, now closely associated with MTR and the most deadly mine disaster in the past 20 years, has turned as black as the coal they mine.

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.

For the coal system, the study estimates the toxicity associated with air pollutants emitted during power generation, as well as toxic chemical releases during the coal - mining process from acid - mine drainage and coal - ash impoundment.

«Obesity, is known to be associated with this form of inflammation,» though this recent paper argues that obesity may be more of a canary in the coal mine.

West Virginia, the small American state best known for its «Wild & Wonderful» motto, ravaged coal mines, and rich Appalachian history, might seem an unlikely birthplace for UFO phenomenology; after all, most people associate aliens and flying saucers with Roswell, New Mexico's otherworldly desert landscape.

Moreover, another set of cancer - causing chemicals found in similar wastewater associated with coal - bed methane mining was not observed.

All and all have there not been less injuries associated with nuclear energy than those resulting from coal mining and exposure to air contaminants from burning coal?

For example, a tax on coal that incorporated the increased health care costs associated with mining it and breathing polluted air, the costs of damage from acid rain, and the costs of climate disruption would encourage investment in clean renewable sources of energy such as wind or solar.

Mined coal is of variable quality and is frequently associated with mineral and chemical material including clay, sand, sulphur and trace elements.

A Feb. 2011 report, «Mining Coal, Mounting Costs: the Life Cycle Consequences of Coal,» led by associate director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School Dr. Paul Epstein, found that accounting for the full costs of coal would double or triple its prCoal, Mounting Costs: the Life Cycle Consequences of Coal,» led by associate director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School Dr. Paul Epstein, found that accounting for the full costs of coal would double or triple its prCoal,» led by associate director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School Dr. Paul Epstein, found that accounting for the full costs of coal would double or triple its prcoal would double or triple its price.

Note that this includes only the carbon pollution emitted when the coal is burned, and does not include the carbon and methane pollution associated with the mining, processing, and transporting of the coal.

The recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and recent coal - mine disasters (not to mention mountaintop removal) have reminded Americans of the risks associated with oil drilling and coal mining.

That's true even when one counts the energy - intensive tar sands extraction and processing — and, of course, there are plenty of upstream emissions associated with coal mining that I've left out of the equation here.

Australians who are intelligent enough to see the damage that climate change will bring with it, and who have not been corrupted by the greed that is associated with the coal industry, are fiercely opposed to allowing any more coal mining.

Hamilton in particular referred to the permit process associated with Arch Coal Company's Spruce Mine, which he called «the most egregious example» of the «permitorium,» as the approval process had taken more than six years.

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).

During this time period, emissions increased from sources associated with agricultural activities, while emissions decreased from sources associated with landfills, coal mining, and the exploration through distribution of natural gas and petroleum products.

And of all unlikely suitors, Greenpeace piped up to purchase one of Europe's largest coal mines, along with its associated power plants.

International law firm Pinsent Masons has advised on one of the first projects to be financed under China's «One Belt One Road» initiative - Thar Block II coal mine in Pakistan and two associated 330 - megawatt power plants.