Sentences with phrase «back coal mines»

Most of that money went toward new and existing coal - fired power plants, though some helped back coal mines and power plant emission control operations.

Rolling back power plant regulations on coal and rolling back coal mining regulations should reduce both the cost to use coal and the cost to mine it.

Trump has also made sweeping promises about bringing back coal mining jobs.

For example, even though Trump has vowed to bring back coal mining jobs, the coal extraction industry is on its last breaths, primarily as a result of energy market forces.

Not exact matches

Businesses large and small have been making the case that they can't afford paying more for labour going back to when laws were first proposed to curb the use of seven year - olds in coal mines or put an end to 16 - hour workdays.

West Virginia coal mining jobs are not coming back.

Once in power, Trump and Pruitt have moved to delay or roll back federal regulations limiting greenhouse gas emissions while pledging to revive the long - struggling U.S. coal mines.

There are no coal mining jobs coming back,» Cuban said.

McKibben noted that the government is also backing a new coal mine in Central Queensland.

On the campaign trail, Trump vowed to bring back coal - mining jobs and dismantle Obama's environmental policy, declaring climate change a «hoax.»

A federally backed national rural innovation fund would send a strong message that there is more to rural America than just shuttered factories and abandoned coal mines.

BHP Billiton said on Thursday jobs could go at its Australian coal mines as the company faces a deteriorating market, the latest sign of global miners scaling back operations due to slowing industrial activity in China.

Back in August 2015, the US coal mining giant Alpha Natural Resources filed for bankruptcy, facing billions in debt.

Youths pack the coal into sacks and carry it out of the mine on their backs, or to a small cable car for the trip upward.

«To coal and iron mines, to freight trains, to fishing fleets in December, to dishwashing, clothes - washing, and window - washing, to road - building and tunnel - making, to foundries and stoke - holes, and to the frames of skyscrapers, would our gilded youths be drafted off, according to their choice, to get the childishness knocked out of them, and to come back into society with healthier sympathies and more sober ideas.

Barnaby Joyce has given conditional backing to Rio Tinto's decision to sell coal mining assets to Chinese controlled miner Yancoal.

Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce has given conditional backing to Rio Tinto's decision to sell two of its major Australian coal mining assets to Chinese controlled miner Yancoal which is yet to gain Foreign Investment Review Board approval.

Three elements commonly found at elevated levels in an Appalachian river polluted by runoff from mountaintop coal mining have distinctive chemistries that can be traced back to their source, according to a Duke University - led study.

«The announcement by the EPA is another back - door attempt by President Obama to fulfill his long - term commitment to shut down our nation's coal mines,» said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R - Ky.)

But its original source may be coal - burning power plants, or pollution from mercury mines dating back to the gold rush.

So, spunky Heather and her hunky high school friend Vincent Carter (Kit Harington from TV's «Game of Thrones») must go back to the cursed coal mining town rescue him from the demonic doppelganger Alessa, whose blood sacrifice caused the town's original damnation.

When they learn that corrupt political kingpin Boss Hogg (Burt Reynolds) is evicting farmers so he can sell their land to an evil coal mining operation, the boys and their comely cousin Daisy (Jessica Simpson) decide to fight back.

Chloe Sevigny is Alicia, Lady Susan's confidant and gossip buddy... and one whose husband (Stephen Fry) continually threatens to ship back to Connecticut (as if it were the coal mines or outback).

Amos is just back home when the town is rocked by the disappearance of a teenage boy, the son of Diane Doyle (Elizabeth Banks) and her husband Bill (Josh Lucas), the coal mine middle manager many blame for the disaster.

Before leaving this beautiful park we'll have lunch and then hike back along the canyon rim to an abandoned coal mine to explore some relics.

Brush these requests off and they'll come back later with tougher demands, but accept and accomplish these little quests and your people will gain hope, although failing comes with consequences There are also the various events you encounter via your exploration teams who are exploring the wasteland, stumbling upon refugees, abandoned cities, coal mines and more.

In one example from the report, government - backed Yancoa last year bought Rio Tinto's thermal coal mine operations in Australia's Hunter Valley.

While only five jobs were added by coal firms since 2016, more than 100 contract employees are back in the mining business.

He wants to send people back down the coal mines, abandon fuel efficiency standards and defund research into renewable energy.

Because wind turbines require minimum spacing distances to maximize wind energy capture, the physical footprint of wind power is extensive but can be mitigated, whereas decapitated mountains in Appalachia sacrificed for surface coal mining will never grow back.

But even he admitted it won't bring coal back to the»90s or» 00s glory, under - mining his point.

Coal has no place in the clean energy economy that will put Americans back to work and further coal mining is unnecessarily devastating to our land, air and water.&raCoal has no place in the clean energy economy that will put Americans back to work and further coal mining is unnecessarily devastating to our land, air and water.&racoal mining is unnecessarily devastating to our land, air and water.»

He doesn't seem to have worked out that the British Green movement has stabbed him and the coal mining industry in the back.

Other listed members of the Clexit group include the Heartland Institute's Jay Lehr, coal backed Canadian denialist Patrick Moore and Australian mining figure Ian Plimer.

As one of the few landowners left in the area, Bowman became a key plaintiff in a public interest lawsuit to fight back Yancoal's expasion of the Ashton coal mine.

The Warriors reflected on Sunday's powerful events — the symbolic rain during the sevusevu ceremony inviting the spirit and presence of ancestors, and the thousands of activists who entered the mine with Ende Gelände as a kind of resurrection, bringing life back into Germany's bleak dead coal mines.

But his administration has also vowed to scale back an EPA rule to limit ground - level ozone pollution, as well as an Interior Department rule to protect streams from coal - mining waste.

Citizens in the Czech Republic have been spared the worst of plans for new coal this week, although the Czech government went back on its word to block the outright expansion of two mines in the north of the country.

On Nov. 15, St. Louis - based Patriot Coal agreed to phase out its mountaintop excavations and redirect its efforts back to underground mining.

NEWS: Bank says it will stop funding new coal mines or plants in the 30 OECD nations, but could still back projects in developing world

Let's say we shut down and decommissioned coal mines and coal - fired power plants, stopped new offshore drilling for oil and gas plus the development of shale oil and gas, moved away from nuclear power as too risky, spent trillions to subsidize non-viable windmills and solar panels to squeak by in avoiding a total blackout by imposing exorbitant taxes on energy in order to force people to cut back its use.

It charges a slowly rising fee on fossil fuel producers at the entry point to our economy (coal mine, gas / oil well or import terminal) but then returns 100 percent of the fee (less administrative costs) back to all consumers equally via a monthly dividend check.

In fact right now in may back nearly 9 gigawatts of humungous coal - fired power plants in India and South Africa.A final review for the 3.96 GW Sasan Ultra Mega Power & Mine Project in India and another loan for the 4.8 GW Kusile coal project in South Africa are currently in process.

In real terms, this means the bank is turning its back on the coal mining industry and committing to energy efficiency and renewable energy.»

And even if he could, he can't bring back the jobs because its the coal industry itself that wiped out most of those jobs through productivity gains from «strip mines and machinery,» as Nobel Prize - winning economist Paul Krugman explained in 2014.

Going back to Omar's article, is Heenan Blaikie the «canary in the coal mine» or is just an isolated incident?

This certainly seems to stop any moves to extend the consultation requirement back into that «strategic or commercial decision», unless of course it is a «closure» case where UK law may now be in advance of EC law as a result of the decision of the EAT in UK Coal Mining Ltd v NUM [2008] IRLR 4.