Sentences with phrase «between coal mining»

We also get to hear his views on the relationship between coal mining and Australia's Labour Party.

Researchers, some of whom are using our data, are beginning to draw troubling connections between coal mining and the health of people living in communities near those operations.

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In northeastern England, a battle is raging between grass roots campaigners and a company intent on digging a new open cast mine as world coal prices soar.

Given the globally accepted link between carbon emissions, climate change and reef bleaching, the decision to approve the Carmichael coal mine in Queensland right next to the Great Barrier Reef really is adding insult to injury.

But the agency did agree the rule would make certain mining projects uneconomic and reduce annual coal employment by 124 jobs between now and 2040, thanks to lower production.

However, I never really felt that in running our gold mine, the Falcons organization really knew the difference between coal and gold.

Regulations on the coal industry are driving massive layoffs and the shuttering of coal plants in Pennsylvania, injecting environmental issues into that state's hotly contested Senate race between incumbent Democrat Bob Casey Jr. and Republican challenger and coal mining executive Tom Smith.

According to a RAN report published in June, 25 banks, including Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and BNP Paribas, have invested $ 784 billion in coal mining, coal power, «extreme oil» and liquefied natural gas facilities between 2013 and 2015 (ClimateWire, June 15).

«There is still a disconnect between what Australia does to protect the reef and granting permits for coal mining and turning away from renewable energy,» Hughes adds.

Underground coal and uranium mining, and oil recovery enhancement extraction use between two - and - a-half to 13 times more water per unit of energy produced.

Faced with a choice between installing expensive pollution - control equipment or switching to low - sulfur coal mined outside Illinois, power companies overwhelmingly chose the latter.

On predominantly washboard tarmac, the difference in ride between the comfort and the dynamic settings was as stark as the difference in visibility between a lunar eclipse and a power failure in a coal mine.

The work of Gian Butturini and Frank Habicht show the euphoria of the Swinging Sixties and the anti-War movement, while Robert Frank's portrayal of life in London alongside the coal mining towns of South Wales in the early 1950s charts the rise of a British corporate culture and brings into sharp relief the relationship between wealth and poverty.

In the last few days, three online tools have been launched, showing links between utilities and Appalachian mountaintop coal mines, a list of proposed coal - burning plants and the amount of carbon dioxide emissions from thousands of power plants and utilities around the world.

Here's an excerpt making his prime point, followed by more from Schendler on a climate - friendly energy deal he just helped broker between his employer, which runs four of the region's marquee * ski resorts, and a coal mine owner whose company is a member of a group promoting the myth that global warming is a «great delusion.»

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.

The presidents welcomed: (i) a grant from the U.S. Trade and Development Agency to the China Power Engineering and Consulting Group Corporation to support a feasibility study for an integrated gasification combined cycle (I.G.C.C.) power plant in China using American technology, (ii) an agreement by Missouri - based Peabody Energy to invest and participate in GreenGen, a project of several major Chinese energy companies to develop a near - zero emissions coal - fired power plant, (iii) an agreement between G.E. and Shenhua Corporation to collaborate on the development and deployment of I.G.C.C. and other clean coal technologies; and (iv) an agreement between AES and Songzao Coal and Electric Company to use methane captured from a coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissicoal - fired power plant, (iii) an agreement between G.E. and Shenhua Corporation to collaborate on the development and deployment of I.G.C.C. and other clean coal technologies; and (iv) an agreement between AES and Songzao Coal and Electric Company to use methane captured from a coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissicoal technologies; and (iv) an agreement between AES and Songzao Coal and Electric Company to use methane captured from a coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissiCoal and Electric Company to use methane captured from a coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissicoal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

According to SNL Energy, between the end of 2011 and mid-2014, U.S. employment at coal mines fell by more than 13,000 — or about 14 percent.

Home to more than 300 coal mines but also on the frontline of rising seas, Virginia is split along familiar lines — between those who are seeking to keep the coal industry alive and those seeking cleaner energy alternatives and climate change solutions.

Despite the link between the Powder River Basin and global warming, the U.S. Interior Department, which oversees the coal in the region, is pushing for ramped up strip mining.

Between 2007 and 2016, coal production and consumption both fell by more than a third, and mining jobs fell from 125,000 to 75,000.

The Coalfields Expressway project, which I described as a «mountaintop removal coal mine in disguise» in a prior post, is a public - private partnership between the Commonwealth of Virginia and coal mining companies, including Alpha Natural Resources.

Despite the link between the Powder River Basin and global warming, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar recently proposed to sign off on twelve new coal leases totaling up to 5.7 billion tons of new mining in the region.

But there is clearly a major mismatch between the straight line on your UK Hubbert analysis, and the fact that private commercial companies are opening new coal mines in South Wales.

Between 2006 and 2011, the Denver - metro area saw a 35 % increase in direct employment growth in the clean energy sector; today more people are employed by the solar industry than the coal mining or steel manufacturing industries.

The industry's plan B, to export production to assumed perennial growth markets in Asia, has also floundered amid a global market awash with supply from other countries and weak demand; Chinese coal consumption fell nearly 3 % in 2014 while India, the world's third largest buyer, says it may stop imports of thermal coal in the next three years With domestic markets collapsing and no lifeline from abroad, 264 [1] US mines were closed between 2011 and 2013.

As coal mining companies rush to extract this coal to meet India's huge energy demands, conflicts between local villagers and the coal companies have become more common, especially since traditional agricultural communities are rarely given a say in whether and where mining projects will occur.

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.

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.

Cleaning up soot pollution could prevent between 700,000 and 4.7 million premature deaths each year, according to the international team of researchers, while capturing methane from coal mines, landfills, and agricultural waste can yield natural gas, a less carbon intensive and increasingly valuable fuel.

The report estimated that between 2013 and 2015, banks put up $ 42 billion for companies active in coal mining, $ 154 billion for the 20 largest coal - fired power producers and $ 306 billion for companies that drill «extreme oil» (such as resources that lie deep under water).

(In central Appalachia, coal mine productivity fell 45 percent, an average of 5.9 percent per year, between 2000 and 2010.)

Because the vast majority (96.5 %) of this coal is from mines in Wyoming, these average results will most closely reflect those coal leases, which are sub-bituminous coal, with relatively low BTU values between 8501 and 9011, and as noted above, expected by the Interior Department to be mined between 2015 and 2030.

Between Friday and Sunday, excavation was stopped in part of the pit and 80 coal train trips were stopped between the mine and the power plant that burns its coal, which powered down to just 20 % of its caBetween Friday and Sunday, excavation was stopped in part of the pit and 80 coal train trips were stopped between the mine and the power plant that burns its coal, which powered down to just 20 % of its cabetween the mine and the power plant that burns its coal, which powered down to just 20 % of its capacity.

She divides her time between her home in Johannesburg and the Earthlife satellite office in the Limpopo province, where pollution from power stations and coal mines has contaminated local communities to such an extent that farmers can no longer safely grow crops.

[5] Judge Sippel's motion to dismiss cited Holmstead's «multiple conflicts of interest» in reference to his career between EPA and as a representative for coal mining and utility company clients.

Exporting coal from the US to overseas markets means an increase coal mining activity and an increase in train traffic through communities between the mines and coastal export terminals.

As the tobacco industry invested millions in keeping its deadly secret, so also have the oil, coal, gas, and mining industries attempted to hide and discredit the link between CO2 emissions and a warming earth.»

The world faces a choice between fossil fuels — coal mines, fracking for gas, air pollution that kills millions of people each year world - wide — or clean, green, renewable energy.

Foley Hoag has once again secured a victory for Venezuela in claims arising out of a coal supply agreement between Nova Scotia Power Inc. (NSPI), a Canadian power company, and Guasare Coal International (now Carbozulia International), the foreign marketing arm of a mixed foreign Venezuelan entity mining coal in Zulia, Venezucoal supply agreement between Nova Scotia Power Inc. (NSPI), a Canadian power company, and Guasare Coal International (now Carbozulia International), the foreign marketing arm of a mixed foreign Venezuelan entity mining coal in Zulia, VenezuCoal International (now Carbozulia International), the foreign marketing arm of a mixed foreign Venezuelan entity mining coal in Zulia, Venezucoal in Zulia, Venezuela.

To follow common or related issues of fact or law in respect of the alledged liability of the National Coal Board and / or British Coal Corporation (NCB / BCC) their successors the Department for Trade & Industry (DTI) for chronic knee injury suffered by their employees as a result of underground work in mines between 1949 and 1994, where chronic knee injury means diabling symptoms of the knee joint (s) resulting from damage to the menisci and / or osteoarthritis, but does not include bursitis.

1,137 mine workers have lost their lives in 919 coal mine accidents according to figures compiled by DGMS between 2001 and 2011.