Sentences with phrase «blow up the mountains»

In our nation's rush to get «cheap» energy in the form of coal from the ground, energy companies have begun to blow up the mountains.

He tied climate science to the imperative of ending our dependence on coal — thus adding another dimension of leadership and support to Appalachian residents who are confronted with the practice of blowing up mountains and dumping the debris into nearby streams and valleys to reach seams of coal.

Of course the jobs they are «saving» are those of oil drillers and those who blow up mountains in West Virginia to get at the coal, and squelching jobs for solar rooftop installers and wind developers.

Every day, 5.5 million pounds of explosives — a mix of diesel fuel and ammonium nitrate — are used to blow up the mountains of southern West Virginia and eastern Kentucky.

When I was a kid in 1950's Los Angeles, watching folks drop like flies from smog inversions, a proposed solution to air pollution was to blow up a mountain at the periphery of the Valley — using an atomic device!

«Mountaineers will never be free until the madness of blowing up mountains and burying streams ends.

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Maybe we'll tell them about the night we went camping in the mountains of New Mexico and a blizzard blew up, so we drove down the mountain to stay in a hotel, leaving our kit and tent all set up.

They had royally blown it when Moses was up on the mountain speaking with God.

By now, 500 mountains have been blown up and over 2,000 miles of streams have been buried as a result of mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining.

I like being out in the mountains, up in the fresh air and the sunshine with the breeze blowing, and you can see all the way across from one side of Italy to the other, so geology appealed to me.

They are typically generated at high altitudes by stratospheric mountain waves — when strong winds that blow over the tops of high mountains are driven up towards space.

For many of the fights, characters are blowing up the environment around them and throwing characters through entire mountains.

The front page of The New York Times last Tuesday trumpeted a cover - up: The U.S. Department of Education had «buried in mountains of data» a set of statistics that «deals a blow» to charter schools, which are self - governing, deregulated public schools.

But as the rain is coming down in wind - blown sheets on the chilly mountain two - lane of British Columbia's Highway 99, I'm plenty comfortable, feeling like a toasted biscuit with the heated seats and heated steering wheel both cranked up.

This was followed by a cable car ride up Sugar Loaf Mountain where, while you are waiting to get onboard, they show a clip from a James Bond film where the cable car that you are in blows up and crashes into the side of the mMountain where, while you are waiting to get onboard, they show a clip from a James Bond film where the cable car that you are in blows up and crashes into the side of the mountainmountain.

At the end, after you have blown up the fuel depot, There will be two old looking buildings by the mountain - dead end.

A cutscene will play, showing the mountain being blown up.

Between the action words that blow up on screen (Think «mighty» and «wow») and the Youtube trailer featuring the iconic classical song «In the Hall of the Mountain King,» the game looks to play at a frenetic pace for non-stop fun.

The Divine isn't afraid to face down dragons both figurative and literal; there is an actual dragon spirit slumbering in the mineral - rich mountain Mark has been hired to blow up.

Objectives: Exterminate any leftover gold spiders, blow up any conspicuous boulders, go to Death Mountain, go to Hyrule Castle, dive for the Ocarina of Time in the moat, learn the Song of Time, enter the Temple of Time, play the Song of Time at the altar, and enter the Door of Time, and draw the master sword.

In the Rural parts of America, it may be a little different from the prehistoric era or epic mountains but Far Cry 5 has a giant world to explore and even more things you can blow up — including cultist followers trying to constantly murder you.

One time I'd literally walk 20ft from the shop and ended up with a mountain of corpses and blown up cars around me.

Mountaintop removal is a radical form of coal mining where entire mountains are literally blown up — devastating communities throughout Appalachia, polluting drinking water and destroying rivers.

Coal companies and their lobbyists are pushing for more than 100 new mountaintop removal mining permits, seeking permission to blow more mountains up and destroy more mountain streams in even more communities.

Hundreds of mountains have been blown up for the coal beneath.

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Blowing up this much mountain is accomplished by using millions of pounds of explosives.

Prospecting, mining, storing, transporting, refining, burning, cleaning up the mess from, fighting wars over, wild price fluctuations, huge military costs for protection, blowing the tops off thousands of mountains or billion gallon coal fly ash sludge spills, or oil spills or nuclear accidents or radioactive waste storage problems, or running out of fuel resources.

You might get a change of a year or so one way or another depending on the number of forests cleared, mountains blown up etc. but that is just a wild guess.