Sentences with phrase «by coal trains»

The rail capacity consumed by coal trains limit expansion of passenger trains and impairs trains ability to cost - effectively and quickly transport Washington's other products.

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During his career, he has been Operations Executive at Zimasco in Zimbabwe, one of Africa's largest integrated ferrochrome producer, Head of Training and Development at the Hwange Colliery, Zimbabwe's largest coal producer and Head of HR at LionOre Mining's Africa division, until its acquisition by Norilsk Nickel.

A nomadic horseman herds cattle among shadows cast by the nation's first wind farm, while a few hundred metres away, a train with more than 60 carriages ships coal from an enormous mine.

Colstrip United co-founder Shaw recalled watching trains filled with coal rumbling by when she was a child.

Exactly as tedious as Steamboy, then, and covering exactly the same ground, Howl's Moving Castle shares with Ôtomo's film, too, a giant steam - powered ball as its central image, encapsulating a vision of Victorian England in a Frankenstein's yin / yang clattering along inexorably like the Industrial Revolution while gorgeous impressionistic watercolour towns are polluted by coal smoke from a fleet of trains burning through the forests at night.

He spent a week in an underground mine in Pennsylvania, hiked through West Virginia with anti-mountaintop removal activists, rode a coal train through the Black Hills of South Dakota, toured coal plants in China, and spent a month in the North Atlantic with climate scientists aboard the R / V Knorr, a research vessel operated by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

To a traveler arriving on the morning train — by now an expert on Pennsylvania coal towns — the hat shop and dry - goods store, the pharmacy and mercantile, seem built to last.

Owned and operated by American Heritage Railways, the locomotives used to pull today's train are 1923 - 25 vintage and remain 100 % coal - fired and steam operated, providing year - round passenger rail service.

Microsoft's Aaron Greenberg has stoked the coals of the hype train a little more by suggesting that Microsoft have tons of exclusives» to show off at E3 this year, also hinting that the next - gen console, codenamed Durango, might emerge this holiday season.

The former of these works was commissioned by the Kunsthalle Recklinghausen — a gallery set in one of Germany's coalmining regions — and appears as a huge mound of black coal, interspersed with red diodes, which is encircled by another part of the commission — Time Train to the Holocaust (2008).

Lots of images: Russian roulette, elephant in the living room that everyone is ignoring, 800 pound gorilla in the room that nobody is paying attention to, canary in the coal mine (Arctic ice melting rapidly year by year now), a train wreck in slow motion, the list goes on and on.

Postscript, Jan. 24, 2:10 p.m. Click here to listen to (and watch) «Coal Train Blues,» performed by the Counterfeit [Johnny] Cash band from Portland, Ore..

Every night an old coal train chugs in to central Beijing to deliver its load to the Guohua power plant, one of the city's oldest power stations now surrounded by glitzy malls and towering apartment blocks.

I don't see how any informed person could drive by 20 miles of coal trains and not see them as trains of death.

He has used strong words and imagery before to drive home points, including comparing cordons of coal cars heading to power plants to the death trains of the Holocaust (because of the mass extinctions foreseen by many biologists should warming go unabated).

The next round of impacts occurs in connection with transport, including dust, coal spills, and disruption of communities by mile - long coal trains.

Protesters assembled by Portland's Reed College entered the banks as mock coal export trains, which they believed will expose Northwest residents to coal dust, diesel fumes and noise pollution if the coal export facility near Longview becomes operational.

This is the kind of stuff that they peddle to justify their carbon neutral diktat and adherence to the Paris Discord, and TPP -LRB-- US), Leftist shorthand for the eco-marxist globalist success of orchestrated economic collapse and national suicide, and tragically, like all Leftist conflagrations, it augers the relentless inevitability of mounds of corpses, already hinted at by the exploding heads of school children, or easy reference to coal trains, or recurrent reference to executing those who commit climatism denial.

Further, the coal train traffic generated by this proposal will increase air pollution, which will impact the lung health of adults and children in Montana and globally.

The unit trains that transport coal could be substituted, or accompanied, by unit «paper trains» transporting compacted paper fiber from the northeastern states.

Most coal, almost 60 percent, for at least part way is transported by train.

Communities bisected by rail, such as Missoula, MT or Marysville, WA face tremendous delays that disrupt daily life as a result of the quantity of trains needed to transport millions of tons of coal.

And, backed by science from James E. Hansen of «coal death train» fame, Al Gore will spearhead the new drive to save our planet by shutting down all coal - fired power stations in order to stop aerosol and particulate pollution that is hastening the man - made global winter.

Lots of Washington voters, primed by years of activist campaigns against oil trains and coal terminals in the Pacific Northwest, were ready for climate action.

By contrast, it takes many train cars of coal to produce the same energy — with correspondingly larger environmental effects.

Coal is also stored on - site at mines and coal export terminals, and roughly 67 percent of it is delivered by train, typically in uncovered freight cCoal is also stored on - site at mines and coal export terminals, and roughly 67 percent of it is delivered by train, typically in uncovered freight ccoal export terminals, and roughly 67 percent of it is delivered by train, typically in uncovered freight cars.

Some coal freight traffic — about six trains per day — passes by the waterfront, from the Powder River Basin 1,000 miles (1,610 kilometers) to the east en route to and from British Columbia.

The authors present the image of a coal train that stretches 55,000 miles, long enough to circle the globe twice, carrying 314 million metric tons of carbon - the amount of CO2 emitted by U.S. cars and trucks in the year 2004.

These impacts are magnified by the transportation and combustion of coal — from the trains, trucks, and tractors used to transport coal to polluting power plants, all of which heavily contribute to greenhouse gas emissions, pollution, and climate change.

I recall one of the big Amtrak delays is to get out of the way of coal trains, and another is for the maintenance demanded by the heavy traffic.

The system provides an easy and more intelligent mechanism to pre-plan the off - load, and load, of the coal by creating plans for the transport routes of the coal based on the arrival schedule of the trains and the arrival schedule of the ships.