Sentences with phrase «coal by railroad»
The cost of hauling coal by railroad depends on the temperature of the rails and on the weight gain that occurs when coal is wetted by rainfall.
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Bacon: One size does not fit all September 21, 2015: In the unassuming city of Frontenac, a rural town in southeastern Kansas that's situated in a region flanked by railroad tracks and perhaps better - known in past decades for the prevalence of strip mining for coal, SugarCreek has quietly operated one of the Cincinnati, Ohio - based company's most productive bacon processing plants since 1982.
Plans by the railway ministry to double the volume of coal carried on dedicated railroads to 2.4 billion metric tons by 2015 will cut production costs, as will an ongoing mine consolidation.
The company was able to stop competition by influencing the railroad to charge high shipping costs to other coal companies.
I wrote, «This move was instigated by Glenn Schleede, president of NEECO's fuel subsidiary, New England Energy, and the leading militant in the coal industry's battle with the U.S. railroads over transportation rates.
Electricity's carbon risks could be managed by new nuclear plants and «clean coal,» sustaining and even bolstering many of the power sector's century - old institutions — traditional business models, vendors, and regulators, coal - mining, even railroads.