Sentences with phrase «coal extraction in»

Mining and ballads have gone together through the ages, from the early days of coal extraction in Britain and Wales on through another standard I sing in Uncle Wade — Merle Travis's «Dark as a Dungeon» — and forward to Sting's tune «We Work the Black Seam.»

She believes that is why, on Jan. 11, as she was boarding a flight to London to talk to British ministers about coal extraction in India, she was stopped.

Not exact matches

Likewise, any move toward using renewable energy sources will result in a quieter environment, as coal and oil extraction are extremely noisy labors.

I live in BC and have signed petitions against your President's plans to pillage your National Parks for the sake of coal and oil extraction!!

In cases where the resource will probably last for a couple of hundred years, on the other hand (as in Australian coal, for example, at current extraction rates), this logic may be less compellinIn cases where the resource will probably last for a couple of hundred years, on the other hand (as in Australian coal, for example, at current extraction rates), this logic may be less compellinin Australian coal, for example, at current extraction rates), this logic may be less compelling.

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In other cases, the story is more nuanced: For example, oil and gas extraction firms benefit, while the producers of petroleum and coal products lose, echoing the tension between refiners and oil - shale producers.

To say that the violence of coal extraction is inevitable is to despair of providing a description of the world as heading toward its redemption in Christ.

Probably far too complicated for this site, but the «costs» entirely disregards long - term costs - pollution, health problems (like coal extraction workers), and, obviously, the trillions in expected expenses from global warming effects, both responding to and trying to mitigate.

He pledges to lower corporate taxes; support a fence on the U.S. southern border to improve security; repeal the health care bill; issue tax credits to students attending non-public and charter schools; support domestic energy production, including oil drilling, coal mining and natural gas extraction; and invest in creating alternative energy sources.

In addition, the extraction of coal, from West Virginia to Wyoming, devastates the physical environment, and its processing and combustion produce gigantic volumes of waste.

Rather, he argues, climate - concerned governments and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) should pool their resources and buy up the extraction rights to coal and other fossil fuels from so - called «third countries» that choose not to participate in greenhouse gas - reducing collectives.

Although natural gas generates less greenhouse gas than coal when burned, when its total life - cycle emissions associated with extraction and distribution are factored in, it does not seem much cleaner than coal

Another method for reducing methane emissions, whether underground or on tracks of surface mining, lies in degasifying coal seams prior to extraction.

Although fracking in the U.S. produces more than 100 billion gallons of wastewater per year, the process requires significantly less water per unit of energy than extraction and processing for coal and nuclear power, according to past research by Jackson and his colleagues.

The actions suggest the government is not interested in setting right the environmental and social injustices of coal extraction, which Greenpeace's activists highlighted in Singrauli, said Ramana of Princeton University.

Their discovery could aid secure fracking — in which rocks below ground are split with high - pressure fluids — or extraction of methane gas from deep coal beds.

«Helium found in coal seams could aid safe shale gas extraction.»

Paul Epstein, associate director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School, details the economic, health and environmental costs associated with each stage in the life cycle of coal — extraction, transportation, processing, and combustion.

They should include people in gas country, where federal studies hopefully will soon clarify ways to responsibly expand extraction of a vital fuel (if you care even remotely about moving away from oil or limiting emissions from coal - burning power plants).

The accessible carbon pool in coal is sure to rise as prices increase and extraction technology advances, but the real imponderable is how much coal remains to be discovered.

When I am confronted by the threats to the integrity of these aspects of the world, whether through photos of the Tar Sands, or reading about mountain - top removal for coal extraction, or some other sight or story about degradation, I ache in a way that compels me to do something.

Many experts on China caution that most sources of data there should come with fat error bars, given past instances in which official estimates of activities ranging from coal extraction to fish catches proved to be way off.

«[Howarth et al.'s] analysis is seriously flawed in that they significantly overestimate the fugitive emissions associated with unconventional gas extraction, undervalue the contribution of «green technologies» to reducing those emissions to a level approaching that of conventional gas, base their comparison between gas and coal on heat rather than electricity generation (almost the sole use of coal), and assume a time interval over which to compute the relative climate impact of gas compared to coal that does not capture the contrast between the long residence time of CO2 and the short residence time of methane in the atmosphere.»

As we noted last week, it's about the politics of «the handful of folks who profit off of the oil, coal and gas extraction industries, and the personal pain theywould like to avoid in cutting into a single cent of the most profitable industry the world has ever known.»

With just a little more scientific and technological effort, the world will see a revolution in the extraction and conversion of coal to useful resource flows!

In fact, the indirect lifecycle emissions in a 2C pathway are much lower than in a world without climate policy, where methane leaks during coal and gas extraction are significanIn fact, the indirect lifecycle emissions in a 2C pathway are much lower than in a world without climate policy, where methane leaks during coal and gas extraction are significanin a 2C pathway are much lower than in a world without climate policy, where methane leaks during coal and gas extraction are significanin a world without climate policy, where methane leaks during coal and gas extraction are significant.

On behalf of Kentuckians for the Commonwealth — I'm a member of — and for all those thousands of people, folks in the mountains who have lost loved ones due to the carcinogenic heavy metals blown out of the earth and poisoning our waters by this hellish, murderous extraction of coal called mountaintop removal — to represent them, I stand proudly in defiance of Governor Steven Beshear, McConnell, King Coal and all the King's lap puppies in the statehouses of Kentucky and West Virginia and those here in Washington, DC, who put corporate gains over people's licoal called mountaintop removal — to represent them, I stand proudly in defiance of Governor Steven Beshear, McConnell, King Coal and all the King's lap puppies in the statehouses of Kentucky and West Virginia and those here in Washington, DC, who put corporate gains over people's liCoal and all the King's lap puppies in the statehouses of Kentucky and West Virginia and those here in Washington, DC, who put corporate gains over people's lives.

Pacific Climate Warriors stood in solidarity with German communities who are fighting the frontlines of coal extraction with creative tactics and determination.

Separate production models were developed for mining (coal and unconventional oil) and field (gas and conventional oil) operations, which reflected the basic differences in extraction and processing techniques.

Gazprom's (OTCQX: GZPFY) reaction to shale gas, until recently, has been to dismiss it as a short lived phenomenon while pushing ahead as hard as possible with the extraction of coal bed methane and going full steam ahead with the game changing vista of Arctic oil and gas, which I will look at in a separate blog.

In response to this extraction and abuse, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth formed to lead Kentucky in a transition away from an economy dominated by coal, anchoring the work of the Our Power Campaign throughout the Bluegrass StatIn response to this extraction and abuse, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth formed to lead Kentucky in a transition away from an economy dominated by coal, anchoring the work of the Our Power Campaign throughout the Bluegrass Statin a transition away from an economy dominated by coal, anchoring the work of the Our Power Campaign throughout the Bluegrass State.

Thus, the NETL analysis concluded that there was little difference in the total amount of life cycle climate pollution between «U.S. LNG exports for power production in European and Asian markets... when compared to regional coal extraction and consumption for power production.»

We are also facing extreme extraction of fossil fuels, in particular coal mining, hydraulic fracking, and tar sands, as well as tar sands pipelines.

Why not compare coal extraction and transport, oil extraction and transport, gas extraction and transport and the extraction and transport and processing of all the materials involved in the life cycle of a solar PV cell or a wind farm?

«Between 2010 and 2014, the oil, coal, gas, utility, and natural resource extraction industries spent $ 1.8 bn on lobbying, much of it in defence of these giveaways,» according to Sanders and Ellison.

Solar jobs now outnumber coal mining jobs two - to - one and are quickly catching up to jobs in oil and gas extraction, as well.

The climate movement is pointing out that unconventional fossil fuel extraction techniques (fracking, tar sands excavation, deep - water drilling, mountaintop removal coal mining) are leaving or will leave toxic wastes and scars on the landscape as the fossil fuel industry gouges and lacerates the earth in search of combustible fossil resources.

Our states and territory governments certainly don't need to approve new coal or gas extraction projects in order to «keep the lights on» within Australia.

If all new coal and gas extraction projects are slated for export, why do state and territory governments even consider allowing new fossil fuel extraction projects despite the climate imperative of keeping fossil fuels in the ground, and despite often fierce community opposition?

Oil and gas lease sales, royalties from mineral and energy production, Alaska's «Open for Business» initiative, renewable energy development, mineral extraction, the future of coal production from public lands, offshore renewable energy development, and oil and gas exploration and drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf were just some of the topics discussed.

New coal and onshore gas extraction would attract state royalties, but based on historical figures (see Point 7 above) the amounts are likely to be less than one might expect, partidularly since new extraction projects tend to receive more in subsidies and other state government assistance than established projects.

Since a sustainable future based on the continued extraction of coal, oil and gas in the «business - as - usual mode» will not be possible because of both resource depletion and environmental damages (as caused, e.g., by dangerous sea level rise) we urge our societies to -LSB-...] Reduce the concentrations of warming air pollutants (dark soot, methane, lower atmosphere ozone, and hydrofluorocarbons) by as much as 50 % [and] cut the climate forcers that have short atmospheric lifetimes.

In areas where extractions costs are abnormally low «clean coal» may make some sense.

23 Fossil Fuels Advantages Relatively Cheap High energy density Fossil Fuels Advantages Relatively Cheap High energy density Used by a wide variety of engines and devices Extensive distribution network in place Disadvantages Nonrenewable - will deplete soon Combustion by - products pollute — acid rain and contain greenhouse gases Extraction can damage the environment Coal - fired power plants require large amounts of fuel

The study, which was released in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, tallied the economic, health and environmental costs associated with each stage in the life cycle of coal — extraction, transportation, processing, and combustion - and estimated those costs, which are borne by the public at large, to be between $ 175 billion and $ 500 billion dollars annually.

The commentary, published in the British scientific journal, Nature Climate Change, estimated the impact of consuming the fuel from oilsands deposits â $» without factoring in greenhouse gas emissions associated with extraction and production â $» would be far less harmful to the planet's atmosphere than consuming all of the world's coal resources.

Since 2004, coal extraction has grown significantly in China.

«In truth only one component of the CO2 budget is known with any certainty, human emissions, implicitly through records of extraction - how much coal and oil are dug up»

A moratorium on Underground Coal Gasification was put in place on 8 October 2015, separately from the ongoing moratorium on shale gas fracking and coalbed methane extraction.