Sentences with phrase «coal mine accidents»

Now look at the coal accidents (the brown line).

Not exact matches

The accident offered new reasons to oppose carbon - belching sources like coal and oilsands.

Coal, meanwhile, is believed responsible for a host of more quotidian problems, such as mining accidents, acid rain and greenhouse gas emissions.

In «Little Accidents,» a drama set in a West Virginia coal - mining town, a boy, a woman and a man become inextricably and painfully linked in the aftermath of a mine explosion that left nine men dead.

When interrogated on the safety of the coal mine, Amos squirms in his chair, his eyes to the floor as he insists on having no memory of the accident.

Little Accidents reminds us of this and shows how tragedy is able to divide the small community of Beckley, West Virginia when ten coal miners die in a collapsed mine.

Little Accidents tells the story of a coal - mining town in West Virginia that is struggling to recover from a mine accident that killed 10 men.

Shot in the real coal town of Beckley, W.V., Colangelo's film takes place in the aftermath of a fatal mining accident that has left 10 miners dead and a lot of people speculating about who's to blame for the tragedy.

«Little Accidents» (Not rated) A teenager goes missing in a small town just after ten men die in a coal mining accident in this dark, atmospheric, well - acted indie starring Elizabeth Banks and Boyd Holbrook.

Little Accidents / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Sara Colangelo)-- In a small American coal town living in the shadow of a recent mining accident, the disappearance of a teenage boy draws three people together — a surviving miner, the lonely wife of a mine executive, and a local boy — in a web of secrets.

How many thousands of people die every year in coal mining accidents?

I have a tune «Black Bird» — true tale, no relation to the Paul McCartney ditty — about a coal - mining accident on my Myspace.com/AndyRevkin page.

I stumbled on this true tale about seven years ago, when Jerry Krenach, a friend and Uncle Wade bandmate, mentioned in passing that a great grandfather of his from coal country in Pennsylvania, John Zalabonich, had died in a mining accident.

And yet, in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima accident, Japan closed its nuclear plants and has indicated it will build dozens of new coal plants to replace them [7].

A coal - export terminal proposed in Washington state would increase cancer risks for some residents, make rail accidents more likely and add millions of metric tons of climate - changing greenhouse gas globally every year, according...

There was a slight dip in 2012 and 2013 not because of wind power, but because an accident put one of the state's major coal - fired units out of commission for two years:

Whether or not global warming is entirely or largely due to human use of carbon for fuel, the reduction of the dependence on carbon makes sense for reducing asthma in children; reducing black lung disease; reducing the production of coal ashes, residues, and effluents; reducing the impact of carbon greenhouse gasses; reducing pipeline failures; reducing coal and oil surface transport accidents; reducing pipeline - related warfare; and reducing air pollution.

Environmental costs from coal transportation: noise; waste gas; damage to roads; traffic accidents

But even if you double the most ridiculous estimates from Chernobyl, or triple it to account for some future accident — even then, nuclear deaths still compare favourably with all forms of power, and continue to blow the coal and oil safety record out of the water.

I agree that refering to solar and wind as free is not necessarily helpful, as one could say that coal in the ground is free and the costs only involve getting at it, getting it out, preparing it for burning, building and maintaining the power plant, scrubbing the pollutants that are presently required, ideally paying / paying for mining accident victims, ash spill and contaminant victims, mercury, GHGs, property damage, etc, etc, etc..

Accidents at coal mines etc occur more often and have more immediate consequences — but then they are over.

Therefore coal and other power generation accidents = higher risk of occurring and immediate impacts / loss of life

Freese shows that coal emissions kill about 30,000 people a year, causing nearly as many deaths as traffic accidents and more than homicides and AIDS.

Analysis of the emissions shows that air pollution from coal plants is now linked to more deaths than road traffic accidents in Poland, Romania, Bulgaria and the Czech Republic.

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.

Coal mining is a dangerous occupation, with dozens of workplace accident deaths in the U.S. each year, on average.

The group contends that using wind turbines to make electricity instead of drilling rigs to produce hydrocarbons would not only cut the chance of accidents like the Deepwater Horizon spill in the gulf but would also reduce the use of coal on land, the group said.

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Potentially environmentally damaging accidents are an essential part and parcel of all oil and gas drilling (coal mining too).

In a recent decision, Stewart v. Elk Valley Coal Corp, the Supreme Court of Canada («SCC») held that the Alberta Human Rights Tribunal («Tribunal») reasonably concluded that a worker who tested positive for drugs following a workplace accident was terminated because he breached the employer's drug policy and not for discriminatory reasons.

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We have built a nationally recognized reputation for success in cases involving coal mine accidents, black lung and other lung diseases and gas explosion injuries, in addition to all other personal injury and workers» compensation claims.

If you have lost a loved one due to a coal mine accident, contact Paul Thomson of The Thomson Law Firm today.

If they work on a site like sea - shore, coal - mines, chemical plants, they are considered more likely to meet an accident or injury rather than those who have a fixed 8 - hours job at an office.

If you are working at any of the coal mines, sea - shores, chemical plants, steel plants or oil refineries, power plants or any risky workplace where accidents happen more often than normal occupations, you will be considered little risky to get insured.

Founded in 1887, Provident Life and Accident Insurance Company provided accident insurance for «uninsurable» workers in the sawmills and coal mines around Chattanooga, Tennessee.

The rule of the CIL of giving jobs to a family member will lead to more women's employment and the issue will continue to haunt Coal India until and unless accidents stop.

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