Sentences with phrase «coal mined»

Almost all the coal shipped off Canada's West Coast since we began exporting coal to Asia in volume around 35 years ago has been metallurgical (or coking) coal mined in Canada.

The facts: According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are currently 50,800 coal mining jobs in the United States — only 800 of which have been added since January, when Trump took office.

Mines minister Norman Moore has attacked South West Greens MLC Lyn MacLaren accusing her of whipping up hysteria over the issue of a proposed coal mine in Margaret River.

Coal mining jobs are declining partly because low natural gas prices have cut coal's market share from 50 percent in 2000 to 30 percent in 2016.

South Korean cities in the province have fared better than their neighbors north of the DMZ, but they have struggled to diversify their economy beyond old coal mines, farming and fisheries.

Businesses large and small have been making the case that they can't afford paying more for labour going back to when laws were first proposed to curb the use of seven year - olds in coal mines or put an end to 16 - hour workdays.

West Virginia coal mining jobs are not coming back.

While it's investing a huge sum of money in the reef, the Australian government is also proposing a new coal mine not far from the Great Barrier Reef.

Margaret River grape growers might hate the idea of a coal mine in their backyard, but unless the outlook for Australian wine improves they might have to change their minds.

Once in power, Trump and Pruitt have moved to delay or roll back federal regulations limiting greenhouse gas emissions while pledging to revive the long - struggling U.S. coal mines.

Jeannie Kielty, who works on community relations for Banks, says open cast is part of the social fabric of the northeast, an area with a long history of coal mining.

There are no coal mining jobs coming back,» Cuban said.

Osborne Park - based BGC Contracting has won a $ 700 million contract for work on Idemitsu Australia Resources» Boggabri coal mine in NSW.

Many of its citizens, after long careers in coal mining industry, struggle with chronic pain (some of which have since become hooked on opioids).

The Prosper - Haniel coal mining facility in Germany's western state of North - Rhine Westphalia is slated to close in 2018.

Many of these nonbank institutions have financed risky infrastructure operations, like copper and coal mines or other poorly constructed buildings, by using a variety of unusual financial instruments, said Louis Lau, director of Brandes Investment Partners» investments group.

Given the globally accepted link between carbon emissions, climate change and reef bleaching, the decision to approve the Carmichael coal mine in Queensland right next to the Great Barrier Reef really is adding insult to injury.

The WMP had a face value of about $ 500 million, and was supposed to fund the purchase of coal mines in Shanxi province.

This crackdown is partly due to a string of recent, highly - publicized disasters including the West Virginia coal mine explosion, an oil rig south of Louisiana that blew up, and a fire at a Washington State oil refinery.

Onavo, which funnels data from perhaps 30 million users globally, provides the canary in the coal mine.

«To simultaneously promote Adani's coal mine, which would be one of the world's largest, pretending to care about the world's largest Reef is an acrobatic feat only cynical politicians would attempt,» he said.

Only a handful were natural seeps from underground formations, and one was a vent from a coal mine, according to researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the California Institute of Technology.

McKibben noted that the government is also backing a new coal mine in Central Queensland.

One «canary in the coal mine» could be a move further away from high - yield bonds and into investment - grade fixed income.

The temporary foreign worker program was first under fire in the fall of 2012, when it came to light that approval was granted to Chinese - owned HD Mining International to bring more than 200 people from China to work at its coal mine near Tumbler Ridge, B.C.

«We were the canaries in the coal mine,» Tilson said about investors including Einhorn, who bet that Lehman Brothers would crash months before the investment bank filed for bankruptcy in 2008.

After a series of incidents where coal mines poisoned local water supplies, the rule was written to force mining companies not to begin new projects without first developing a plan to restore affected streams after the coal is hauled out of the earth.

The consensus seems to be that the industry — and the culture it's engendered — are too entrenched to completely disappear, nor will coal mining jobs, but certainly not enough to sustain the community.

Last December, EnerBlu, a California - based advanced battery maker, announced plans to erect a $ 412 - million gigafactory in Pikeville — on the site of a shuttered coal mine — slated to launch in 2020 and employ up to 875 workers.

People in B.C. also lashed out against that provincial government's support for Chinese - owned HD Mining's plan to use temporary foreign workers at a proposed coal mine in Tumbler Ridge.

Coal mining and coding have a lot in common, says Bit Source cofounder Charles «Rusty» Justice: «You can't have bad habits or take shortcuts.»

A federally backed national rural innovation fund would send a strong message that there is more to rural America than just shuttered factories and abandoned coal mines.

Another hurdle for reviving coal mining in Appalachia: less coal.

According to the Labor Department, there were 56,700 jobs in coal mining in March, down from 68,000 just a year earlier.

Domestic coal mines are being shuttered due to tumbling coal prices.

Canadian mining giant Teck Resources, for instance, recently shelved plans to revive its Quintette coal mine, while Walter Energy decided to close its Wolverine mine near Tumbler Ridge, B.C.

After a busy three years in which close to 20 Australian coal mines have changed hands, the run of deals looks to be slowing.

The Yancoal transaction followed the $ US606 million sale of Rio's 40 per cent stake in the Bengalla coal mine to New Hope, and the $ US220 million sale of the Mt Pleasant coal project in NSW in 2016.

With EMR Capital taking the reins at Kestrel - another former Rio Tinto coal mine - surely BHP will try again to offload its adjacent Gregory Crinum mines.

Rio received $ US2.69 billion from Yancoal last year for its Hunter Valley coal mine, rail and port assets.

The Company owns and operates three surface coal mines in the PRB, the lowest cost major coal producing region in the nation.

Earlier this month, Japanese trading houses Itochu and Sumitomo announced that they're selling their combined 45 percent interest in a pair of big Australian coal mines, Newlands and Collinsville.

Annette began her career as a development officer with the Cape Breton Development Corporation, a coal mining operation, in Sydney, Nova Scotia.

On this week's episode of Money Talking on WNYC, Time «s Rana Foroohar and the New York Times «Joe Nocera examine why these firms are faltering and whether they may be canaries in the coal mine for a potential drop in the stock...

In a region where more than a 1,000 workers were recently laid - off from the coal mines, projects like this offer a much - needed economic boost that helps diversify the local economy and buffer, as the mayor of Tumbler Ridge said, the «devastating shocks» from the regular boom - bust cycle of the traditional resource sectors.

The IEA is also skeptical of the marginal impact on coal mine profitability from Trump's proposals.

Two - thirds of coal mining is in Queensland.

That will help to stave off further power plant changeovers, and will enable more coal mines to operate profitably.

Nationally, China will have closed more than 2,000 small coal mines from 2013 to the end of 2015.

India is building railroad lines that crisscross the country to connect underused coal mines with growing urban populations, threatening to dump more resources into an already glutted market.