Sentences with phrase «coal mining operations in»

Yesterday afternoon the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it had found «a path forward on two coal mining operations in West Virginia.»

In one example from the report, government - backed Yancoa last year bought Rio Tinto's thermal coal mine operations in Australia's Hunter Valley.

Or take for instance, the federal court ruling last week that halted a proposed coal mining operation in Colorado stating that the «social costs» of contributions the mine would make to worsening impacts of climate change in the future were not taken into consideration.

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The giant mining operations of Asia stack thousands of computers in dimly lit factory buildings powered by cheap electricity from coal - fed generating plants.

The U.K. - based bank, whose operations are increasingly concentrated in Asia, said it will make up to $ 100 billion available for financing low - carbon projects, while stopping the financing of mines that produce coal for power generation.

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

By: Victor Moolman 21st October 2016 Mining equipment supplier Tenova Takraf Africa is offering junior miners in the surface mining industry a tailor - made package that will help new mining operations produce State - owned power utility Eskom - gradeMining equipment supplier Tenova Takraf Africa is offering junior miners in the surface mining industry a tailor - made package that will help new mining operations produce State - owned power utility Eskom - grademining industry a tailor - made package that will help new mining operations produce State - owned power utility Eskom - grademining operations produce State - owned power utility Eskom - grade coal.

We had a former coal mine operator, a motorcycle dealership owner, a commercial airline pilot, a security special operations manager, a real estate broker, a person from the private equity sector, a hedge fund manager, a car dealership manager, and a person that worked in digital marketing.

BHP Billiton said on Thursday jobs could go at its Australian coal mines as the company faces a deteriorating market, the latest sign of global miners scaling back operations due to slowing industrial activity in China.

In addition to the Company's mining operations, the Company markets and broker coals from its operations and other coal producers, both as principal and agent, and trade coal and freight - related contracts through trading and business offices.

The Company has a majority interest in 27 of those coal operations and a 50 % equity interests in the Middlemount Mine in Australia.

This year Rio Tinto has announced agreed sales totalling US$ 2.5 billion, including US$ 850 million for the undeveloped potash assets in Argentina and Canada, US$ 750 million for the Corumbá iron ore operation in Brazil, US$ 761 million for the Jacobs Ranch coal mine in the United States and US$ 125 million for the Ningxia aluminium smelter in China.

«The reason is because some local government officials are investing in those small coal mining companies,» he said, adding that the collusion of the local government and small coal miners thwarts Beijing's efforts to shut down the low - tech coal companies whose operations often harm the environment.

But EPA also recently approved 42 permits for Appalachian mining operations, including some mountaintop mines, and sided with the coal industry in opposing the rehearing of an appeals court case that could have decided whether the Army Corps has been improperly handling mountaintop permits.

It has participated in lawsuits surrounding the operation's environmental impact — leaks from the mine's coal ash ponds have been an environmental concern in the area for years (Greenwire, Oct. 23, 2013).

The map above shows locations of coal mines and plants as of 1997, with nearly 1,400 active operations, while the map below illustrates the top five coal producing states in the United States.

In Pennsylvania's anthracite coal country, underground mine mapping became law by the late - 19th century, although the practice was not observed by all mining operations.

The latest evidence comes in an Earth Day news release from Peabody Energy, the largest private coal company, which is thriving both domestically and through rapidly growing coal exports from its worldwide mining operations to China, India and other developing countries.

The multiple rivers that carry torrential tropical / sub-tropic rains to the coast will be immediately affected in the river mouths and that will get worse and WILL fundamentally CHANGE THE LANDSCAPE OF 2,300 kilometres OF Coastline, m river systems and farming land and cities and towns and villages and MINING OPERATIONS like open cut coal mines etc inland before one gets to the great dividing range which BTW supports a population of approximately 1 million people and contributes possibly 25 % or more of QLD GDP and it's massive Exports to the world including FOOD SUPPLY.

In best practice a detailed rehabilitation or reclamation plan is designed and approved for each coal mine, covering the period from the start of operations until well after mining has finished.

(Although mining operations began in October 2009, the fight to save Coal River Mountain from complete destruction continues.)

On September 30, 2010, a coalition of Native American and conservation groups filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of the Interior's Office of Surface Mining (OSM) for withholding records relating to Peabody Energy's coal - mining operations on tribal lands in northeast ArMining (OSM) for withholding records relating to Peabody Energy's coal - mining operations on tribal lands in northeast Armining operations on tribal lands in northeast Arizona.

Peabody's strategy has been to seek an involvement in coal projects in Mongolia with the aim of exporting to the Chinese market, expand its Australian operations, enter the Indonesian market and look to expand exports from its Powder River Basin mines in the U.S. to supply the Pacific market.

Air pollution is a considerable problem in Serbia, much of it due to emissions of CO2, ash, sulphur and nitrogen oxides from coal - fired power plants and mining operations.

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.

Researchers, some of whom are using our data, are beginning to draw troubling connections between coal mining and the health of people living in communities near those operations.

State royalties and subsidies According to Table 4 in the mining operations spreadsheet published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, in 2014 - 15 Australia - wide coal royalties were $ 2.8 billion and petroleum (oil plus gas) royalties were $ 1.9 billion.

We have experience in coal mining, recultivation and power plant operation.

While boondoggles involving wood chips from natural forests have emerged due to foolish regulation, a more gradual approach to conversion could well support a growth industry in «renewable» coal replacements, while allowing existing mining operations to use up their resources with little interference.

In September 2010 the Rainforest Action Network dumped 1,000 pounds of Appalachia dirt on the sidewalk of EPA headquarters in Washington DC in protest of Arch Coal's mountaintop removal operation, the Spruce 1 MinIn September 2010 the Rainforest Action Network dumped 1,000 pounds of Appalachia dirt on the sidewalk of EPA headquarters in Washington DC in protest of Arch Coal's mountaintop removal operation, the Spruce 1 Minin Washington DC in protest of Arch Coal's mountaintop removal operation, the Spruce 1 Minin protest of Arch Coal's mountaintop removal operation, the Spruce 1 Mine.

Arch Coal's West Virginia mining operations in the Appalachian Mountains were the subject of a critical documentary in 2002 on Now with Bill Moyers on PBS.

On March 1, 2011, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Justice Department announced that Arch Coal had agreed to pay a $ 4 million dollar penalty for alleged violations of the Clean Water Act in Virginia, West Virginia, and Kentucky, and will implement changes to its mining operations to ensure compliance.

The alleged excess discharges of iron, total suspended solids, manganese and other pollutants reflect deficiencies in operation and maintenance of wastewater treatment systems in place at four of the company's mining facilities: Coal Mac, Inc; Lone Mountain Processing, Inc; Cumberland River Coal Co.; and Mingo Logan Coal Co..

Arch Coal did not adopt the recommended changes for the Spruce Mine, and in early Jan. 2011, EPA officials revoked the operation's Clean Water Act permit, citing «destructive and unsustainable mining practices» proposed by the company.

Our company was founded in 1988 by Mr. Robert E. Murray, our Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer, who mortgaged everything he owned to the purchase a single continuous mining operation, The Ohio Valley Coal Company's Powhatan No. 6 Mine, which at the time had an annual output of approximately 1.2 million tons per year and was being closed.

The bloggers over at Powerline, led in this case by the Koch - cozy John Hinderaker, are all in a tizzy this week after the New York Times reported that Tom Steyer, a major political force in the fight for climate justice, used to invest heavily in coal mining operations.

Yet here was the practically unheard - of spectacle of Patriot's CEO, Ben Hatfield, acknowledging that mountaintop removal affected both people and ecology: «Patriot Coal recognizes that our mining operations impact the communities in which we operate in significant ways, and we are committed to maximizing the benefits of this agreement for our stakeholders, including our employees and neighbors,» Hatfield said in court.

In December 2008, the Bush Administration approved a final rule that made it easier for coal companies to dump rock and other mine waste from mountaintop removal mining operations into nearby streams and valleys.

Since a mountaintop - removal operation moved in in 2000, Maria Gunnoe has tried to protect her home and community from the effects of mountaintop removal coal mining.

In Oregon, for example, Governor Kate Brown signed a bill that will move the state to 50 percent renewable energy production by 2040 and end the state's use of coal power by 2030; in Montana, sagging demand and economic pressures caused Arch Coal to scrap its plans for a massive strip - mining operation on federal land; and in a recent Gallup poll, 64 percent of Americans said they worried a «great deal» or «fair amount» about global warming, up from 55 percent only a year agIn Oregon, for example, Governor Kate Brown signed a bill that will move the state to 50 percent renewable energy production by 2040 and end the state's use of coal power by 2030; in Montana, sagging demand and economic pressures caused Arch Coal to scrap its plans for a massive strip - mining operation on federal land; and in a recent Gallup poll, 64 percent of Americans said they worried a «great deal» or «fair amount» about global warming, up from 55 percent only a year coal power by 2030; in Montana, sagging demand and economic pressures caused Arch Coal to scrap its plans for a massive strip - mining operation on federal land; and in a recent Gallup poll, 64 percent of Americans said they worried a «great deal» or «fair amount» about global warming, up from 55 percent only a year agin Montana, sagging demand and economic pressures caused Arch Coal to scrap its plans for a massive strip - mining operation on federal land; and in a recent Gallup poll, 64 percent of Americans said they worried a «great deal» or «fair amount» about global warming, up from 55 percent only a year Coal to scrap its plans for a massive strip - mining operation on federal land; and in a recent Gallup poll, 64 percent of Americans said they worried a «great deal» or «fair amount» about global warming, up from 55 percent only a year agin a recent Gallup poll, 64 percent of Americans said they worried a «great deal» or «fair amount» about global warming, up from 55 percent only a year ago.

«Over the past two years, Norges Bank, following upon its investment mandates from the Norwegian Parliament (Stortinget) and the Minister of Finance, divested the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG)'s of its holdings in at least 49 companies with substantial operations related to mining and burning of coal.

In the heart of Appalachia, where the coal industry wields enormous power over government and public opinion, lifelong resident Maria Gunnoe fights against environmentally - devastating mountaintop removal mining and valley fill operations.

The action was part of the global #BreakFree2016 protests against fossil fuels, which saw a similar action last week in the UK when Reclaim the Power halted operations at the UK's largest open coal mine in Wales.

WHEREAS, the state of -LCB- state -RCB- supports reasonable, practicable and sensible efforts to improve stream protection; and WHEREAS, under existing rules, 90 percent of all coal mines have no offsite impacts — and in many states 100 percent of the operations are free of any offsite impacts — according to the Department of...

It does so by going beyond the now classic Carbon Tracker analysis (the foundation of McKibben's 2012 article), updating it by focusing not on the entire body of fossil - fuel reserves, but on the smaller set (roughly 30 % of the «proven» reserves) of reserves that have already been «developed» — the «oil fields, gas fields, and coal mines that are already in operation or under construction.»

But the Rystad data shows coal mines and oil and gas wells currently in operation worldwide contain 942 gigatons worth of CO2.

Gunnoe won the Goldman Prize in 2009 for her fight against environmentally - devastating mountaintop removal coal mining and valley fill operations.

In the heart of Appalachia, where the coal industry wields enormous power over government and public opinion, lifelong resident and 2009 Goldman Prize winner Maria Gunnoe fights against environmentally - devastating mountaintop removal mining and valley fill operations.

However in light of recent events indicating that public officials failed to adequately oversee Massey Energy's coal mining operations, I would hope this decision might become less controversial.

Through our regional presence and strength in Asian markets, we have played an integral part in the increase in demand for power in the region, advising our clients on investments in exploration and mining operations (predominantly iron ore and coal mines).