Sentences with phrase «coal mining regions»

Coal mining regions and steel factories provided hostile and rough conditions in which men, women and children worked tirelessly to provide bread for their families.
Other researchers are performing analyses in all U.S. coal mining regions, using more of the updated data that are coming in from the field.
Of course what holds for coal mining profitability in the Hunter Valley holds for the other of Australia's coal mining regions.
CBD COP11: New report examines how to protect community forest rights in coal mining regions in India
«The Commission is working on an initiative to support coal mining regions during the transition towards a low - emission economy.»
It's certainly not high enough, but the barrier to raising it is less the impact on the outer suburbs than the impact on coal mining regions.
As Tennessee coal mining region resident Ann League says: «The impacts of coal mining abuse do not stop at a mountain's edge.»
My body of work «And From the Coaltips a Tree Will Rise» [2016/2017] created and produced in the Borinage, the coal mining region in Belgium, parallels the Trump / Pence slogans «Trump Digs Coal» or «The War on Coal,» and counters this entire narrative and empty promises that Trump made to coal miners in America.
Disruptions in the global coal supply chain from natural disasters, such as typhoons and flooding in Australia's key coal mining region, have resulted in higher demand for U.S. coal worldwide.
But call it what you will, it's a coal fired power plant in the middle of the Hunter Valley coal mining region.

Not exact matches

HWE Mining has a presence in iron ore in the Pilbara region of WA and is active in gold, coal, bauxite, nickel and copper both in Australia and overseas.
Appalachian Voices, an environmental group, estimates that coal companies have buried over 2,000 miles of streams in the region through mountaintop removal mining since the 1990s.
The Company owns and operates three surface coal mines in the PRB, the lowest cost major coal producing region in the nation.
Instead, it intends to sustain its current production of 27 million tons for the next five years by transitioning away from its Coal Mountain and Cardinal River mines and replacing that production by bringing on additional output from the Elk Valley region.
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.
Coal cars will need to continue to travel longer distances to eastern ports as the mining of coal deposits in the Appalachian region declines and the activity in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming and Montana increaCoal cars will need to continue to travel longer distances to eastern ports as the mining of coal deposits in the Appalachian region declines and the activity in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming and Montana increacoal deposits in the Appalachian region declines and the activity in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming and Montana increases.
Coal cars will need to travel longer distances to eastern ports as the mining of coal deposits in the Appalachian region declines and the activity in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming and Montana increaCoal cars will need to travel longer distances to eastern ports as the mining of coal deposits in the Appalachian region declines and the activity in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming and Montana increacoal deposits in the Appalachian region declines and the activity in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming and Montana increases.
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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.
Projects to harvest natural gas from a coal mine in the Four Corners region is spewing the potent greenhouse gas
«It's really a tale of two markets,» he said, noting that as U.S. thermal coal prices soften, demand for high - grade metallurgical coal and some thermal coal has helped prop up U.S. coal mining activity in traditional high - volume regions like Appalachia and the Powder River Basin.
Our findings show that the gaseous form of mercury — emitted by coal - burning, mining and other industrial processes in the industrialized world — is being lofted into the region from thousands of miles away.
Like thousands of others throughout the region who have seen their communities ravaged by the effects of mining, Gibson laughs at the notion of coal being clean or green.
She asked him the way to the village chief's house, and then about the coal mine proposed for the region.
Climate alarmists have long anticipated Earth's polar regions to symbolize the proverbial canary in the coal mine when it comes to witnessing the impacts of CO2 - induced climate change.
The required additional fossil fuels will involve exploitation of tar sands, tar shale, hydrofracking for oil and gas, coal mining, drilling in the Arctic, Amazon, deep ocean, and other remote regions, and possibly exploitation of methane hydrates.
The Yorkie's home region was a center of mining as well as textile making, and many Yorkies were employed in coal mines as exterminators.
Venture from there to explore the gem fields around Anakie, the fertile agricultural region of Emerald and on to the coal mining towns of Dysart, Moranbah and Middlemount.
Take a close up view of the local coal mines, perhaps relax in the stunning wineries in the region or visit some of the historical sites of the area.
Sam started a new region, built a thriving coal - mining town.
Bottrop's work is conceived as a meditation on his hometown, a once prominent coal mining and rail center in the Ruhr region.
The title is inspired by the artist's experience of the coal and salt mines of Ukraine's industrial Donbas region.
The project coincides with the end of the 30 - year anniversary of the UK miners» strike and an ongoing collaboration with the National Coal Mining Museum to give a poetic and historical response to an industry which still figures large in the cultural memory of the region.
Growing up in a Southern Appalachian coal mining community, the subjects involving environmentalism and land use have a lot of personal significance to Hatfield who often recalls the region's ironic juxtaposition of protected wilderness and mined land as a major influence on her work.
Finally, the nonprofit group Appalachian Voices has created ilovemountains.org/myconnection, which allows visitors to type in a ZIP code and find out if their utility sells electricity produced with coal mined from mountaintops in that region.
This victory came as many residents from across the Appalachian region were in Washington, D.C., this week to demand that Congress and the Environmental Protection Agency stop mountaintop removal coal mining.
Here's an excerpt making his prime point, followed by more from Schendler on a climate - friendly energy deal he just helped broker between his employer, which runs four of the region's marquee * ski resorts, and a coal mine owner whose company is a member of a group promoting the myth that global warming is a «great delusion.»
In a news release issued today, the coal company, Peabody Energy, gushingly describes the company's partnership with the government of the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region and Communist Party on a plan to develop a surface coal mine that will produced 50 million tons of coal a year «over multiple decades.»
Our region — now known to the world as the «Galilee Basin» — is being opened up to coal mining for the very first time.
Since 1901, when coal was discovered in the region, the amount of open space has dwindled, making way for industrial and community infrastructure to support the population employed by the mines.
Bituminous coal is the most abundant coal in active U.S. mining regions.
My general aim in this work is to examine more sustainable economic models than coal mining for both indigenous and non-indigenous people in the North Queensland region.
It was reported in July 2011 that Peabody would pursue a large coal mine project in China's western Xinjiang region in partnership with the local provincial government.
The welder whose contract firm works at a number of the region's coal mines wasn't the only man from the coal industry drinking at Lakeside Bar and Grill in Gillette that afternoon.
Despite the link between the Powder River Basin and global warming, the U.S. Interior Department, which oversees the coal in the region, is pushing for ramped up strip mining.
Mine fires extend beyond Pennsylvania's borders; they are common in the United States» coal regions and other coalmining industrial nations including India, China, Russia, and Australia.
This makes coal mining in the region responsible for more greenhouse gases than any other activity in the U.S., making it a root contributor to global warming.
Plans called for a surface mine that would produce 50 million metric tons of coal annually to feed China's energy needs, Peabody wrote in a joint statement with its partner, the government of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
Nearly 500 million tons of coal are strip mined annually, providing 43 % of the nation's coal, more than any other region.
Roughly 1.2 million acres, including 500 mountains, have been flattened by mountaintop removal coal mining in the central Appalachian region.
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