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Author Joan Quigley, a former business reporter for the Miami Herald, and a descendant of coal miners, uses her own family history to illustrate the stubborn determination of those who have toiled in the anthracite coal region of Appalachia.

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But the real level of unemployment or underemployment is masked by the fact that the official data does not include China «s 277 million migrant workers, such as Zhang Sihu and his wife from Bianqiang in Yulin, a region rich in coal, oil and natural gas in northwestern Shaanxi province.

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.

The areas of Donetsk and Lugansk, in the middle of the coal - producing Donbas region, declared independence last month and cut ties with the central government in Kiev.

When a couple of former coal workers launched Bit Source, a software and web developer, in Pikeville in 2015, there was buzz about the region becoming «Silicon Holler.»

Production in the Western Region, which represented about 55.7 % of total U.S. coal production in fourth — quarter 2017, totaled about 108 million short tons (5.9 % lower than fourth — quarter 2016).

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.

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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The two most important figures in the founding of the European Coal and Steel Community (the predecessor of the EU), French foreign minister Robert Schuman and German chancellor Konrad Adenauer, both had roots in the region.

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.

Two new breweries are set to open later this year in Cambridge on the edge of Tasmania's Coal River Valley wine region, just a couple of minutes» drive from Hobart Airport.

Drilling for natural gas has been promoted because it burns more cleanly than coal and can reduce dependence on imported energy sources, and it can also bring jobs to economically battered regions of the state.

The report further stated that slowing economic growth and energy consumption in China as well as the restriction of coal use in its coastal regions will impact seaborne trade, especially Indonesian exports.

Unfortunately, around half of the new coal - fired generation capacity under development in the region still uses inefficient subcritical technologies.

«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.

The Southeast is one of the nation's most coal - dependent regions.

For decades the main industry was coal, drawn from seams that underlie much of the region.

That sulfur dioxide market, run by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), has reduced sulfur dioxide levels by 40 percent since 1992 by allowing companies to buy and sell the right to emit the acid - rain forming pollution from coal - burning plants, which has increased the acidity of lake waters throughout the region.

Within the Asia - Pacific region, China continued to outpace its neighbors with 3.3 billion metric tons of coal produced in 2011, accounting for a 68 percent share of all production in the region.

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.

But campaigners have expressed concern that the burden of pollution is likely to be shifted to other regions, with high - emission sectors like thermal power still on course to expand rapidly in big, coal - rich regions like Inner Mongolia, Ningxia or Xinjiang.

Many of the worst coal fires are in remote areas or in poor regions where ruined communities and impaired public health have not commanded much attention.

But additional buildup of coal - to - natural - gas projects could also create an environmental nightmare because producing the gas will emit huge amounts of carbon dioxide and worsen the water crisis in China's arid western regions.

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.

«It depends on the fertility of the soil in the region where you are producing the biochar, and whether you are offsetting coal or some other form of energy,» Amonette says.

A study by the World Resources Institute last October showed 51 percent of planned coal - power plants in China were in regions with severe water shortages, potentially pitting energy production against agriculture and basic needs for clean water.

As Tennessee coal mining region resident Ann League says: «The impacts of coal mining abuse do not stop at a mountain's edge.»

Countries and regions report their CO2 emissions from fossil fuels by counting what they have used, such as the amount of oil, coal or gas they have burned.

Linfen, China — a city in the heart of China's coal region in Shanxi Province, its three million inhabitants choke on dust and drink arsenic that leaches from the fossil fuel.

Researchers then used models to estimate changes in ambient pollutant concentrations due to the presence of coal - fired plants in the region and estimated health impacts using peer - reviewed methodologies used in similar studies around the world.

In the Four Corners region, which is the area where New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado and Utah meet, the methane emissions are caused mainly by the production and transport of natural gas from coal beds, said the NASA team.

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.

[166] The study considered the mix of power sources for 13 U.S. regions that would be used during recharging of vehicles, generally a combination of coal, natural gas and nuclear energy, and to a lesser extend renewable energy.

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.

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The former of these works was commissioned by the Kunsthalle Recklinghausen — a gallery set in one of Germany's coalmining regions — and appears as a huge mound of black coal, interspersed with red diodes, which is encircled by another part of the commission — Time Train to the Holocaust (2008).

The title is inspired by the artist's experience of the coal and salt mines of Ukraine's industrial Donbas region.

Ordos is situated in the center of a region, which has some of the largest deposits of coal in China, and has been transformed in record time from one of the poorest areas of China to one of the wealthiest.

«Coal means wealth» — The valuable raw material coal is the source not just of the economic and social, but also the cultural prosperity of a whole regCoal means wealth» — The valuable raw material coal is the source not just of the economic and social, but also the cultural prosperity of a whole regcoal is the source not just of the economic and social, but also the cultural prosperity of a whole 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.

The IEA expects that coal demand will increase in every region of the world except in the United States, where coal is being pushed out by natural gas.

I hope everyone clicked on the link showing the lack of correlation in the price of coal from region to region.