Sentences with phrase «coal strip»

Despite forty years of coal strip mining adjacent to the reservation, and the Colstrp l - 4 Powerplant complex, there is a 50 % unemployment rate on the reservation.
«The statistics I have from a single summer of forest fires in Rosebud County [in Montana]... [they] emitted more particulate in the air in that single season than 3000 years of coal strip,» Zinke said.
Lighthouse Resources, the owner of a massive coal strip mine in Montana, wants to open North America's largest coal export facility in Washington State.
Since blasting off ridge tops to reach seams of buried coal strips the mountains of soil and vegetation, it seems logical that MTR mining would contribute to more intense flash floods.
Residents of Atterwasch and other villages gathered in the rain last year to protest plans for expanded brown coal strip - mining that would erase their Lausitz towns from the map.
In a generation, the entire landscape would look like West Virginia 100 years ago when coal stripping mining was allow.
King Coal has its sights set on exporting coal strip - mined from the beautiful Powder River Basin in Montana and Wyoming.
They argued that much of the EPA program's apparent success in reducing SO2 emissions from power plants was due to simultaneous railroad deregulation which reduced the cost of delivering low sulfur coal strip - mined in the west.
These members of the Lummi Nation will travel 1,200 miles from the coal strip - mine sites in the Powder River Basin to the proposed coal terminal site at Cherry Point in Washington.
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