Sentences with phrase «coal trains as»

He says, rather, that he thinks of these coal trains as bringing «uncountable irreplaceable species» to their extinction.

I see you've been quoted before describing coal trains as death trains.

Not exact matches

Just as Nebraska doesn't want the Keystone XL pipeline running through its backyard, coastal states such as Washington and Oregon don't want to see an endless string of coal trains hauling millions of tons of coal to export terminals on the Pacific.

One Rounds was Station Master at the train depot, another ran the coal company, and Jacob served several terms as Town Supervisor starting in 1859.

Exactly as tedious as Steamboy, then, and covering exactly the same ground, Howl's Moving Castle shares with Ôtomo's film, too, a giant steam - powered ball as its central image, encapsulating a vision of Victorian England in a Frankenstein's yin / yang clattering along inexorably like the Industrial Revolution while gorgeous impressionistic watercolour towns are polluted by coal smoke from a fleet of trains burning through the forests at night.

As the WV economy shifts from coal mining, some come to Cabell to receive training for new skills, but others feel hopeless.

These, and the carriages» opening windows, give our guests the full romantic and evocative experience of steam rail travel from the smell of the coal smoke to the panting of the engine as it climbs the Brocken, the train's wheels clattering on the rails beneath.

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).

Here a toy train hauls carts of tiny blue counter gadgets as it moves around the installation, which, according to Kent, serves to remind the viewer of Germany's enormous «railway system, which was built for coal but also took a vast number of humans to their death.»

You can almost see as a vestige of train trestle and this is kind of a strange like a coal car or something and you can see that he's transitioning into his more kind of iconic black and white works.

Trains can run on diesel as well as electricity (or coal if the dark ages do indeed return) and provide greater hauling capacity per unit fuel (or unit CO2 if you prefer).

I don't see how any informed person could drive by 20 miles of coal trains and not see them as trains of death.

To keep up with technology and to extract coal as efficiently as possible, modern mining personnel must be highly skilled and well - trained in the use of complex, state - of - the - art equipment.

Protesters assembled by Portland's Reed College entered the banks as mock coal export trains, which they believed will expose Northwest residents to coal dust, diesel fumes and noise pollution if the coal export facility near Longview becomes operational.

He also referred to trains carrying coal as «death trains» and again called coal - powered plants, «factories of death.»

Engaged in theatrics with his Senate open window stunt and his characterizing coal cars as Holocaust death trains.

Our trainings foster local leadership and steep learning in local traditions to yield powerful activism, such as the Pacific Warrior Training Program, which has mobilized hundreds of Indigenous activists across many Pacific islands to engage their communities on the impacts of climate change and participate in mass actions confronting the coal industry in Australia.

Communities bisected by rail, such as Missoula, MT or Marysville, WA face tremendous delays that disrupt daily life as a result of the quantity of trains needed to transport millions of tons of coal.

The addition of coal trains at projected numbers would require massive investment in rail infrastructure such as sidings, double - tracking, and other improvements in order for our train system to function effectively.

However, the climate benefits of shifting from fossil - fueled transportation to electric cars, trucks, buses and trains only pencil out if our electricity itself is clean — that it's produced through carbon - free resources such as solar, wind, and hydroelectric, rather than fossil fuels such as coal, oil or fracked gas.

but not enough to catch fire, as I guess a coal train did when someone parked it on the bridge in the Johnstown flood to try to save the bridge.

But as a former director at the environmental group Greenpeace, I can tell you that activists don't occupy a logging company's offices, or lie down in front of a coal train, or march in the streets of New York for money.

Workforce initiatives like the trucker training program in eastern Ohio are gaining traction as workers seek a life beyond coal.

As many as 18 new freight trains per day would run back and forth from the Powder River Basin of Wyoming and Montana to carry coal to the new porAs many as 18 new freight trains per day would run back and forth from the Powder River Basin of Wyoming and Montana to carry coal to the new poras 18 new freight trains per day would run back and forth from the Powder River Basin of Wyoming and Montana to carry coal to the new port.

As two Republicans wrote in a Sept 20th op - ed, «President Obama and his extreme EPA have issued new rules and regulations that are crippling the coal industry» and «this «Train Wreck» of new EPA regulations is already... costing jobs in places where unemployment is staggering.»

As the coal industry continues to decline, former fossil fuel workers in Casper, Wyoming are training for new careers with a future as wind technicianAs the coal industry continues to decline, former fossil fuel workers in Casper, Wyoming are training for new careers with a future as wind technicianas wind technicians.