Sentences with phrase «coalfield areas»

They also spoke of 19 peer - reviewed scientific studies that indicate that coal mining and mountaintop removal mining specifically are contributing to tremendously high rates of cancer and birth defects in Appalachian coalfield areas.
His current project explores life within coalfield areas of the British Midlands.
Far from viewing people from these coalfield areas, such as in Barnsley where I represent, as ordinary, decent, hard - working people employed in a valuable and vital part of our economy, they presented the striking miners as dangerous «revolutionaries» to be defeated.
«There is a bit of a difference between areas such as London and the cities... and places like Mansfield which is a coalfield area in the Midlands, where actually we lost.»
They make it clear that Labour still tends to win big in the Swadlincote area, but the Tories win very slightly bigger still in Repton, Melbourne & the villages outside the traditional coalfield area.

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Coalfield Development, a nonprofit social enterprise in West Virginia, is working to turn former coal mining areas and mountaintop removal sites into farmland and forest, using farm animals to root out invasive plants and fertilize the depleted soil.
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