Sentences with word «coalmining»

Individual species in trouble were said to be early warning signals, like canaries in coalmines, or small but essential, like rivets in airplanes — the works and windings of natural systems, which no sane tinkerer would cast aside.

Bush «evidently signalled his willingness to meet with industry leaders as early as February when the hosts of the coal forum — all owners and executives of coalmining companies — emailed out the first save - the - date notices,» The Guardian reported.

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).

It is created in that way in order that materials could be conveyed under coalmine walls.

It is created in that way in order that materials could be conveyed under coalmine walls.

For the piece, Karikis asked the Snowdown Colliery Male Voice Choir to vocalise the industrial sounds of a former coalmine based on their memories.

Karikis asked the Snowdown Colliery Male Voice Choir to vocalise the industrial sounds of a former coalmine based on their memories and the result is a moving ode to an extinct landscape

These works of art utilize pigments generated by remediating toxic streams polluted by coalmine runoff.

English scientist John Scott Haldane was the first to introduce canaries into coalmines in the 1890s.

Those who must navigate an uncertain market understandably seek out their own coalmine canaries.

The recipe was later distributed to the nation's schoolchildren as part of a government cookbook, making the then - schools secretary the canary sent down the culinary coalmine.

Baroness Blackstone: «Probably the best part of the trip was the visit to the Landau open - cast coalmine.

Previously there was a prevalence AIDS amongst 30 % of the workforce within coalmines, however, through a strict testing, monitoring and anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment system, this has been cut to 15 %.

Named after labour and national service minister Ernest Bevin, the Bevin Boys were tasked to work in Britain's coalmines between 1943 and 1948.

The agency says a 2006 law mandated that coalmines install wireless communications and electronic tracking systems underground, which positioning systems could use to broadcast the whereabouts of stranded miners.

Watershed groups near Pittsburgh, for instance, know to look out for discharge from old coalmines, which wouldn't be a factor in other parts of the state.

In Jharia, famous for its rich coal resources, 700,000 people are exposed to toxic smoke that seeps from the ground as fires from opencast coalmines burn around the clock.

October Sky Homer Hickam (Jake Gyllenhaal) grows up in a small town in West Virginia, where it is assumed everyone's future will be working in the local coalmine.

Adani is an Indian mining corporation proposing to dig a giant coalmine in the Galilee basin, Queensland.

Singleton has a lot to offer with its location being only a short 20 minutes from the vineyards and attractions such as the Military Museum, coalmine tours and National Parks.

Featuring members of the Snowdown Colliery Male Voice Choir, the work memorialises a Kentish coalmine through the former miners» vocal embodiment of memory.

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.

Scaling back coalmining is one way Australia could make big progress towards its emissions targets.

A highly orchestrated, secretly foreign - funded group of Australian environmental activists opposing the $ 16 billion Adani coalmine in Queensland has «dampened» Indian investment interest in Australia and received heated criticism from the federal Coalition and Queensland Labor governments.

Peabody Energy, America's biggest coalmining company, has funded at least two dozen groups that cast doubt on manmade climate change and oppose environment regulations, analysis by the Guardian reveals.

EXPLOSIVE economic modelling warns that the carbon tax could force eight black coalmines to close, costing nearly 3000 jobs in regional NSW and more than 1100 jobs in Queensland in its first three years.

«It's a very clear indication from the Australian people that they want a much better environmental outcome in this age of climate change, pulp mills, forest destruction and more coalmines.»

This coverage does not apply to special deductibles such as hurricane, earthquake, coalmine subsidence, special wind / hail or optional special theft deductibles.

Wangan and Jagalingou people stand in opposition to the planned Carmichael coalmine in Queensland, while the Sioux people are holding firm in their struggle against the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock.

It hasn't stopped the Australian government granting approval for what could be Australia's largest ever coalmine in Queensland's Galilee basin.

Others named in the 2015 invitation included Tennessee Valley Authority president Bill Johns, Christopher C. Horner of the Competitive Enterprise Institute and Energy & Environment Legal Institute, and «the owners and chief executives of coalmining and energy companies» including Alliance Resource Partners, Alpha Natural Resources, Consol Energy, Arch Coal, and United Coal Company.

The canary is a reference to the canaries used to provide warnings in coalmines, which would become sick before miners from carbon monoxide poisoning, warning of the danger.

The Fitbit anxiety is just the «canary in the coalmine,» an early symptom of the bigger problem.

I'm not sure even Facebook quite understands that — they are the canary in that coalmine.»

Seeger has used his personal finances, earned through his participation in the coalmining sector, to pioneer large - scale renewable energy projects for South Africa.

Unlike the sad fate of the coalmine canary, who perished at the earliest indications of trouble, our credit canary is singing with renewed vigor as demand for its services rises as the poison in the credit atmosphere intensifies.

In many ways Iceland is the tip of the iceberg — the proverbial canary in the coalmine showing the need to better cope with over-indebted economies.

Qualcomm Ventures is likely the canary in the coalmine for the amount of waste and pet projects there are at Qualcomm.

That is how teenagers fit the role as the canary in the coalmine when they smell death and wasted life.

Elsewhere there are people trying to grow pinot noir, sometimes called wine's canary in the coalmine as it tolerates a narrower band of temperatures.

«This is really, to me, a canary in the coalmine for Governor Cuomo for 2018,» said Cox.

«Trout are one of the best indicators of healthy river ecosystems; they're the aquatic version of the canary in the coalmine,» says NRDC's Theo Spencer.

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