Sentences with phrase «for coal mining industry»

As President Trump announced on Thursday that the U.S. would leave the Paris climate agreement, he repeatedly expressed unwavering support for the coal mining industry.

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For shareholders, it made financial sense to get out of the industry a year ago, when mining stocks and coal prices were collapsing.

That statement may come as a surprise to non-UK readers, many of whom might well be forgiven for thinking the country's steel mills had gone the way of other legacy industries such as coal mining and shipbuilding.

«These examinations are part of the ACCC's investigation into allegations of cartel conduct regarding the 2009 tender process conducted by the NSW Department of Trade and Investment (formerly the Department of Primary Industries) for an exploration mining licence over the Mount Penny coal tenement in the Bylong Valley,» the commission said in a statement.

The economy is primarily driven by primary industry, natural resources and secondary industry including coal mining, processing and fossil - fuel power generation [8] for the National Electricity Market.

For instance regulations that are going to cripple the coal industry were voted against by Democrats from coal mining areas, despite their party's significant support for the measuFor instance regulations that are going to cripple the coal industry were voted against by Democrats from coal mining areas, despite their party's significant support for the measufor the measure.

Another group of rural voters are those who rely on extractive industries like coal mining, oil and gas drilling, and the like for their livelihood.

But EPA also recently approved 42 permits for Appalachian mining operations, including some mountaintop mines, and sided with the coal industry in opposing the rehearing of an appeals court case that could have decided whether the Army Corps has been improperly handling mountaintop permits.

Ankney worked in the Montana coal industry for over 30 years, arriving in Colstrip in the early 1980s to build the massive draglines used at the mine.

Oddly, as I pointed out earlier, the Friends of Coal industry front group is not attacking the legislation's impacts on coal — instead going for a general criticism of potential increases in energy costs to consumers. And as I've also pointed out, the United Mine Workers union concluded the bill ensured that «the future of coal will be intact (but still withheld its endorsement, seeking more concessions for coal companies and coal - fired utilitiCoal industry front group is not attacking the legislation's impacts on coal — instead going for a general criticism of potential increases in energy costs to consumers. And as I've also pointed out, the United Mine Workers union concluded the bill ensured that «the future of coal will be intact (but still withheld its endorsement, seeking more concessions for coal companies and coal - fired utiliticoal — instead going for a general criticism of potential increases in energy costs to consumers. And as I've also pointed out, the United Mine Workers union concluded the bill ensured that «the future of coal will be intact (but still withheld its endorsement, seeking more concessions for coal companies and coal - fired utiliticoal will be intact (but still withheld its endorsement, seeking more concessions for coal companies and coal - fired utiliticoal companies and coal - fired utiliticoal - fired utilities).

The coal mines that are opening are tiny and many of them will be producing metallurgical coal for the steel industry, not feeding coal - fired electric power plants for utilities.

Such ambition seems to suggest endless possibilities for the 14 - year - old Melia, but to leave little room for Caretta, a hometown that can offer only itself — a withered economy carved and emptied out by the coal - mining industry and courted chiefly by corporations interested in building a new landfill there.

The music industry has long been regarded as the canary in the coal mine for the content industries, and here we see digital - only works are rapidly gaining ground.

In an email dispatch to our Green Inc. blog, Somini Sengupta confirmed some reports that top Indian government and industry figures, with some $ 4 billion to spend, were shopping in Appalachia and elsewhere not just for American coal (exports of coal from the United States have growing for awhile), but coal mines.

Moving away from coal for power generation would help tremendously, and the mining industry needs to clean up its act.

Following a tumultuous year for the coal industry, including the disastrous coal - chemical spill that left 300,000 without access to clean water in West Virginia, and increasing layoffs as coal mining continues to decline, a coalition of Appalachian citizen groups are demanding increased action from the Obama Administration.

For almost a century, the coal industry thrived in Limburg, but in 1990, the area's seven mines closed, leaving 40,000 people unemployed.

Maybe put some of it into citizens pockets directly, spend some on job creating industries rather than on old industries that are cutting staff (coal mining for example), maybe a dozen other things that looked impossible before you decided to change your spending patterns.

We'll be trading away those jobs, tourism, restaurant industry for coal mine jobs for people flown in from out of state.

In Australia much of the financial support for Abbott's Liberal Party comes from the coal industry while in Canada PM Harper's support comes from the highly polluting tar - sands and oil - shale mining businesses.

Despite coal industry claims that coal mining creates lots of jobs, the truth is that coal mining employment has been declining for decades, due to increased use of machinery instead of manpower.

Like Scaife and Gulf Oil, Olin made his bucks in part from the fossil fuel industry via the Olin Corporation, which manufactured blasting powder for coal mining companies.

Yes, even the fossil fuel industry has, for example, the American Petroleum Institute, the Independent Petroleum Association of America, the National Mining Association, and the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity.

The industry had a willing booster in George W. Bush, who quickly broke his campaign promise to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant and appointed coal lobbyists to top positions in his administration, granting the industry a long and now familiar wish list of favors, including gutting the Clean Air Act and easing standards for mountaintop mining.

The CTI report says there will be no need for new coal mines, oil demand will peak around 2020, and growth in gas will disappoint industry expectations if world leaders agree and then implement the policies needed to meet the UN commitment to keep climate change below 2 ˚C − the threshold agreed by most governments.

For example, I had begun at junior level taught that gases had weight, that those heavier sink in air, those lighter rise, and the examples we were given was to the then important industry in Britain, coal mining, this knowledge was crucial to safety in mines.

In addition, the agency's voluntary domestic programs continue to promote opportunities for industry to cost - effectively reduce methane emissions from landfills, oil and gas systems, coal mines, and agricultural waste.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled against the National Mining Association, the State of West Virginia, the Commonwealth of Kentucky, and other coal industry groups, who brought the case against the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers.

The tide is turning against the thermal coal industry — high cost new mines don't make sense for investors

The Kentucky solar project, for instance, began in early 2016 when Ryan Johns, project development executive of Berkeley Energy, decided he wanted to help diversify the company's portfolio as the coal mining industry declines.

The Bureau of Land Management has not adjusted to the US coal mining industry's efforts to increase exports of publicly owned coal.The US coal mining industry is openly aiming to increase exports of publicly owned coal, and the federal coal leasing program has been faulted by multiple government audits for ignoring exports when determining the «fair market value» of leased coal.

So in as much as Canada's robust mining industry is still planning on shipping any of its much higher - value coal, there is simply no place to move US PRB coal except for little fragments here and there.

The annual $ 7 billion figure does not include industry freebies like publicly funded infrastructure for fossil fuel development on our shared land, inadequate financial protections to pay for coal mining cleanup, or decommissioning costs for offshore drilling.

«She did have reason for highlighting the possibility of global warming because the biggest threat to the UK energy security at the time was the stranglehold the Marxist National Union of Mine Workers had on the coal industry.

Roberts, a former coal miner and mining industry consultant, worked as the volunteer project manager for the Australia - based climate science denial organization The Galileo Movement.

Since 1979, WVU's National Research Center for Coal and Energy has advanced technology in key areas of concern to West Virginia's energy industry from coal mining and processing to oil and gas extraction, energy efficiency, mine land reclamation, health concerns, and water Coal and Energy has advanced technology in key areas of concern to West Virginia's energy industry from coal mining and processing to oil and gas extraction, energy efficiency, mine land reclamation, health concerns, and water coal mining and processing to oil and gas extraction, energy efficiency, mine land reclamation, health concerns, and water use.

Labor pretends to be concerned by climate change, but do nothing to stop support for the fossil fuel industry (Adani coal mine is a case in point), and continue the green wash of society who actually think that they are acting on the issue.

For example, even though Trump has vowed to bring back coal mining jobs, the coal extraction industry is on its last breaths, primarily as a result of energy market forces.

Avid TreeHugger readers will note that some of the groups aren't exactly the most climate - friendly groups out there, at least in industry association or what activities they fund (BoA's funding of mountaintop removal coal mining, for example).

But right now, the ski industry is the perfect coal - mine canary for its fallout.

Most recently, a report from The Carbon Tracker with a forward by Lord Stern of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change (London School of Economics), argued that serious risks are accumulating for investors in high carbon assets, such as coal mining companies and the oil and gas industry.

Not surprisingly, Americans for Balanced Energy Choices (ABEC), the charming little «grass - roots» organization funded by the coal mining industry who is running this ad campaign points only to the electricity generating side of clean coal technologies while overlooking the pollution created to mine and transport the stuff To quote Leah Arnold, their communications director, «We don't get into the mining issue.

Some audacious proposals have been floated for the U.S. government to simply buy out the entire coal mining industry, shut it down over a number of years and develop a program with transition payments, relocation assistance and job - training for workers losing their jobs.

(Given the massive subsidies that the coal industry has received over the years, Louie and Pearce suggest that companies should be required to finance a retraining fund — possibly patterned after the 1977 Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act, which mandates that companies pay into a federal fund for reclamation of abandoned mine land).

To follow common or related issues of fact or law in respect of the alledged liability of the National Coal Board and / or British Coal Corporation (NCB / BCC) their successors the Department for Trade & Industry (DTI) for chronic knee injury suffered by their employees as a result of underground work in mines between 1949 and 1994, where chronic knee injury means diabling symptoms of the knee joint (s) resulting from damage to the menisci and / or osteoarthritis, but does not include bursitis.

Acting for a claimant in high Court proceedings in relation to loans and investment in coal mining industry in an ex-Soviet country.

Mining for lignite - or brown coal - in Greece is a huge industry.

Revamped HR department from the ground up for staffing agency specializing in the coal mining industry.

Repaired many large parts for industries such as coal mining, rock crushers, and parts for roller coasters at Dollywood.

Nicknamed the Mountain State, West Virginia is known for its stunning Appalachian landscapes and its role in the coal mining and logging industries.