Sentences with phrase «from coal mining operations»

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The giant mining operations of Asia stack thousands of computers in dimly lit factory buildings powered by cheap electricity from coal - fed generating plants.

We had a former coal mine operator, a motorcycle dealership owner, a commercial airline pilot, a security special operations manager, a real estate broker, a person from the private equity sector, a hedge fund manager, a car dealership manager, and a person that worked in digital marketing.

In addition to the Company's mining operations, the Company markets and broker coals from its operations and other coal producers, both as principal and agent, and trade coal and freight - related contracts through trading and business offices.

It is that aspect of the law that frightens environmental groups that have fought for years for the coal - mining rule and another rule to restrict energy companies from burning off natural gas during drilling operations on public lands.

Govender cites changes to the river's ecosystem that stem from infrastructure outside the park, including hundreds of coal - mining operations upstream, where crocodiles have disappeared almost completely, and a dam downstream of the gorge.

It has participated in lawsuits surrounding the operation's environmental impact — leaks from the mine's coal ash ponds have been an environmental concern in the area for years (Greenwire, Oct. 23, 2013).

The latest evidence comes in an Earth Day news release from Peabody Energy, the largest private coal company, which is thriving both domestically and through rapidly growing coal exports from its worldwide mining operations to China, India and other developing countries.

But there is still huge untapped potential for capturing emissions from gas wells, oil tanks, coal mines, landfills, livestock operations and other sources.

In best practice a detailed rehabilitation or reclamation plan is designed and approved for each coal mine, covering the period from the start of operations until well after mining has finished.

In one example from the report, government - backed Yancoa last year bought Rio Tinto's thermal coal mine operations in Australia's Hunter Valley.

(Although mining operations began in October 2009, the fight to save Coal River Mountain from complete destruction continues.)

Peabody's strategy has been to seek an involvement in coal projects in Mongolia with the aim of exporting to the Chinese market, expand its Australian operations, enter the Indonesian market and look to expand exports from its Powder River Basin mines in the U.S. to supply the Pacific market.

Air pollution is a considerable problem in Serbia, much of it due to emissions of CO2, ash, sulphur and nitrogen oxides from coal - fired power plants and mining operations.

It is also barred from obtaining planning permission or any other authorisations required for carrying on coal mining operations.

«[Norway's] Finance Committee recommends the exclusion of «coal power companies and mining companies, who themselves or through operations they control, base 30 % or more of their activities on coal, and / or derive 30 % of their revenues from coal.»

While boondoggles involving wood chips from natural forests have emerged due to foolish regulation, a more gradual approach to conversion could well support a growth industry in «renewable» coal replacements, while allowing existing mining operations to use up their resources with little interference.

In December 2008, the Bush Administration approved a final rule that made it easier for coal companies to dump rock and other mine waste from mountaintop removal mining operations into nearby streams and valleys.

There are laws and rules that address the impacts of current mining operations and abandoned mine sites; air pollution from coal combustion; and disposal of the ash left over after coal is burned.

Since a mountaintop - removal operation moved in in 2000, Maria Gunnoe has tried to protect her home and community from the effects of mountaintop removal coal mining.

The remainder is methane (9 %, from landfills, coal mines, oil and gas operations and agriculture); nitrous oxide (5 %, from burning fossil fuels and from certain fertilizers); refrigerants and other «engineered» chemicals (2 %); and carbon dioxide from other sources (2 %).

The analysis also included calculations of a producer's direct emissions via flaring and venting processes, emissions from entities using their own fuel, and fugitive emissions of methane from oil and gas operations and coal mining.

In Oregon, for example, Governor Kate Brown signed a bill that will move the state to 50 percent renewable energy production by 2040 and end the state's use of coal power by 2030; in Montana, sagging demand and economic pressures caused Arch Coal to scrap its plans for a massive strip - mining operation on federal land; and in a recent Gallup poll, 64 percent of Americans said they worried a «great deal» or «fair amount» about global warming, up from 55 percent only a year coal power by 2030; in Montana, sagging demand and economic pressures caused Arch Coal to scrap its plans for a massive strip - mining operation on federal land; and in a recent Gallup poll, 64 percent of Americans said they worried a «great deal» or «fair amount» about global warming, up from 55 percent only a year Coal to scrap its plans for a massive strip - mining operation on federal land; and in a recent Gallup poll, 64 percent of Americans said they worried a «great deal» or «fair amount» about global warming, up from 55 percent only a year ago.

«Over the past two years, Norges Bank, following upon its investment mandates from the Norwegian Parliament (Stortinget) and the Minister of Finance, divested the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG)'s of its holdings in at least 49 companies with substantial operations related to mining and burning of coal.