Sentences with phrase «global coal miners»
The resulting plunge in coal prices has turned into hard times for global coal miners.
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Perth - based coal miner Ascot Resources has received commitments from global commodity trader Gunvor Group for a $ 5 million equity capital investment in its $ 11.2 million raising.
BHP Billiton said on Thursday jobs could go at its Australian coal mines as the company faces a deteriorating market, the latest sign of global miners scaling back operations due to slowing industrial activity in China.
But coal is not «cheap» for the Appalachian communities destroyed by mountaintop removal (see appvoices.org), nor for the miners killed or sickened because worker safety would be too costly for mine owners, nor for the areas made permanently dead from the mining practices, nor for the children poisoned by the toxic fumes of even the cleanest - burning coal plants, not to mention the entire planet, every species, every community, every neighborhood being damaged and degraded by the global warming coal burning causes.
«As we enter the second decade of the 21st century experiencing a horrific oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a devastating natural gas explosion in California, death of 25 West Virginia coal miners, kidnapped uranium miners in Niger — it's about time for the United States to reposition itself as a global leader in solar and the entire portfolio renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies critical to our economic and national security,» said Scott Sklar, president of the Stella Group, which promotes renewable power generation.
[1] They are up against a formidable array of political, corporate, and cultural forces that is reminiscent of what the miners were up against 90 years ago — with the added threats of global climatic disruption from coal - burning and the devastating assault on the mountains and environment of Appalachia by destructive modern technology.
I would be a bit surprised if it comes from Monckton, since it was his former boss, Margaret Thatcher, who peddled the Global Warming theory as a weapon to destroy the miner's unions and the coal mines.
If you tell a miner that you want to close the coal mines because this could lead to a «global» warming in 1 century of 2 °C instead of, say, 3 °C, he won't ask you for your p - values.