Sentences with phrase «history of coal mining»

With a long history of coal mining and heavy industry and the aforementioned winter gloom, Germany is not the country you'd naturally think of as a solar power.

Given the history of coal mining in the area, each location needs to be treated with care so as not to convolve gas fluxes that come directly from past or present mining activities with those that are following new drill holes as the release pathway.

The authors noted the presence of sources of coalbed methane — a common peril in coal mines throughout the history of coal mining — near the methane hot spots they found (the supplementary information is here).

«Unlike other exhibitions that have treated the subject of art and coal, this is not an illustrated history of coal mining, but places the emphasis on the visual transformations caused by coal within the history of art from the late 18th century to the present,» said Ades.

Two world wars which leveled the town twice, a complicated history of coal mining and its eventual collapse, and one could argue the natural disaster which caused the prehistoric forests to solidify over millions of years.

It has a rich industrial history of coal mining particularly in the main town of Longyearbyen, named after its most famous coal mining entrepreneur.

Dai Smith talks about the history of coal mining and what turned Cardiff around (hint: he's the head of the Arts Council) and what makes Cardiff one of the fastest growing cities in Europe.

Jeannie Kielty, who works on community relations for Banks, says open cast is part of the social fabric of the northeast, an area with a long history of coal mining.

Not exact matches

He'll have plenty of support: Interior Secretary nominee Ryan Zinke, who would oversee the federal coal leasing program, has a long history of support for coal mining on public lands.

It is a closed coal mine that's open to the public and you'll be taken on a tour which explains the personal experiences of the miners and the rich history of the mines.

Woodson, who worked in Kentucky coal mines to support himself until he was able to enroll in high school at the age of 20, went on to receive his Ph.D. from Harvard and to found Negro History Week, the predecessor of today's February observance.

Longyearbyen, the «capital» of Svalbard and its main town, is named after John Munro Longyear, an American who owned the Arctic Coal Company which surveyed and mined on Svalbard (the islands have a rich mining history) at the turn of the 20th century.

My encounter with the miners and their families resulted in a 51 - piece series of photolithographs, with hand - written cursive texts that I wrote in French detailing their oral histories, memories, work, and labor in the coal mines.

The imagery is derivative of aspects of the artist's personal history and heritage, and the working lives of his ancestors, of fishing and coal - mining.

Musicians have a long history of working for social change, whether it's Bono and Albert Schweitzer working on behalf of Africa's poor, Aunt Molly Jackson working on behalf of coal mining families, Pablo Casals working to defeat the Fascists in Spain, or Haydn writing the Farewell Symphony to secure better working conditions for Prince Esterhazy's servants.

Our Mountain Justice Summer camp will feature nine days of workshops, trainings, learning about coal mining and mountaintop removal and Appalachian history and culture.

Despite this, the U.S. government has a long history of giving away our public land to coal companies — so much that today, 40 percent of the coal mined in the United States belongs to taxpayers.

Dave is fascinated by the possibility that the key to understanding the future of world coal production may be in the history of the mining areas in the northern Appalachians and the north of England.

«The Court's action today is critical to protecting the people of Appalachia and our water supplies from what would have been one of the most harmful mountaintop removal coal mining sites in the history of our region,» said Bill Price, an organizer for the Sierra Club based in West Virginia.

So if you have a family history of a certain illness (like cancer) or work in a place where you are vulnerable to develop a disorder (lung problems due to working in a coal mine), it is a good idea to buy this kind of a plan before the tragedy strikes.