Sentences with phrase «if coal mining»

Mr Hooke said there would be severe economic consequences if coal mining ended but no tangible environmental dividend.

If coal mining emitted anywhere near that level it would dwarf all other sources of methane and atmospheric levels would be much higher (easily 5 ppm, maybe higher).

If coal mining emitted anywhere near that level it would dwarf all other sources of methane and atmospheric levels would be much higher (easily 5 ppm, maybe higher).

So, is it really crazy to believe that if coal mining is eliminated, the creation of cement could become the new number 1?

It will export its coal across the Great Barrier Reef, so shipping and dredging will all increase if this coal mine proceeds.

Not exact matches

Street Talk also won't be surprised if the owner of the Dartbrook mine, Australian Pacific Coal, ends up in some sort of «conscious coupling» with unlisted Mach Energy, which owns the nearby Mt Pleasant development project.

If the claims about the coal mines are proved true, he added, «it would show that these companies can be ripped off or tricked.

If one were to take the believer's approach, one should live about a mile down an abandoned coal mine to avoid a very, very unlikely, but fatal meteor impact.

Does anyone doubt» even for a moment» how the liberal Justices would have resolved the case if, instead of abortion clinics, coal mines, for example, or gun dealerships, or, heaven help us, tobacco shops would have been the «facilities» singled out for unique immunity?

So, while coal mining is obviously a negative environmentally, the elimination of coal mining may be nearly as bad (if not worse) environmentally, and will definitely be worse from an economic standpoint.

It is possible that the creation of cement will not be as bad as the pollution from coal - mining; however, in regards to «With the elimination of fly - ash alternatives, cement creation will quickly be the leading cause of green house gases» — If it is a top creator now, and we increase the usage, would you not expect it to climb the list?

You're right — coal mining very well be worse for the environment than the creation of cement, but even if so, that doesn't mean that it's a cure - all.

«Coal is good for air quality» as an advert, carries a lot more weight if it is endorsed by the World Health Organisation than if it's endorsed by a mining company.

Meanwhile, Eastern Kentucky is coal country, and if Trump crushes Clinton by landslide proportions there, he could be on his way to exceeding expectations in the mining and mill towns of southern Ohio and western Pennsylvania, too.

If Rockland County is the «canary in the coal mine» for the rest of the country, then at this rate the canary isn't going to make it.

«Because they allow us to distinguish if contaminants are coming from natural sources, fracking and shale gas development, coal mining, coal ash disposal, or other causes.»

If it includes a requirement to consider the life - cycle effects of greenhouse gases associated with the coal to be extracted, it might tip the scales against the new mine.

It remains too early to tell if this cutback in coal mining is a blip or evidence for the much - anticipated peak in the country's consumption of the most polluting fossil fuel.

But a coal mine in Illinois has revealed woods that, if not lovelier, are certainly darker and deeper — and a good bit older.

What in effect, we would be doing is displacing 300 oil - fired power plants and another 300 coal - fired power plants; so the land required for 600 fossil fuel power plants — if you are going to think that way, if you consider the whole system, which includes mining coal, which includes drilling for oil, the refining of all that, it's not just the power plant — that the land tradeoff actually gets to be fairly close, you know, the solar power plant is the footprint of the solar power and that's it.

As long as mountaintop removal mining continues coal can not be clean, even if the pollution from burning it can be minimized

Now, you have no place to buy coal mines even if you want to.

If a coal - burning power plant has several choices in buying coal from many nearby mines, it can easily avoid contract disputes with its nearest coal supplier by reaching out to alternative mines.

«If we continue with business - as - usual emissions, extreme seasons will inevitably become the norm within decades and Australia will be the canary in the coal mine that will experience this change first,» said Dr Lewis.

However, for specific numbers: US Coal mine emissions were on the order of 4 Tg / year in 1990, which is about 0.2 trillion cubic feet, if I've done my conversions right (1 Tg methane = 52 Billion cubic feet).

The World Energy Outlook 2016, released last week, is just one among an increasing line of studies showing how nations need to slow and, ultimately, phase out investment in new fossil fuel supply infrastructure — from oil fields and pipelines to coal mines — if they are serious about keeping warming to 2C or less.

If coal is to remain a part of our energy future, it must be mined responsibly, burned cleanly and guaranteed to not worsen global warming pollution.

Re: Dr. Mercola I have been reading his articles and newsletters for close to a decade and still can't decide if he is Chicken Little or The Canary in the Coal Mine.

Chloe Sevigny is Alicia, Lady Susan's confidant and gossip buddy... and one whose husband (Stephen Fry) continually threatens to ship back to Connecticut (as if it were the coal mines or outback).

New York, sadly, has been a canary in the Common Core coal mine, and if we do not heed the danger a generation of students will be lost.

Your sinkhole insurance policy may not provide coverage for damages from mine subsidence, so be sure to review your policy carefully to see if you need additional insurance if your Arizona property is on top of an old coal mine.

[Granted, US hedge fund / private equity valuations are collapsing... so if they're the canary in the coal mine, we may have a much bigger S&P collapse on our hands!

Whilst the symptoms don't match carbon monoxide poisoning; I will mention that if you have a wood burning stove, ensure that it is serviced annually to ensure you aren't putting your life at risk, a small dog can be like a canary in a coal mine as they are more adversely affected by small amount of carbon monoxide than humans.

Trying out high - priced ports of earlier games might be a good canary in the coal mine to see if people are receptive to spending big money on Nintendo games on mobile up front.

Finally, the nonprofit group Appalachian Voices has created ilovemountains.org/myconnection, which allows visitors to type in a ZIP code and find out if their utility sells electricity produced with coal mined from mountaintops in that region.

If in situ gasification of coal is feasible — and it's been done in Russia for decades — then a great deal of the stuff is potentially exploitable, even that left behind in closed underground mines.

Would the U.S. rather have them working in coal mines, new coal plants, gas stations, and Hummer factories, or standing on street corners, or would it be best for all concerned if they worked building solar panels, constructing large windmills, and helping to quickly construct clean CCS pilot plants?

When my brother and I were little kids, we had to look out for sink holes related to old collapsed coal mines and their entrances, and we were all scared to death of quicksand, although I don't know if that was due to having quicksand in the area or to watching Tarzan movies every Saturday morning.

So if the world moves toward a system for tracking emissions, who is responsible for a particular batch of carbon dioxide — the company that mined and sold the coal, the power plant that burned it, the consumer who buys the exported widget made with the electricity generated by that combustion, or...?

That is we have to end all mining of any more coal, all pumping of any more oil, and all fracking (or otherwise extracting) of any more NG, and we have to stop all this massive UN-sequestration of otherwise - safely - buried carbon as quickly as possible if not much, much sooner.

If we choose to use our own abundant coal resources to provide the energy for electricity, heating, and motive power; remove CO2 from the coal - fired electrical generationg plant smokestacks, and add better safety systems to the mines, we will have done all that we need to do other than greatly improve and enlarge our public transportation systems, and the reliability of our power grid system.

If implemented, proposals for scores of new mines and mine expansions, along with expansion of railroad and terminal infrastructure, will lead to an even greater increase in Australia's coal exports.

One of those liabilities could be Murray Energy, the largest privately owned coal mining company in the U.S. Robert Murray, the company's CEO has said that if FirstEnergy goes under, it could take Murray Energy with it.

Credits for using giant machines to remove the gas are not likely to be accepted internationally for a long time, if at all, not least because the industrial infrastructure needed for extraction would need to be about as big as the infrastructure that puts it there — oil wells, coal mines, railways, pipelines, power plants, refineries and so on.

It was as if nineteenth - century coal miners blamed their lot on the gruel purity standards being imposed on mining camp cafeterias.

In Australia, the coal industry, and the mining industry in general, is enormously wealthy and stands to lose a huge amount if we move to a low - carbon future.

If climate change continues to have a negative impact on these tourism spots and natural wonders, it could have a huge effect on the local economy, too, as tourism is Australia's second-most valuable export, employing more than 580,000 people — 15 times more than the coal mining industry.

New coal mines and gas wells are a particular concern since most, if not all, coal and gas from NEW extraction projects will be exported.

So if the United States is buying the dirtiest stuff, it also surely will be going after oil in the deepest ocean, the Arctic, and shale deposits; and harvesting coal via mountaintop removal and long — wall mining.

With some guidance from a GIS specialist at OSM we believe this map provides a decent overview of the known high - priority abandoned coal mines, but please let us know if you discover any mistakes by commenting below.