Sentences with phrase «in coalfield»

Traffic school in Coalfield Tennessee can be completed online in the comfort of your home.

While we're on the question of Ric Stowe and his Griffin Coal Company, bar - room chatter coming out of Collie indicates that life is about to get somewhat tougher in the coalfields and a new round of cost cutting may be on the way — with interesting variat

Sean Brock grew up in the coalfields of southwest Virginia and began his lifelong love affair with food in his grandmother's kitchen, garden and preserved - food - filled basement.

As we say here in the coalfields of Southwest Virginia — There's more than one way to skin a possum.»

You may not live in the coalfields, but as Rev. Billy can attest you can still fight to end mountaintop removal from wherever you are.

The two witnesses — the only people living in the coalfields on the entire witness list — were Maria Gunnoe, who is an organizer with the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, and Bo Webb, a member of Coal River Mountain Watch.

The video features voice recordings of local people recounting the daily struggles of life in the coalfields as well as traditional music of Appalachia.

I have held on to my dream of a little white house and pickett fence, I grew up in the coalfields of eastern Ky. and we had the barest essentials and not much else.

Not exact matches

Eastern Kentucky lost 21.6 percent of its coal jobs during the quarter, while the drop in the state's western coalfield was 12.2 percent.

Foreign miners are ready to pounce on any supply disruption caused by Aurizon's controversial new approach to railway maintenance in the Queensland coalfields, with Canadian miner Teck warning the stoush could «definitely have an impact» on coal markets.

In many coalfield communities, the purity and availability of drinking water are keen concerns.

During the miners» strike, at the first show I went up to the coalfields there's some old geezer called Jock Purdon who must have been in his mid-70s who's on the bill with me.

Far from viewing people from these coalfield areas, such as in Barnsley where I represent, as ordinary, decent, hard - working people employed in a valuable and vital part of our economy, they presented the striking miners as dangerous «revolutionaries» to be defeated.

Meanwhile, the posts of shadow chancellor and shadow home secretary are likely to be held by two other MPs who represent seats in that swathe of the Yorkshire coalfield between Leeds and Doncaster.

«There is a bit of a difference between areas such as London and the cities... and places like Mansfield which is a coalfield area in the Midlands, where actually we lost.»

They make it clear that Labour still tends to win big in the Swadlincote area, but the Tories win very slightly bigger still in Repton, Melbourne & the villages outside the traditional coalfield area.

For about 10 kilometers, the river passes through the Hobet 21 surface mining complex, which has been active since the 1970s and is among the largest in the Appalachian coalfields.

The first prototype was tested in the German coalfields, Sahara Desert and the Arctic circle in 1974.

When I was a child in the West Virginia coalfields, I was terribly near - sighted, a fact not discovered until I was in the fourth grade.

As a point of reference, let's compare its net carbon content with the Gillette Coalfield in the Powder river basin, one of the largest coal deposits in the world.

Given the larger factors at play, do coalfield communities in Appalachia really need another divisive campaign built around calling political and regulatory matters a «war»?

While the company flagged in 2007 that it sees coal from Mozambique coalfields holding «high potential to serve India's rapidly growing demand» [106] it has yet to announce any projects.

The march follows the route of thousands of coal miners in what became the historic Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921 — the largest class warfare armed confrontation in U.S. labor history, when miners battled police and strikebreakers backed by the coal operators for five days seeking to unionize the coalfields, until the President ordered the U.S. Army to put down the insurrection.

Faced with unprecedented demand in the state, we worked with partners to launch the first solar job training and apprenticeship program in West Virginia — bringing jobs and opportunities to the coalfields.

Coalfield Development, a nonprofit social enterprise in West Virginia, is working to turn former coal mining areas and mountaintop removal sites into farmland and forest, using farm animals to root out invasive plants and fertilize the depleted soil.

In the Kent coalfield pits like Betteshanger were 3000 feet deep and it was common to see face workers wearing a safety helmet, safety boots, and a smile.

Dr Joachim Geisler, CEO of MIBRAG, explained: «The acquisition of the Helmstedt coalfield is an important investment in the future for MIBRAG.

Appalachia Rising, a mass mobilization calling for the abolition of mountaintop removal coal mining, converged thousands of coalfield residents and supporters in Washington D.C. for a conference called «Voices of the Mountains» and a mass march and action.

They also spoke of 19 peer - reviewed scientific studies that indicate that coal mining and mountaintop removal mining specifically are contributing to tremendously high rates of cancer and birth defects in Appalachian coalfield areas.

The coal industry has long been the backbone of the region's economy and the main employer of generations of working - class families living in the Appalachian coalfields.

The maps below show hotspots of biodiversity based on a rarity - weighted index biological diversity produced by the Nature Conservancy, as well as the major river systems with headwaters in the Appalachian coalfields.

In many coalfield communities, the purity and availability of drinking water are keen concerns.»

Amazing full HD 1920 x 1080 aerial video of the Appalachian coalfields, shot entirely in southern West Virginia.

We partnered with a nonprofit called Coalfield Development Corporation to develop a program to build the solar workforce in West Virginia.