Sentences with phrase «in coal pits»

The Yorkshire Terrier was developed in the north of England about the mid-19th century, chiefly for the job of controlling the rat population in the coal pits and cotton mills.

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Hazel was the seventh of eight children who grew up in the hamlet of Pwll y Lord - The Lord's Pit, referring to a coal mine which closed in the 1890's.

Brimstone was embedded in the side of the pit and glowed red like hot coals of fire.

Now that might not be the technical term but basically we dug a pit, had a huge Bon fire, used the coals in the pit, used a whole box of foil, & cooked us an Amazing turkey that had No clean up!

He lightly salts 15 - pound pork shoulders, using no rub and no basting, and then the shoulders are placed on metal racks in the pit and are cooked over hickory coals (some use oak) shoveled from a burning chamber (see above) into the pit, below the shoulders.

Originally cooked over coals in pits dug in the ground, pollo pibil is most often baked in ovens these days.

Growing up in a village in Punjab, India, she learned from her elders the secrets of cooking over the coals of a small clay pit.

Build a charcoal or wood fire in a pit or a grill and allow fire to burn down until coals are completely covered with ash.

Now, I won't actually be cooking it this way, because I have limited time and no pit in which to dig and fire coals, but after you've put toothpicks into Dutch pancakes, you're probably not too concerned with authenticity.

Francis Tully found his fossilized monster in discarded rocks at an Illinois coal pit in 1958.

A study by the World Resources Institute last October showed 51 percent of planned coal - power plants in China were in regions with severe water shortages, potentially pitting energy production against agriculture and basic needs for clean water.

It shares one major element with that film: it centers around the 1984 miners strike, where the coal miners stopped work for almost a year in an (ultimately unsuccessful) attempt to stop Margaret Thatcher's attempt to close down the pits.

Where the rest of us saw only the empty overgrown meadow behind our house, riddled with groundhog holes, with a shallow, muddy stream running through it and a splintering wooden wagon that I had almost outgrown, he saw his friends: artists and teachers and butchers, scenic painters and Russian lighting designers, ship captains and hardware merchants all with a glass in hand, their laughter rising high above our heads and then evaporating into the canopy of maple leaves; the weeping willows shedding their leaf tears down the banks of the stream; fireflies and bagpipers arriving through the low clinging humidity of summer; a giant pit with four spring lambs roasting over apple - wood coals; the smell of wood smoke hanging in the moist summer nighttime air.

There is a small electric bar fridge, with meals cooked outside using a Coleman stove or grilled over coals in the fire pit.

The fire pit in front of the Tiki Bar glows bright at 3 a.m., a 15 - foot inferno condensed into an oval of incandescent coal.

Railroad lines, new roads and iron trestles, blast furnaces, smokestacks, rail stations and coal pits are all represented in his paintings.

The real news coming out of these talks is what happened outside the negotiating halls: massive protests at Germany's open pit coal mines with Pacific islanders standing in solidarity, governments joining a new initiative to power past coal, Norway's push to ditch oil and gas investments, and the emergence of non-state actors as a powerful force for change.

Consider, for example, Cerrejón, an immense set of open pit coal mines in northern Colombia near the Caribbean coast.

However, in recent years, the region's dairy farms, vineyards, and ranches have become islands surrounded by oceans of open - pit coal mines.

However, in recent years, the region's farms have become islands surrounded by oceans of open - pit coal mines.

They felt left alone in the struggle against the polluting coal industry, and many had had already lost their homes or will soon if the pit continues to expand.

In parallel, the Ende Gelände direct actions targeting the open mining pit, with activists occupying sites on the mine and blocking coal trains.

Between Friday and Sunday, excavation was stopped in part of the pit and 80 coal train trips were stopped between the mine and the power plant that burns its coal, which powered down to just 20 % of its capacity.

He pointed out that a top political priority for his government is the gigantic Adani company open pit Carmichael coal mine and rail project in Queensland, which will export its coal to plants in India serving serving 100 million people.

Surface mining has also become a dominant driver of land - use change and water pollution in certain regions of the world, where mountaintop removal, coal and tar sands exploitation, and other open pit mining methods strip land surfaces of forests and topsoils, produce vast quantities of toxic sludge and solid waste, and often fill valleys, rivers, and streams with the resulting waste and debris [81].

Over the years, it has faced multiple threats from proposed open - pit coal mines, gold mines and oil and gas drilling, prompting American Rivers to name it one of the nation's Most Endangered Rivers in 2009.

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The union movement in B.C. has scored a victory with the decision by a mining company to halt plans to create an open - pit coal mine using temporary foreign workers.

Imagine if the «slow process of decisional accretion» found its next layer of clay in a test case by some coal - rolling enthusiast fighting a ticket for driving solo in the HOV lane... with his pit bull.