Sentences with phrase «including coal mining»

Wole has advised and managed many multi-million dollar arbitral disputes including a coal mining contractor pricing review arbitration worth in excess of US$ 350m.

Wollongong has a proud association with industry including coal mining and steel manufacture and is home to a large industrial port facility.

The Australian government has been criticized for failing to protect the reef from agricultural pollution and other threats, including coal mining.

In the past, a few trading systems have auctioned some of their permits, but «big carbon» — including coal mining firms and owners of coal - fired power plants — is organizing to resist such attempts.

The economy is primarily driven by primary industry, natural resources and secondary industry including coal mining, processing and fossil - fuel power generation [8] for the National Electricity Market.

Justify that claim: Calculate the Total mass of carbon and hydrogen «burned» by «man» over each of ten years (this would include all coal mined, all oil pumped, all natural gas burned, (and the vanishly small mass of wood burned by 4th world peasants).

We have been contacted with requests for information and assistance by affected people living in urban as well as rural areas, and the noise and vibration sources have included coal mining, gas fired power stations, large refrigeration units with compressors and swimming pool compressors in city apartment blocks.

ACCCE members include coal mining companies, railroad companies, along with electric cooperatives and two of the largest utility companies, American Electric Power and Southern Company.

Not exact matches

That includes not just coal but also oil and gas extraction, metal ore mining, stone quarrying and other jobs.

This crackdown is partly due to a string of recent, highly - publicized disasters including the West Virginia coal mine explosion, an oil rig south of Louisiana that blew up, and a fire at a Washington State oil refinery.

«We were the canaries in the coal mine,» Tilson said about investors including Einhorn, who bet that Lehman Brothers would crash months before the investment bank filed for bankruptcy in 2008.

The company's unchanged coal production guidance includes the largely offsetting impacts of Glencore's acquisition of Rio Tinto's 82 % interest in the Hail Creek mine, in Australia, and lower production from Prodeco in 2018, before returning to higher levels in 2019.

Thanksgiving guests included uncles who worked in the nearby coal mines, grandfathers who remembered fighting for the Confederacy, and aunts who were honest - to - goodness relatives of the American hero Daniel Boone.

BES customers also extensively cover heavy haulage rail including iron ore, coal and other mining industries, bulk handling, sugar, transport terminal and port loading infrastructure users of railway equipment.

This year Rio Tinto has announced agreed sales totalling US$ 2.5 billion, including US$ 850 million for the undeveloped potash assets in Argentina and Canada, US$ 750 million for the Corumbá iron ore operation in Brazil, US$ 761 million for the Jacobs Ranch coal mine in the United States and US$ 125 million for the Ningxia aluminium smelter in China.

He pledges to lower corporate taxes; support a fence on the U.S. southern border to improve security; repeal the health care bill; issue tax credits to students attending non-public and charter schools; support domestic energy production, including oil drilling, coal mining and natural gas extraction; and invest in creating alternative energy sources.

Levels of the potent greenhouse gas continue to rise and scientists aren't sure where most of it is coming from, though likely suspects include fracking, increased coal mining in China and a melting Arctic

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.

Govender cites changes to the river's ecosystem that stem from infrastructure outside the park, including hundreds of coal - mining operations upstream, where crocodiles have disappeared almost completely, and a dam downstream of the gorge.

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.

According to a RAN report published in June, 25 banks, including Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and BNP Paribas, have invested $ 784 billion in coal mining, coal power, «extreme oil» and liquefied natural gas facilities between 2013 and 2015 (ClimateWire, June 15).

Globally, the largest sources include emissions from small - scale and artisanal gold mining and coal - burning power plants.

China is also home to 5 of the 10 most polluted cities on the planet, according to China's own State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA)-- including the major coal - mining city of Linfen, the most polluted city in the world.

The measures include stemming methane leaks from coal mines or landfills and stopping black carbon pollution from primitive stoves and diesel construction equipment.

But EPA also recently approved 42 permits for Appalachian mining operations, including some mountaintop mines, and sided with the coal industry in opposing the rehearing of an appeals court case that could have decided whether the Army Corps has been improperly handling mountaintop permits.

In September 2005, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a United Nations organization that includes scientists from nearly every country in the world, released a report estimating that 2 trillion tons of carbon dioxide could be stored in old coal mines, abandoned oil and gas fields, and in various other geologic formations around the world.

Others include: toxic by - products from polysilicon manufacture dumped indiscriminately in China; air pollution spewed from coal - fired power plants that provide the electricity needed to produce photovoltaics; and recovering cadmium, a known human carcinogen that is a primary ingredient in some thin - film solar cells, from mining slimes.

For example, a study by Vasilis Fthenakis and Hung Chul Kim of Columbia University (2009) found that, on a life - cycle electricity - output basis — including direct and indirect land transformation — utility - scale PV in the U.S. Southwest requires less land than the average U.S. power plant using surface - mined coal.

The proposed technology in this project does not include mining, since the coal fly ash will already be at the surface.

Teck Resources Limited is a Canadian metals and mining company.Teck's principal products include coal, copper, zinc, with secondary products including lead, silver, gold, molybdenum, germanium, indium and cadmium.

Water Pollution from Coal includes negative health and environmental effects from the mining, processing, burning, and waste storage of coal, including acid mine drainage, thermal pollution from coal plants, acid rain, and contamination of groundwater, streams, rivers, and seas from heavy metals, mercury, and other toxins and pollutants found in coal ash, coal sludge, and coal waCoal includes negative health and environmental effects from the mining, processing, burning, and waste storage of coal, including acid mine drainage, thermal pollution from coal plants, acid rain, and contamination of groundwater, streams, rivers, and seas from heavy metals, mercury, and other toxins and pollutants found in coal ash, coal sludge, and coal wacoal, including acid mine drainage, thermal pollution from coal plants, acid rain, and contamination of groundwater, streams, rivers, and seas from heavy metals, mercury, and other toxins and pollutants found in coal ash, coal sludge, and coal wacoal plants, acid rain, and contamination of groundwater, streams, rivers, and seas from heavy metals, mercury, and other toxins and pollutants found in coal ash, coal sludge, and coal wacoal ash, coal sludge, and coal wacoal sludge, and coal wacoal waste.

Former NASA lead scientist James Hansen is so concerned for the future of his grandchildren, he was forced to become an activist, including an arrest to oppose mountain - top removal coal mining.

The main sources of arsenic pollution include certain pesticides and herbicides, wood preservatives, phosphate fertilizers, industrial waste, mining activities, coal burning and smelting (17, 18, 19).

Find out about other resources the National Coal Mining Museum for England offers including loans boxes, outreach, workshops and more: www.ncm.org.uk / learning

Song selections include «Working in the Coal Mine» by Lee Dorsey, «Respect» by Aretha Franklin, and «Somewhere Out There,» performed by Linda Ronstadt and James Ingram.

Mining companies explore for, develop and produce minerals, including uranium, coal, molybdenum (which is used in steelmaking), copper, silver and gold.

Like the canary in the coal mine, the silencing of large numbers of our birds due to a multiplicity of human - related factors, including cat predation, is a warning to us to act now in support of our bird populations.

Highlights include the Flying Doctor Service, Hawker, Flinders Ranges, Blinman, Copley view Aboriginal cave paintings, Leigh Creek the coal mining town, Farina, Marree, Lake Torrens, Andamooka Sheep and Cattle Station.

Photographs depict Nara's visit to historic Japanese sites across the island, including the Kurei reindeer festival near the Dimauz river, the Otas Forest in Poronaisk, and the former Oji Paper Company, Kawakami coal mine, and Ainu village.

Featuring work from the gallery's extensive collection as well as contemporary commissions, it includes Kai Wiedenhöfer's series on refugee children, Forty Out of One Million, and Wendy Erwald's 1970s project, Portrait and Dreams, a collaboration with children she taught in a coal - mining community in the Appalachians.

The collection also includes a generous donation from François Depeaux — a major collector of Impressionist painting and patron of Alfred Sisley — who decided to give his beloved Swansea (where he established his business in coal mining) an important group of works by artists from Rouen where he lived.

Her online artist statement doesn't try to aestheticise this ugly reality but on the contrary includes Lock The Gate's web site which states: «The residents of the Bylong Valley, like communities all around NSW, want action to protect land and water resources from coal mining.

Cala's work is in several museum collections, including in the Silesian Museum of Katowice, the Silesian Library in Katowice, the Upper Silesian Museum in Bytom, the Coal Mining Museum in Zabrze, and in the local government building in Duisburg in the Ruhr, Germany, and various private collections.

The sweeping strokes and rapid brushwork of both impastoed and diluted paint are the result of considerable thought, and include numerous figural references to a variety of imagery including bridges, tunnels and coal - mining equipment, as well as calligraphy.

Such works include The Attraction of Onlookers (2006), commissioned by the BBC to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of a Welsh coal mining disaster; Racing Clocks Run Slow: Archaeology of a Racetrack (2008), commissioned to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the Bridgehampton Auto Racing Track; and Sightings: The Ecology of an Art Museum (2008), commissioned by the de Young Museum in San Francisco.

I was trying to estimate the mining footprints of solar and nuclear, and came up with some very tentative rough estimates that ore input for solar energy might have an energy density (per unit mass) ~ 5 to 80 times coal, while nuclear (convential US fuel cycle) may be ~ 20 times coal — on the solar side, this doesn't include some balance of system components, and on the nuclear side, it only includes the U, but on the solar side, the actual energy density could get much higher with recycling of the same material into multiple successive generations of solar energy devices, and on the nuclear side, breeder reactors.

There's much more, including on - the - ground reporting from the 750 - megawatt Trianel power plant in Luenena, Germany, which only burns imported coal (Germany is closing down its coal mines).

The multiple rivers that carry torrential tropical / sub-tropic rains to the coast will be immediately affected in the river mouths and that will get worse and WILL fundamentally CHANGE THE LANDSCAPE OF 2,300 kilometres OF Coastline, m river systems and farming land and cities and towns and villages and MINING OPERATIONS like open cut coal mines etc inland before one gets to the great dividing range which BTW supports a population of approximately 1 million people and contributes possibly 25 % or more of QLD GDP and it's massive Exports to the world including FOOD SUPPLY.

Not to be outdone, the other winners of print, online, TV and radio reporting awards focused attention on a wide variety of issues including the behaviors of marine mammals, toxicity of pesticides, nuclear and coal energy, and uranium mining.

Following a tumultuous year for the coal industry, including the disastrous coal - chemical spill that left 300,000 without access to clean water in West Virginia, and increasing layoffs as coal mining continues to decline, a coalition of Appalachian citizen groups are demanding increased action from the Obama Administration.