Sentences with phrase «into coal mines»

Dr. Stephen H. Schneider, a Stanford University biology professor, invoked the image of canaries carried into coal mines to warn of noxious gas.

«We might like some help to transition, we might like better rules of the game in terms of taxation and in terms of copyright, but we don't want the government to make us into coal mines in Britain and support us in perpetuity.»

The prime minister has paid tribute to the «incredibly important» contribution of the young men conscripted into coal mining during the second world war.

Host Yul Kwon, a former telecommunications attorney and winner of the Survivor 2006 season, guides viewers on a sweeping tour of the nation that has them flying over California's largest reservoir (at left), descending into a coal mine in Wyoming, and perching atop a wind turbine in Washington State.

Yancoal did when they tried to swallow her Rosedale farm into a coal mine.

Not exact matches

Civil contracting and mining services firm NRW Holdings has dipped into the red with a $ 120.6 million half - year loss, but announced a $ 330 million contract extension with Middlemount Coal.

One «canary in the coal mine» could be a move further away from high - yield bonds and into investment - grade fixed income.

India is building railroad lines that crisscross the country to connect underused coal mines with growing urban populations, threatening to dump more resources into an already glutted market.

Moving to dismantle former President Barack Obama's legacy on the environment and other issues, House Republicans approved a measure Wednesday that scuttles a regulation aimed at preventing coal mining debris from being dumped into nearby streams.

The Interior Department said in announcing the rule in December that it would protect 6,000 miles of streams and 52,000 acres of forests, preventing coal mining debris from being dumped into nearby waters.

Youths pack the coal into sacks and carry it out of the mine on their backs, or to a small cable car for the trip upward.

Since the ACLU protects the KKK and other disliked groups, how about a little support for this atheist, who is simply the canary in the coal mine when it comes to warning us of the creeping descent into Shariah law in this country.

«To coal and iron mines, to freight trains, to fishing fleets in December, to dishwashing, clothes - washing, and window - washing, to road - building and tunnel - making, to foundries and stoke - holes, and to the frames of skyscrapers, would our gilded youths be drafted off, according to their choice, to get the childishness knocked out of them, and to come back into society with healthier sympathies and more sober ideas.

«These examinations are part of the ACCC's investigation into allegations of cartel conduct regarding the 2009 tender process conducted by the NSW Department of Trade and Investment (formerly the Department of Primary Industries) for an exploration mining licence over the Mount Penny coal tenement in the Bylong Valley,» the commission said in a statement.

Moses and Paul Obeid have filed an application (NSD490 / 2014) in the Federal Court challenging s 155 notices issued to them by the ACCC as part of the ACCC's investigation into alleged cartel conduct relating to the 2009 tender process for an exploration mining licence over the Mount Penny coal tenement in the Bylong Valley.

In an area which was dominated by coal mining and which fell into economic decline following the closure of the mines, investment in infrastructure was a necessity to bring a new age of economic activity such as the regeneration of Seaham Town Centre and the new East - West A19 link road.

The problem for Labour: Like the canary in the coal mine, the constituency level poll analyses consistently warned in the years leading up to the 2016 General Election that low levels of Labour support nationally would translate into very low seat levels for that party.

Places that had relied on industries such as coal - mining went from relative affluence and high employment into serious decline very quickly.

Regulations on the coal industry are driving massive layoffs and the shuttering of coal plants in Pennsylvania, injecting environmental issues into that state's hotly contested Senate race between incumbent Democrat Bob Casey Jr. and Republican challenger and coal mining executive Tom Smith.

You recently voted for repeal of a rule, existing federal rule that was aimed at preventing coal mining waste from being dumped into streams and rivers.

Coal - mining companies blast the peaks into the valleys and streams, which are filling with rubble and the corpses of trees.

According to GBI, China's increase in coal production will come with additional government consolidation of the mining industry into large production bases that can achieve greater efficiencies and production capacities of 90 percent by mid-decade.

Our findings show that the gaseous form of mercury — emitted by coal - burning, mining and other industrial processes in the industrialized world — is being lofted into the region from thousands of miles away.

Industrial processes such as small - scale gold mining and coal burning emit mercury into the atmosphere.

In other words, coal mining companies own the coal they extract but not the methane that mingles with it and is released into the atmosphere during production.

McMorris Rodgers would have the power to reverse Obama administration efforts to protect federally managed waters from oil and gas development as well as end the research into how coal mining affects the climate.

«Small - scale gold mining contributes to one third of the mercury released into the environment today,» says physicist Stephan Robinson of Green Cross Switzerland — Blacksmith's partner in the research and ranking — or nearly as much as coal burning by power plants.

A recent report released by the environmental law firm Earthjustice says 25 million tons of coal ash are dumped into American mines every year, threatening ground water.

Even though large amounts are released into the air by human activities such as coal burning, smelting, mining and waste incineration, mercury also occurs naturally in the environment, where it undergoes a complex chemical cycle.

What I'd like to know is, taking all of these factors into account, how much extra we, the consumers, will have to pay for a kilowatt - hour of coal - fired electricity 5, 10, 20 and 30 years from now (a point in time which even WV's own Nick Rahall says will be when the most productive coal seams have been mined out) because our leaders today decided to facilitate an increase in the consumption of coal through the laughably mis - named «climate bill.»

However, the stark reality is that global emissions have accelerated (Fig. 1) and new efforts are underway to massively expand fossil fuel extraction [7]--[9] by drilling to increasing ocean depths and into the Arctic, squeezing oil from tar sands and tar shale, hydro - fracking to expand extraction of natural gas, developing exploitation of methane hydrates, and mining of coal via mountaintop removal and mechanized long - wall mining.

Mercury has found its way into organic produce from the coal mine plumes that cover most of America.

single, no children, im a boss at coal river coal mines, love to find a sexy girl, im into sports, i allways lend a helping hand, im funny, easy to get along with, good in bed, and would make a good man for a god women.

A man tells a woman and another man that he and three other coal miners were in a mine waiting for radiation to dissipate above ground, when one of the miners «snapped» and tore two of the men to bloody shreds with his bare hands, killing them; the speaking man says he stared strongly into the mad man's eyes, making the killer turn around and leave the area, and he died three hours later.

When environmental lawyer Samantha (Kelly Noonan) returns to her childhood home to celebrate her coal - mining father George's (Jeff Fahey) retirement, some gentle ribbing by his coworkers prods her into volunteering to work with him in the mine on his last day.

In the opening sequences, Jimmy loses his coal mining job in West Virginia on a technicality, then promptly goes to Clyde's bar where he gets into a fight with an obnoxious racing team owner named Max Chilblain (an unrecognizable Seth MacFarlane, complete with long curly locks and a British accent).

He diversified into other industries, such as coal mining, to become a selfmade man.

Galuszka investigates the 2010 Upper Big Branch Mine disaster in this bracing inquiry into the corporate culture at Massey Energy and how the coal industry conquered a landscape's body and soul.

When Tommy falters at homesteading, the siblings look to the coal mines and Addie comes into close contact with one Chinese man in particular, Wing Lee.

Today, the city's main industries have shifted entirely away from coal - mining into other sectors such as manufacturing and health - care.

Their work eventually lead to historic preservation projects: through their photography and activism, the Bechers were able to contribute to the preservation of an Art Deco coal mine in Germany, which was eventually made into a national landmark.

During his visit, Cai Guo - Qiang followed the coal miners on their way 1040 meters below ground level and into the more than 1000 meters long tunnel of the mine.

The work of Gian Butturini and Frank Habicht show the euphoria of the Swinging Sixties and the anti-War movement, while Robert Frank's portrayal of life in London alongside the coal mining towns of South Wales in the early 1950s charts the rise of a British corporate culture and brings into sharp relief the relationship between wealth and poverty.

Prabhakr Pachpute, «The Farmer Turning into Coalminers» (left) and «Three men on the Donkey» (right), part of the site - specific installation «Canary in a Coal Mine II», 2013, charcoal on the wall.

Her family lived in Enugu, a former coal mining town, and she spent weekends and summers in her grandmother's rural village — images of which factor heavily into her paintings.

Both of these variables greatly limit the amount of methane which diffuses from the coal, into a shallow mine.

GE was eventually pressured into dropping the ad campaign after it received numerous complaints from coal mining families.»

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.

In what's become a depressingly predictable trend, the EPA's higher - ups have once again chosen to consciously ignore the better advice of their scientists and reverse a long - standing rule banning the dumping of coal mining debris into mountain streams.

And yes, the patriotic coal companies never seem to mention the despoilation of thousands of square miles of Appalachia with strip mines and millions of cubic yards of tailings dumped into streams and watersheds.