Sentences with phrase «largest coal mines»

And of all unlikely suitors, Greenpeace piped up to purchase one of Europe's largest coal mines, along with its associated power plants.

Ramesh Agrawal, an Indian right to information activist, successfully shut down one of the largest coal mines in his region.

If developed, the Otter Creek strip mine would be one of the largest coal mines in the country.

The federal leases would expand the existing Caballo and Belle Ayr strip mines, already the sixth and ninth largest coal mines in the U.S., respectively.

By comparison, the country's largest coal mines produce more than 100 million tons of coal each year.

ROUNDUP By Aaron Chaze The other black gold: Coal India sparks investor frenzy Coal India, the world's largest coal mining company and one of the Indian government's mega disinvestments, became the largest IPO ever in India and one...

Exxon has reported to its shareholders that «what may become the world's largest coal mine is being developed in Colombia and a new oil discovery is the biggest there in 18 years.»

The Office of Water Science is leading the Australian Government's efforts to improve our understanding of the water - related impacts of coal seam gas and large coal mining development.

The Independent Expert Scientific Committee on Coal Seam Gas and Large Coal Mining Development (the IESC) provides scientific advice to decision makers on the impact that coal seam gas and large coal mining development may have on Australia's water resources.

It is the largest coal mine methane - to - electricity proejct in the U.S. by a factor of 20 — there is a 150 kilowatt project in Pennsylvania also operated by Vessels.

And now the lowlife narcissistic psychopaths (like the IPA and Dr John Nicol mentioned above) want to build the worlds largest coal mine ever in QLD while destroying the GBR and existing top grade farmlands and destroying the underground water supply permanently.

It was reported in July 2011 that Peabody would pursue a large coal mine project in China's western Xinjiang region in partnership with the local provincial government.

Developers know that time is running out for the development of large coal mines because they sense that the tide is turning in the market.

Ebell, whose work has been funded by some of the nation's worst polluters, like Murray Energy, the nation's largest coal mining company, said, «I would like to have more funding [from big coal] so that I can combat the nonsense put out by the environmental movement.»

This brings us to why the Guardian omitted the FOI requesters... Their divestment campaign now in full swing, it would be a foolish time to admit to the world that there is something hypocritical about campaigning to «Keep it in the Ground «at the same time as being sponsored by the third largest coal mining interest in the world.

According to a new analysis by The Guardian, Peabody Energy, the U.S.'s largest coal mining company, has been funding dozens of different climate change - denying organizations for years.

Client is the largest coal mining company in North America.

Not exact matches

Businesses large and small have been making the case that they can't afford paying more for labour going back to when laws were first proposed to curb the use of seven year - olds in coal mines or put an end to 16 - hour workdays.

«To simultaneously promote Adani's coal mine, which would be one of the world's largest, pretending to care about the world's largest Reef is an acrobatic feat only cynical politicians would attempt,» he said.

Wyoming, with rich reserves of low - sulfur coal near the surface, is the largest coal - producing - state and has the most coal still in the ground at producing mines.

Teck Resources (NYSE: TECK) is Canada's largest diversified resources company and currently mines steelmaking coal, copper, and zinc.

During his career, he has been Operations Executive at Zimasco in Zimbabwe, one of Africa's largest integrated ferrochrome producer, Head of Training and Development at the Hwange Colliery, Zimbabwe's largest coal producer and Head of HR at LionOre Mining's Africa division, until its acquisition by Norilsk Nickel.

One feature hindering investment in both the NSW and Queensland coal industries is the fragmented ownership of the supply - chain assets; a large number of mines share mostly state - government - owned rail and port infrastructure.

The power plant is one of the largest employers in Colstrip and is located near a coal mine, which supplies it with fuel.

In Black Mesa, Arizona, the proposal to construct six large, coal - burning electric plants and three strip mines meant that the health risks of air and water pollution would be suffered by a predominantly native American population, but the power generated would be distributed to distant urban areas.

Coal from the mine — which will be the largest in Australia — will be shipped to power stations in India.

«This is the canary in the coal mine,» says Shanna H. Swan, a study co-author at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, «because it has large economic implications about men's fertility and health.»

This past April, RAN teamed up for the second year in a row with another leading non-profit green group concerned about MTR, the Sierra Club, in publishing a «report card» reviewing 10 of the world's largest banks in regard to their financing of MTR coal mining projects.

This merger created the largest single MTR company in the country, now responsible for some 25 percent of coal production from MTR mines.

Coal ash is the second largest source of industrial waste in the country, after mining, according to a joint report from the nonprofit environment law organization, Earthjustice, and the Physicians for Social Responsibility.

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.

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.

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

In every direction, in the coal fields northwest of Brisbane, the world's largest producers are preparing to expand their mines, rails and ports so they can ship billions of tons of coal to East Asia and India.

The analysis found that at its peak, the blowout doubled the rate of methane emissions from the entire Los Angeles basin and temporarily created the largest known human - caused point source of methane in the United States, twice as large as the next - largest source, an Alabama coal mine.

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.

In the US, the world's second largest coal user, the volume of mined coal is increasing while the total energy content is decreasing.

A screenshot of the Bureau of Land Management's home page displays a photo of a «large coal seam at the Peabody North Antelope Rochelle Mine in Wyoming.»

The demise of the Borders chain seemed like the canary — or perhaps a significantly larger bird, like an emu — in the coal mine.

Although there has been a variety of writers and talkers like myself who have talked about «canaries in the coal mines» — high yield bonds, small caps, commodities, foreign / emerging stocks — the discussions are largely dismissed when U.S. large - caps turn upward.

Coal mines are its largest end market typically accounting for 70 % + of annual sales.

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.

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

This really large brown coal mine works as an open cut mine and the commodity is transported daily to Port Augusta by rail twice a day and is solely used for producing electricity.

So the black gold from the mines is at the centre of this exhibition of large - scale installations and sculptures: The deep black of coal, its shimmering surface and tactile qualities were used as aesthetic resources by artists such as Marcel Broodthaers, David Hammons, Reiner Ruthenbeck, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, Bernar Venet or the ZERO group.

The project coincides with the end of the 30 - year anniversary of the UK miners» strike and an ongoing collaboration with the National Coal Mining Museum to give a poetic and historical response to an industry which still figures large in the cultural memory of the region.

Water towers, blast furnaces, gas tanks, coal mine tipples, and grain elevators — each of their photographs isolates a large structure and describes it with the frontality and exactitude of an engineer's diagram.

The local area they identify as anomalous has a number of coal mining operations, also a potentially large source of methane.

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?

This month,... my business inked a deal to capture methane vented from a coal mine — one of the largest point sources greenhouse gases in Colorado — to make electricity.