Sentences with phrase «life in the coal mines»

BP has joined in a partnership with Synthetic Genomics to sequence genomes from microbes that live in coal mines and oil wells.

His father suffered the gruelling harshness of a miner's life in the coal mines of South Wales, and the young Prendergast lived in constant fear for his father's health and safety.

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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.

Then the cactus dies, making it the canary that reveals they're living in a supernatural coal mine that's taken a turn for the toxic.

This Best Picture winner is an account of early 20th - century life with a hard - working, fun - loving family in a Welsh coal - mining village, where they deal with love, death, union strikes and bullying.

Language: Korean Genre: Drama MPAA rating: NR Director: Tae - gyun Kim Actors: In - Pyo Cha, In - gi Jeong, Shin Myeong - Cheol Plot: Yong - soo is an ex-soccer player who lives in a small coal mine village in North Korea with his critically ill, pregnant wife and young son, JooIn - Pyo Cha, In - gi Jeong, Shin Myeong - Cheol Plot: Yong - soo is an ex-soccer player who lives in a small coal mine village in North Korea with his critically ill, pregnant wife and young son, JooIn - gi Jeong, Shin Myeong - Cheol Plot: Yong - soo is an ex-soccer player who lives in a small coal mine village in North Korea with his critically ill, pregnant wife and young son, Jooin a small coal mine village in North Korea with his critically ill, pregnant wife and young son, Jooin North Korea with his critically ill, pregnant wife and young son, Joon.

Working in the coal mines is an inescapable way of life in this small town.

Little Accidents / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Sara Colangelo)-- In a small American coal town living in the shadow of a recent mining accident, the disappearance of a teenage boy draws three people together — a surviving miner, the lonely wife of a mine executive, and a local boy — in a web of secretIn a small American coal town living in the shadow of a recent mining accident, the disappearance of a teenage boy draws three people together — a surviving miner, the lonely wife of a mine executive, and a local boy — in a web of secretin the shadow of a recent mining accident, the disappearance of a teenage boy draws three people together — a surviving miner, the lonely wife of a mine executive, and a local boy — in a web of secretin a web of secrets.

Whilst the symptoms don't match carbon monoxide poisoning; I will mention that if you have a wood burning stove, ensure that it is serviced annually to ensure you aren't putting your life at risk, a small dog can be like a canary in a coal mine as they are more adversely affected by small amount of carbon monoxide than humans.

Your videos often document a struggle for survival against extreme circumstances, from living in the uninhabited deserts of China, to working in a dangerous Arctic coal mine miles beneath the earth's surface.

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.

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.

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.

Imagine a man or woman being so arrogant, and selfish, that they'd take a job driving a CO2 belching truck, or dig for coal in a mine, or fish for salmon in the ocean, or fly a CO2 belching airliner, or flip beef patties that came from CH4 exhausting cows, or teaching a classroom of students all of whom belch CO2 and exhaust CH4 and whom will have offspring that produces even more of those evil gases, or working as a climate scientist in an office heated by CO2 belching FFs and occasionally traveling around the world by CO2 belching airliner — all the while using computers made from FFs and powered by CO2 belching FF power plants, or working as a Senator from Tennessee who was President of the USA for a few hours and who travels all over the world in CO2 belching airliners, or one of the millions of people who mine, process, manufacture and transport every product you have ever seen in your life and all the ones you haven't seen as well.

Lots of images: Russian roulette, elephant in the living room that everyone is ignoring, 800 pound gorilla in the room that nobody is paying attention to, canary in the coal mine (Arctic ice melting rapidly year by year now), a train wreck in slow motion, the list goes on and on.

But a coal car crushed the life from me In the darkness of that mine, In the darkness of that mine.

Grassroots groups, such as ICKD (Iskenderun Environmental Protection Association), Adana CETKO (Environmental Protection Association), and East Mediterranean Environmental Platform have been struggling against coal power plants, mines and other coal infrastructure to protect rights to live in a healthy environment has been going on since mid-90s.

«You're essentially condemning a lot of unemployed people to a much lower standard of living since in these [coal - producing] regions there are no readily available jobs that can offer salaries that compete with a coal mine,» he added.

Researchers, some of whom are using our data, are beginning to draw troubling connections between coal mining and the health of people living in communities near those operations.

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.

Simple math and these real life scenarios, tell us that in order to replace the one coal - fueled power plant (which is built right next to the coal mine that provides an abundant supply) with the planned industrial solar parks would require 1482 of the arrays — which would cover 74,100 acres.

Amber Whittington, who lives in the heart of Appalachia's coal country, is one of many who are working to end mountaintop removal mining.

Statistics on the health of residents living in Appalachia where surface coal mining occurs are not a pretty picture.

I'm interested because I live in a province where the energy source of choice has always been coal (we mine it here) and wind or tidal seem to be too expensive.

Yet as cruel as coal mining could be, over time it helped liberate humans from agricultural drudgery, increase productivity, raise living standards, and, at least in developed nations, reduce reliance on wood for fuel, allowing reforestation and the return of wildlife.

As Wendy explained how the coal mines have decimated the underground water supply, vital to the agriculture, viniculture, and animal husbandry in Hunter Valley, Wendy told me, «Water is life.»

About 3,000 people lost their lives mining coal in China alone last year.

Founded in 1887, Provident Life and Accident Insurance Company provided accident insurance for «uninsurable» workers in the sawmills and coal mines around Chattanooga, Tennessee.

1,137 mine workers have lost their lives in 919 coal mine accidents according to figures compiled by DGMS between 2001 and 2011.

A risky occupation like working in the mining industry, coal mines, serving in the armed forces, etc. involves the risk of life.

The Hazelwood coal mine fire that has been burning in Victoria's Latrobe Valley since February 9 is raising major public health issues for those living in and near the town of Morwell....