Sentences with phrase «like coal mines»

To call Steyer a hypocrite would mean Steyer was saying he is committed to fighting climate change, while behind the scenes still actively investing in things like coal mines.

Another group of rural voters are those who rely on extractive industries like coal mining, oil and gas drilling, and the like for their livelihood.

While coal may be a major culprit in global warming, there is no place like a coal mine for studying climate change in the past and its likely effects on our own world.

Not exact matches

Many of these nonbank institutions have financed risky infrastructure operations, like copper and coal mines or other poorly constructed buildings, by using a variety of unusual financial instruments, said Louis Lau, director of Brandes Investment Partners» investments group.

In a region where more than a 1,000 workers were recently laid - off from the coal mines, projects like this offer a much - needed economic boost that helps diversify the local economy and buffer, as the mayor of Tumbler Ridge said, the «devastating shocks» from the regular boom - bust cycle of the traditional resource sectors.

During the early years of the Industrial Revolution, they made it possible to move heavy goods, like coal, from mines to factories, using a fraction of the energy required by road transport.

«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.»

Barkun's explorations, like the canary in the coal mine, warn us of what may lie ahead.

To change our earlier analogy, today we are like men coming out of a coal mine who suddenly begin to hear the rock rumbling, but who have also begun to see a little square of light at the end of the tunnel.

Like a canary in a coal mine, red abalone is often used as an indicator of water quality because of its sensitivity to impurities.

I would just like to make the argument that right now, fly - ash production is limited to states that have coal - mining, but serves the entire nation.

«But when you watch Messi and Ronaldo who give their all in every single match I won't sit here and accept that someone plays football looking like he's down a coal mine.»

(The lunchboxes of older students look like they would suffice in a coal mine.

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.

«They are not like canaries down coal mines,» he says.

«It's really a tale of two markets,» he said, noting that as U.S. thermal coal prices soften, demand for high - grade metallurgical coal and some thermal coal has helped prop up U.S. coal mining activity in traditional high - volume regions like Appalachia and the Powder River Basin.

Like the proverbial canaries in a coal mine, many of the nation's farmers will be tested.

David Streets, a senior scientist who studies historic mercury emissions at the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois, said mercury emissions have gone down in the United States and Europe, but a rush in coal use in some fast - growing countries like China, and a resurgence of artisanal gold mining in places like Africa, is offsetting the reductions.

Doughty gathered coal samples from mines throughout the U.S.. By measuring the coal elemental concentrations, he found elements needed by plants, like phosphorus, were more abundant and much better distributed during the era of the dinosaurs than the Carboniferous.

Like thousands of others throughout the region who have seen their communities ravaged by the effects of mining, Gibson laughs at the notion of coal being clean or green.

Steve: The first part of the book, before you get to the case - by - case analysis of the threatened and endangered birds, the first part of the book is just like a traditional book, you can sit there and read it and it has various sections and one of them talks about birds, as you know, literally canaries in coal mines and the rest of the bird species out there as our canaries in the ecological coal mine that we are in.

«Ring - tailed lemurs are like the canary in a coal mine,» said Sauther, who co-directs the Beza Mahafaly Lemur Biology Project in southwestern Madagascar.

The results are much more divided when it comes to support for nonrenewable energy sources like offshore drilling (52 % oppose while 45 % are in favor of expansion in this area) and coal mining (57 % are opposed and 41 % are in favor of expansion).

The glands themselves look like miniature coal mines, each with a shaft leading down through the epidermis, the thickest layer of the skin, to a mazelike ball where sweat collects.

FOR people worried about the feminising effect of oestrogen - like chemicals in the water there is now a modern - day equivalent of the canary in the coal mine: a genetically modified fish in a bowl.

Like all TTX properties, Vermejo is especially rich in history, containing coal and gold mining settlements, adobe ruins, petroglyphs, artifacts and abandoned charcoal ovens.

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.»

Some industries (like those connected to mining, coal, wood preservation, and pesticides) pollute the environment with inorganic arsenic.

But in parallel play, it also brought in a self - proclaimed «law and order» president and cabinet who are fixated on mining earth - based resources (Virgo) like coal and oil at the expense of water (Pisces).

But that they're not even getting made feels like the canary in the studio's conformist, cartoon - superhero coal mine.

The river banks in Sunderland here were once home to shipyards, but like the city's coal mines, they disappeared.

Slim pickings this year make Cannes feel like the canary in the coal mine.

Set amongst the deadly coal mine fires of 1960s Pennsylvania, The Hollow Ground is an extraordinary debut that will «grab you by the brisket and not let go» (Gary Shteyngart) «We walk on fire or air, so Daddy liked to say.

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

Facts about her family - a homesteader whose name was Bonnycastle, like the Reverend in the novel, and a grandfather who was a coal mine operator in Edmonton - appear in the novel.

I'd say places like Omaha and Des Moines and Sioux Falls and Kansas City are the opposite of the canary in the coal mine.

In some ways, ten - year Treasuries are like the proverbial canary in the coal mine, being the first to sense a hazard.

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.

Yes, there are a few nooks and crannies that are neglected, like Russia and Brazil, industries that are deeply out of favor like gold, oil E&P, coal, mining, etc., but you have to hold your nose and take reputational risk to buy them.

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.

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.

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.

Like many others their farm house named Etzweiler was destroyed by coal mining.

China's industrial growth hinges on burning coal from mines like this one in Shenmu, Shaanxi Province, behind a village store.

Like canaries in a coal mine, these early - warning radar stations are in fact giving us another kind of early warning.

Mountaintop coal mining is permanently destroying thousands of miles of rivers, lakes and streams in states like West Virginia.

The upward trend is still readily apparent, and in fact this reflects the warming trend rather nicely, although it be more pronounced here, like the canary in the coal mine.

(Don't take that as good news, because it has correspondingly lower energy content so you burn more of it as compared to higher carbon coal like Anthracite; Powder River coal is mined largely because of its low sulfur content).

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.

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