Sentences with phrase «mining coal»

Since then, cheap natural gas and shallow, easy - to - mine coal burned in traditional power plants have prevented the technique from taking off.

We have to find more environmentally sound ways of mining coal than simply blowing the tops off mountains.

«And we all know what the greatest contribution to climate change is: that's mining coal for export.»

Production growth has stalled before in the 1990s, but this time I suspect that a production limit has been reached and it is easier now for China to import surface mined coal from Indonesia and Australia.

It's not by accident that her favoured LNG proponent says it will build with up to 70 per cent foreign workers and the only people mining coal in northeast BC are temporary foreign workers.

I believe that deep coal mines were shut because they could not compete with natural gas or surface mined coal from S Africa and Australia.

Not to mention the devastation caused by mining coal, whether you burn it «cleanly» or not.

It also emits more CO2 than coal plants and to this writer it seems strange that the UK will look to North and South America to supply them with biomass fuel that requires processing and shipment thousands of miles, when they (Drax) could use locally mined coal to generate power.

The businesses drilling for oil and gas and mining coal enjoy effectively lower income tax rates than other American businesses because of an array of favorable provisions in the US tax code.

She also thanked coal workers «who mined the coal that created the industrial revolution that turned on the lights that fueled the factories, who lost their lives, who were grievously injured, who developed black lung disease.»

But he also measured all the infrastructural greenhouse gas emissions that support the product's fabrication; for example, the amount of carbon dioxide emitted while mining the coal, treating it and transporting it to the power plant.

The first one of these is the act of mining coal just outside your spacecraft where you need to break apart rocks and find three pieces of coal in order to continue to power the ship.

Worried that Britain's supplies of easily mined coal would be exhausted, Jevons suggested that Britain prepare for coming fuel shortages by (in Tainter's words) «using the coal - given prosperity for posterity and for a sort of soft landing at coal's limits.»

The emissions from coal power plants inflict billions of dollars of health problems and while in the U.S., 47 coal workers died mining coal in 2006, China suffered 100 times as many fatalities — 4,746 in total.

Leakage rates from well sites can be so prolific that they make the impact of methane drilling and fracking as dirty as mining coal in terms of greenhouse gas emissions.

Even if Britain's considerable opencast and deep mine coal resources are not to be extensively worked under the existing planning regime, it is important that they should be kept available to facilitate any future change in policy which might favour their exploitation.

Mining, transportation, and combustion of coal contribute to poor air quality and respiratory disease, while the risky nature of mining coal results in death and injury for workers.»

The answer lies in whether the University of Kentucky, Virginia Tech and West Virginia University, working with federal energy laboratories, a few coal companies and large manufacturers, can identify ways and locations to economically extract and process rare earth elements from the waste streams left over from mining coal throughout Appalachia and Western Kentucky.

That is the period expected by the Interior Department according to a press release announcing the Wyoming coal lease sales, which stated that «revenue estimates are based on the future price of mined coal between 2015 and 2030.»

There is no gobal warming If we stop mining our coal I think it would be a national security issue, Coal helps produce many things like Steel and Lime for starters, that requires high btu coal to make, and nothing that I know of can burn as hot as coal.

Coal companies are targeting Northwest ports as the gateway for coal terminals that would ship up to 100 million metric tons of strip - mined coal abroad.

Refuse mine: A surface mine where coal is recovered from previously mined coal.

And historically, a lot more people have been killed per ton mining coal in Appalachia.

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

After all, there are plenty of vocations that harm either the environment or workers, like mining coal, construction, almost anything involving firearms — but they all have effective lobbyists labeling any attempt to rein them in as «job killers.»

Foley Hoag has once again secured a victory for Venezuela in claims arising out of a coal supply agreement between Nova Scotia Power Inc. (NSPI), a Canadian power company, and Guasare Coal International (now Carbozulia International), the foreign marketing arm of a mixed foreign Venezuelan entity mining coal in Zulia, Venezuela.

It may be that aspects of an advertising - based business model are indeed incompatible with ethically serving users, as polluted streams are incompatible with ethically mining coal.

For all its green bona fides, the province has been mining coal for more than 100 years and exporting it for more than 40.

And even if you stomp your feet hard enough and get your way and all coal mining is eliminated, then the people of rural China and India will not receive electric power from central power plants and will burn locally mined coal and wood in their homes causing horrific air pollution and deforestation.

Another mine was mining coal from under the ocean.

The idea would also eliminate the need for strip mining, which is environmentally harmful, or carbon intensive shipping of mined coal.

Ralph Hillman, executive director the Australian Coal Association (ACA), responded by saying that in any case, the emissions from domestically - mined coal in Australia made only a «tiny» contribution to world emissions of greenhouse gases.

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.

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

Gangs of Wasseypur, begins with Shahid Khan who, after being thrown out of his village, finds himself working as a hired muscle for Ramadhir Singh, an industrialist who has made a fortune out of mining coal.

And that's not counting the CO2 emitted mining the coal and transporting it.

Industries that burn and / or mine coal should have maximum incentive to quickly develop ways to clean carbon dioxide from emissions.

Both corporations and government entities are involved in mining coal and generating power from that coal.

Extracting natural gas from the Marcellus Shale could do more to aggravate global warming than mining coal, according to a Cornell study published in the May issue of Climatic Change Letters (105:5).