Sentences with phrase «mining coal results»

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.»

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The drop was somewhat surprising given that Teck more than quadrupled its adjusted earnings during the quarter, riding strong operating results for its steelmaking coal segment as well as record zinc production at its Antamina mine in Peru.

By now, 500 mountains have been blown up and over 2,000 miles of streams have been buried as a result of mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining.

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).

My encounter with the miners and their families resulted in a 51 - piece series of photolithographs, with hand - written cursive texts that I wrote in French detailing their oral histories, memories, work, and labor in the coal mines.

The sweeping strokes and rapid brushwork of both impastoed and diluted paint are the result of considerable thought, and include numerous figural references to a variety of imagery including bridges, tunnels and coal - mining equipment, as well as calligraphy.

Because switching from coal to cleaner and more affordable energy would result in less coal mined, less coal burned, and less carbon pollution emitted, BLM's decisions do have a climate impact — and a big one at that.

All and all have there not been less injuries associated with nuclear energy than those resulting from coal mining and exposure to air contaminants from burning coal?

Such leaks from coal mines and gas drilling sites are on the rise as a result of the shale gas boom in the US.

Currently, as soon as one proposed new coal mine, gasfield, or oil well is successfully stopped as a result of community opposition based around local environmental impacts or other non-climate reasons, another similar proposal nearby or elsewhere takes its place.more...

This myth is easily debunked and is a clear result of motivated reasoning sponsored by the National Mining Association and Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity http://www.tech-pundit.com/category/articles/

In the last two years coal mining in Ukraine has decreased almost twofold, resulting in a downturn of the country's carbon emissions.

Each new coal seam that is opened up in the hundred thousand coal mines in the world is the result of an independent economic decision with inputs from a small group of mining engineers, mine managers, bankers, and owner representatives.

The Ex-Im-funded Sasan coal plant and mine in India have resulted in serious environmental harms and the deaths of at least 19 workers due to unsafe working conditions, with a recently disclosed project monitoring report showing six potential additional deaths.

The rise is very probably a blip, resulting from miscalculations by Chinese officials in 2017 over the pace of coal mine shutdowns and an unexpected surge in electricity demand.

Earth 2 will be still be using coal and petroleum in 2050, with resulting air quality health impacts and devastated environment from mining and spills.

If the Grand Canyon had been the result of coal mining, he says, «Al Gore would say, «This is horrible.»»

Analysts say this is the first time Beijing has put a ban on the opening of new mines: the move has been prompted both by falling demand for coal as a result of a slowing economy and by increasing public concern about hazardous levels of pollution, which have blanketed many cities across the country over recent months.

Although subbituminous coal has the second lowest energy content, large quantities are found in thick beds near the surface, resulting in low mining cost and, correspondingly, lower prices.

Disruptions in the global coal supply chain from natural disasters, such as typhoons and flooding in Australia's key coal mining region, have resulted in higher demand for U.S. coal worldwide.

The cost of transporting a 300 tonnes of water with every thousand tonnes of (wet) coal the 250 km from the mine to the power station (in the case of coal mined at Leigh Creek and burned at Port Augusta) must be very high, but I would think that it would be insignificant compared to the energy loss resulting from burning wet coal.

Independent modelling commissioned by the Australian Coal Association warns that the number of early mine closures could reach 18 within nine years and result in Australia forgoing coal sales of $ 22 billion from existing mines over the next decCoal Association warns that the number of early mine closures could reach 18 within nine years and result in Australia forgoing coal sales of $ 22 billion from existing mines over the next deccoal sales of $ 22 billion from existing mines over the next decade.

Because the vast majority (96.5 %) of this coal is from mines in Wyoming, these average results will most closely reflect those coal leases, which are sub-bituminous coal, with relatively low BTU values between 8501 and 9011, and as noted above, expected by the Interior Department to be mined between 2015 and 2030.

«Creating a loophole for Arch Coal's mines could result in up to half a billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions, more than the annual emissions of one hundred thousand cars.

Similarly, Stilley deflected attention away from the notion of permanent ecosystem damage as a result of coal mining.

And today's highly mature energy markets are the result of decades of subsidies for coal mining and oil drilling.

For example, even though Trump has vowed to bring back coal mining jobs, the coal extraction industry is on its last breaths, primarily as a result of energy market forces.

Those costs come from increased health care costs, deaths and injuries that result from mining and transporting coal, and the emissions generated during the coal's combustion.

Economy vs. Environment: We've Heard This Before The debate that has surfaced in Nunavut is not unlike ongoing debates elsewhere regarding the development of coal, oil, and natural gas: Some Inuit argue in favor of the economic development that would result from mining, while others worry about the environmental consequences.

The resulting large - format book, Energy: Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless Growth explores the impacts of the global energy economy: from oil spills and mountaintop - removal coal mining to oversized wind farms and desert - destroying solar power plants.

Although carbon - capture equipment reduces 85 - 90 percent of the carbon exhaust from a coal - fired power plant, it has no impact on the carbon resulting from the mining or transport of the coal or on the exhaust of other air pollutants.

Surface mining has also become a dominant driver of land - use change and water pollution in certain regions of the world, where mountaintop removal, coal and tar sands exploitation, and other open pit mining methods strip land surfaces of forests and topsoils, produce vast quantities of toxic sludge and solid waste, and often fill valleys, rivers, and streams with the resulting waste and debris [81].

However, the technology is extremely expensive, and even if the carbon can be sequestered, the coal - fired plant will still result in destructive coal mining as well as toxic coal ash as a byproduct.

Epidemiologists have linked the new wave of black lung cases to breathing in more silica dust, likely the result of a long - term shift to mining thinner seams of coal.

Advising Celtic Energy Limited in dispute over leasehold and aftercare issues relating to open - case coal mines resulting in series of negotiated settlement documents.

Gareth Morgan is a market leader for mining compensation claims as a result of numerous successes against the Coal Board for a number of conditions including deafness, respiratory disease and vibration white finger.

To follow common or related issues of fact or law in respect of the alledged liability of the National Coal Board and / or British Coal Corporation (NCB / BCC) their successors the Department for Trade & Industry (DTI) for chronic knee injury suffered by their employees as a result of underground work in mines between 1949 and 1994, where chronic knee injury means diabling symptoms of the knee joint (s) resulting from damage to the menisci and / or osteoarthritis, but does not include bursitis.

This certainly seems to stop any moves to extend the consultation requirement back into that «strategic or commercial decision», unless of course it is a «closure» case where UK law may now be in advance of EC law as a result of the decision of the EAT in UK Coal Mining Ltd v NUM [2008] IRLR 4.

As a result of the recent full or partial exits by a number of major mining companies from the Australian coal industry, a number of minority participants have also considered how the sell part or all of their interest.

As a result, Kentucky's leading employers include food processing firms, many coal mining companies and several local firms which cater to the horse racing industry.

For the countries that mainly use coal - fired power facilities as a source of energy, the high energy consumption of Bitcoin mining results in high carbon footprint, which is damaging to the environment.