Sentences with phrase «near coal mines»

She continues to be an advocate for the community's health and environment, and has worked with the local health department to place air monitors near coal mines.

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

On another of their flights, a very strong gas anomaly showed up near a well pad that was also near a coal mine.

Workers sort coal on a conveyer belt, near a coal mine at Datong, in China's northern Shanxi province.

Not exact matches

The temporary foreign worker program was first under fire in the fall of 2012, when it came to light that approval was granted to Chinese - owned HD Mining International to bring more than 200 people from China to work at its coal mine near Tumbler Ridge, B.C.

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.

Canadian mining giant Teck Resources, for instance, recently shelved plans to revive its Quintette coal mine, while Walter Energy decided to close its Wolverine mine near Tumbler Ridge, B.C.

ALLETE is the corporate parent of BNI Energy, which owns and operates BNI Coal, LTD., a lignite mine near Center, North Dakota.

The rule maintains a long - established 100 - foot buffer zone that blocks coal mining near streams, but imposes stricter guidelines for exceptions to the 100 - foot rule.

Rep. John Yarmuth, D - Ky., displayed a bottle of brownish water he said came from a constituent's well near a surface coal mine.

Appalachia's economy is a predominantly combination of near subsistence farming, coal mining, and small factories.

If a coal - burning power plant has several choices in buying coal from many nearby mines, it can easily avoid contract disputes with its nearest coal supplier by reaching out to alternative mines.

If coal mining emitted anywhere near that level it would dwarf all other sources of methane and atmospheric levels would be much higher (easily 5 ppm, maybe higher).

Pennsylvania will soon see the opening of the Acosta Deep Mine near Somerset, Penn., which will produce 375,000 tons of metallurgical coal annually and employ 70 workers, according to the Associated Press.

Workers at Ekulu coal mine in 1959, near Enugu, Nigeria.

Surface mining, used when when the ore is near the surface, can recover nearly 90 % of the coal in a deposit.

Photographs depict Nara's visit to historic Japanese sites across the island, including the Kurei reindeer festival near the Dimauz river, the Otas Forest in Poronaisk, and the former Oji Paper Company, Kawakami coal mine, and Ainu village.

If coal mining emitted anywhere near that level it would dwarf all other sources of methane and atmospheric levels would be much higher (easily 5 ppm, maybe higher).

This peer - reviewed study by a pair of researchers at Rice University in Houston shows that while fracking - produced water shouldn't be allowed near drinking water, it's less toxic than similar waste from coal - bed methane mining.

The authors noted the presence of sources of coalbed methane — a common peril in coal mines throughout the history of coal mining — near the methane hot spots they found (the supplementary information is here).

The presidents welcomed: (i) a grant from the U.S. Trade and Development Agency to the China Power Engineering and Consulting Group Corporation to support a feasibility study for an integrated gasification combined cycle (I.G.C.C.) power plant in China using American technology, (ii) an agreement by Missouri - based Peabody Energy to invest and participate in GreenGen, a project of several major Chinese energy companies to develop a near - zero emissions coal - fired power plant, (iii) an agreement between G.E. and Shenhua Corporation to collaborate on the development and deployment of I.G.C.C. and other clean coal technologies; and (iv) an agreement between AES and Songzao Coal and Electric Company to use methane captured from a coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissicoal - fired power plant, (iii) an agreement between G.E. and Shenhua Corporation to collaborate on the development and deployment of I.G.C.C. and other clean coal technologies; and (iv) an agreement between AES and Songzao Coal and Electric Company to use methane captured from a coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissicoal technologies; and (iv) an agreement between AES and Songzao Coal and Electric Company to use methane captured from a coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissiCoal and Electric Company to use methane captured from a coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissicoal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Since The Last Mountain's release, new research has documented higher rates of poverty, illness and early death in communities near mountaintop removal mining sites while evidence continues to pour in about the toll that coal emissions take on public health.

But the Bank has run up against a determined international resistance to its most controversial project to date — a pair of coal mega mine and export terminals that would ship millions of tons of coal through the Great Barrier Reef near Australia.

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management says the coal is located about 10 miles south - southeast of Gillette near the Belle Ayr Mine and Caballo Mine.

[64][65] The two companies will collaborate on building coal gasification plants near Peabody's mines in the Powder River Basin.

In January 2011, Peabody Energy announced two partnerships with Chinese energy companies to build coal mines near newly planned power plants in China.

Defines: (1) «renewable electricity» as electricity generated from a renewable energy resource or other qualifying energy resources; (2) «renewable energy resource» as wind, solar, and geothermal energy, renewable biomass, biogas and biofuels derived exclusively from renewable biomass, qualified hydropower, and marine and hydrokinetic renewable energy; and (3) «other qualifying energy resource» as landfill gas, wastewater treatment gas, coal mine methane used to generate electricity at or near the mine mouth, and qualified waste - to - energy.

«From their near - term peak of 93,700 in the fourth quarter of 2011, average coal mine employment has dropped 17.1 percent at the end of 2013,» industry analysts at SNL Energy reported on Friday.

It seems that the Heartland Farmers are happy to have incompetently run coal mines with their illness - causing pollution and greenhouse gasses in Australia — so long as they are somewhere else — but they are dead - set against wind turbines near them that will harm no one.

While this is a small number compared with the number of jobs that have been lost due to the war on coal, it is important to the communities located near the mine.

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.

The coal - fired power station near the mine then transmits the electricity by a 740 - kilometer HVDC cable to Jiangsu.

Consider, for example, Cerrejón, an immense set of open pit coal mines in northern Colombia near the Caribbean coast.

These include the ones initiated just this week that call for coal companies to mitigate and even eliminate water contamination near mines.

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.

After nearly two hours of arguments from the coal industry and its political friends, Bo and Maria spoke from the heart, revealing what it's really like to live near mountaintop removal mining.

HSBC, Europe's biggest bank, and Deutsche Bank, Germany's biggest, have stated that they were not interested in financing any coal mines that would export from ports near Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

According to the BBC, near the start of the film, Chai interviews a six year old girl in the coal - mining province of Shanxi, one of the most polluted places on earth.

Our interactive health mapping feature shows how residents living near mountaintop removal coal mining suffer higher cancer rates and have shorter life spans than other citizens.

(5) Whenever, before or during the drilling of a well not within the boundaries of an operating coal mine, the well operator encounters conditions of a nature which renders drilling of the bore hole or a portion thereof impossible, or more hazardous than usual, the well operator, upon verbal notice to the department, may immediately plug all or part of the bore hole, if drilling has occurred, and commence a new bore hole not more than 50 feet from the old bore hole if the location of the new bore hole does not violate section 3215 (relating to well location restrictions) and, in the case of a well subject to act of July 25, 1961 (P.L. 825, No. 359), known as the Oil and Gas Conservation Law, if the new location complies with existing laws, regulations and spacing orders and the new bore hole is at least 330 feet from the nearest lease boundary.

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....