Sentences with phrase «of coal mining at»

In our latest Q&A, 2017 Prize winner Wendy Bowman shares about her work with the Hunter Environment Lobby in her fight against the expansion of coal mining at her farm,... Read More

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.

Not exact matches

This crackdown is partly due to a string of recent, highly - publicized disasters including the West Virginia coal mine explosion, an oil rig south of Louisiana that blew up, and a fire at a Washington State oil refinery.

Only a handful were natural seeps from underground formations, and one was a vent from a coal mine, according to researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the California Institute of Technology.

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.

Coal that's mined in Wyoming's prolific Powder River Basin has the same atmospheric impact whether it's burned at home or in a power plant outside of Shanghai.

But the miner reduced coal guidance from its Illawarra metallurgical coal business by 9 per cent to 4.1 million tonnes, as it continues to work to fix a series of issues at its Appin mine.

During his career, he has been Operations Executive at Zimasco in Zimbabwe, one of Africa's largest integrated ferrochrome producer, Head of Training and Development at the Hwange Colliery, Zimbabwe's largest coal producer and Head of HR at LionOre Mining's Africa division, until its acquisition by Norilsk Nickel.

Cele notes that, «the demand from China for iron - ore continues to grow, but at a declining pace, further exacerbating pricing pressure,» meaning that Vale's considerable investment in nickel, coal, fertilisers and copper will only partially mitigate the impact of the increase in iron - ore mining capacity globally on the company.

We're at the bottom of the pack and almost every other week another coal mine or forest product mill is laying off workers, eliminating shifts or closing down altogether.

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BHP Billiton said on Thursday jobs could go at its Australian coal mines as the company faces a deteriorating market, the latest sign of global miners scaling back operations due to slowing industrial activity in China.

Avista owns a 15 - per - cent - stake in two of the four units at the Colstrip plant in Montana — a major coal - mining state — and plans to use them for electricity production until 2035, said a spokesperson for the company that also operates hydroelectric dams, natural gas and biomass generating plants and wind turbines.

U.S. coal production hit its lowest level in 40 years in 2016, and the size of the coal mining work force has been cut nearly in half, to stand at just 77,000 workers (roughly the employee size of Delta Airlines or Whole Foods), spread out over a few dozen companies.

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.

A Fair Work Commission decision to scrap a workplace agreement at a NSW coal terminal sends ripples through the mining industry, with the issue of workers» entitlements tipped to become an election issue.

«Theresa May can wring her hands at the inequality that scars our country,» he told an audience on site of the former Orgreave coal mine in Rotherham, south Yorkshire, today.

Chris Huhne, the Lib Dem Energy Secretary, may have been playing the role of canary in the coalition coal mine when he warned on 30 May that Tory backtracking on the CGT proposal would be akinto pulling «at that little piece of string, and you find that all the rest of the woolly jumper is unraveling».

You recently voted for repeal of a rule, existing federal rule that was aimed at preventing coal mining waste from being dumped into streams and rivers.

If Rockland County is the «canary in the coal mine» for the rest of the country, then at this rate the canary isn't going to make it.

«These significant alterations are likely to lead to saltier and more perennial streamflows throughout Appalachia, where at least 7 percent of the land has already been disturbed by mountaintop - removal mining,» says Nippgen, who notes that mountaintop removal is not part of Wyoming's coal industry.

Mountaintop - removal coal mining causes many streams and rivers in Appalachia to run consistently saltier for up to 80 percent of the year, a new study by researchers at the University of Wyoming and Duke University finds.

At the moment, no one else is likely to see it either: The mine, now empty of coal, is closed.

That's what Richard Reavey, vice president of public affairs of Cloud Peak Energy Inc., a major coal miner in the western United States, appears to have done on June 29, 2015, when he presented a 24 - page slideshow at an industry conference organized by the Rocky Mountain Coal Mining Institute in Snowmass, Cocoal miner in the western United States, appears to have done on June 29, 2015, when he presented a 24 - page slideshow at an industry conference organized by the Rocky Mountain Coal Mining Institute in Snowmass, CoCoal Mining Institute in Snowmass, Colo..

«This is the canary in the coal mine,» says Shanna H. Swan, a study co-author at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, «because it has large economic implications about men's fertility and health.»

Even without the environmental drive, new railways from mines to ports, falling investment in coal - fired generation and slowing power demand growth could see China's miners export some of their surplus output at competitive prices, hitting regional miners and the viability of new projects.

Host Yul Kwon, a former telecommunications attorney and winner of the Survivor 2006 season, guides viewers on a sweeping tour of the nation that has them flying over California's largest reservoir (at left), descending into a coal mine in Wyoming, and perching atop a wind turbine in Washington State.

The lifetime effects of coal on humans — from mining to climate change — gets attention tomorrow at the National Press Club.

'' [Methane emissions from coal mines] are important on many levels,» said Jonathan Banks, senior climate policy adviser at CATF and lead author of the report.

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.

Here's how it might work: Next year and in each year thereafter, Congress would set an overall cap on fossil fuels extracted by upstream energy producers, which David A. Weisbach of the University of Chicago Law School identifies as «fewer than 3,000 entities» — petroleum refiners, coal mines and domestic natural gas processors — «plus imports at a few locations.»

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.

As Tennessee coal mining region resident Ann League says: «The impacts of coal mining abuse do not stop at a mountain's edge.»

The analysis found that at its peak, the blowout doubled the rate of methane emissions from the entire Los Angeles basin and temporarily created the largest known human - caused point source of methane in the United States, twice as large as the next - largest source, an Alabama coal mine.

Scientists at the University of Edinburgh and the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre sampled deep methane gas from an exploratory coal bed methane field in central Scotland and disused coal mines in central England.

«Coral reefs are sometimes regarded as canaries in the global climate coal mine — but it is now very clear than not all reef species will be affected equally,» explains lead author Professor Terry Hughes, director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University.

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).

A screenshot of the Bureau of Land Management's home page displays a photo of a «large coal seam at the Peabody North Antelope Rochelle Mine in Wyoming.»

In an EdCast taped on Monday, Professor Daniel Koretz — author of Measuring Up: What Educational Testing Really Tells Us — calls the APS cheating case «the canary in the coal mine,» a cautionary tale about pressure «to raise scores at any cost.»

Woodson, who worked in Kentucky coal mines to support himself until he was able to enroll in high school at the age of 20, went on to receive his Ph.D. from Harvard and to found Negro History Week, the predecessor of today's February observance.

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.

Longyearbyen, the «capital» of Svalbard and its main town, is named after John Munro Longyear, an American who owned the Arctic Coal Company which surveyed and mined on Svalbard (the islands have a rich mining history) at the turn of the 20th century.

Currently, / indev / consists solely of a survival mode which requires players to mine ore, coal and stone, farm trees and food, and generally prepare their starting hovel for the dangerous zombies and skeletons that arrive at night.

So the black gold from the mines is at the centre of this exhibition of large - scale installations and sculptures: The deep black of coal, its shimmering surface and tactile qualities were used as aesthetic resources by artists such as Marcel Broodthaers, David Hammons, Reiner Ruthenbeck, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, Bernar Venet or the ZERO group.

New York (catalogue) Original Gagosian Gallery, New York New Portraits Blum & Poe, Tokyo (catalogue) Fashion Nahmad Contemporary, New York (catalogue) 2014 New Figures Almine Rech Gallery, Paris (catalogue) New Portraits Gagosian Gallery, New York It's a Free Concert Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz (catalogue) Canal Zone Gagosian Gallery, New York Richard Prince / Roe Ethridge Gagosian Gallery, New York (catalogue) 2013 Monochromatic Jokes Nahmad Contemporary, New York (catalogue) Protest Paintings Skarstedt Gallery, London (catalogue) Untitled (band) Le Case D'Arte, Milan Richard Prince: New Work Jürgen Becker, Hamburg (catalogue) Cowboys Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills (catalogue) Sadie Coles HQ, London 2012 White Paintings Skarstedt Gallery, New York (catalogue) Four Saturdays Gagosian Gallery, New York 14 Paintings 303 Gallery, New York (catalogue) Prince / Picasso Picasso Museum, Malaga (catalogue) 2011 The Fug Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels (catalogue) Covering Pollock Guild Hall, Easthampton The Magic Castle 1968 - 1969 Le Consortium, Contemporary Art Center, Dijon (catalogue) Gagosian Gallery, Hong Kong de Kooning Gagosian Gallery, Paris (catalogue) American Prayer Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris (catalogue) Bel Air Gagosian Residence, Los Angeles 2010 Pre-Appropriation Works, 1971 — 1974 Specific Objects, New York T - Shirt Paintings: Hippie Punk Salon 94, New York (catalogue) Tiffany Paintings Gagosian Gallery, New York (catalogue) 2009 After Dark Gagosian Gallery, New York 2008 Canal Zone Gagosian Gallery, New York (catalogue) Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris (catalogue) Continuation Serpentine Gallery, London Four Blue Cowboys Gagosian Gallery, Rome Gagosian Gallery, London Spiritual America Walker Art Center, Minneapolis 2007 Spiritual America Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (catalogue) Panama Pavilion 52nd Venice Biennale, Venice Fugitive Artist: The Early Work of Richard Prince, 1974 - 77 Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase Canaries in the Coal Mine Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo (catalogue) 2006 Cowboys, Mountains, and Sunsets Sprüth & Magers, Cologne The Portfolios Jürgen Becker, Hamburg Cowboys & Nurses John McWhinnie at Glenn Horowitz, New York 2005 Hippie Drawings Sadie Coles HQ, London (catalogue) Whitechapel Gallery, London Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York Check Paintings Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills (catalogue) 2004 American Dream, Collecting Richard Prince for 27 Years Rubell Family Collection, Miami (catalogue) Sammlung Goetz, Munich (catalogue) Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich (catalogue) Women Regen Projects, Los Angeles (catalogue) 2003 Nurse Paintings Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York (catalogue) Upstate Sabine Knust, Munich New Work Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, East Hampton Publicities Hydra Workshop, Hydra Island (catalogue) Nurse Paintings Sadie Coles HQ, London 2002 Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York (catalogue) Principal Painting and Photographs Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg Painting Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich Patrick Painter, Inc., Santa Monica 2001 Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel (catalogue) Publicities Sadie Coles, HQ, London (catalogue) Regen Projects, Los Angeles Photographs 1977 - 1979 Skarstedt Fine Art, New York (catalogue) Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp Neue Galerie im Höhmann - Haus, Augsburg 2000 Princeville Partobject Gallery, Carrboro Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York Photographs, Paintings Jablonka Galerie, Cologne 4x4 MAK, Vienna Up - state MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Schindler House, Los Angeles 1999 Paintings 1988 - 1998 Sadie Coles HQ, London 1998 Regen Projects, Los Angeles Joke Paintings Skarstedt Fine Art, New York Psychoarchitecture: Richard Prince, Martin Kippenberger Anton Kern Gallery, New York Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York Sabine Knust - Maximilian Verlag, Munich Stills Ltd., Edinburgh 1997 The White Room Jürgen Becker, Hamburg; Parco, Tokyo White Cube, London Museum Haus Lange / Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld Cowboys and Cowgirls Espace d'Art Yvonamor Palix, Paris 1996 Sabine Knust - Maximilian Verlag, Munich Passion Play Haus der Kunst, Munich New Works Jablonka Galerie, Cologne 1995 Paintings Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York Theoretical Events, Naples Regen Projects, Los Angeles 1994 Photographs 1977 - 1993 Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover (catalogue) Offshore Gallery, East Hampton 1993 Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp Fotos, Schilderijen, Objecten Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam Girlfriends Jablonka Galerie, Cologne (catalogue) Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco First House Stuart Regen Projects, Los Angeles 1992 Kunstverein and Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue) Protest Paintings Sabine Knust - Maximilian Verlag, Munich Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside Works on Paper Le Case d'Arte, Milan 1991 Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York Galleri Nordanstad — Skarstedt, Stockholm Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris Stuart Regen Gallery, Los Angeles 1990 Jokes, Gangs, Hoods Galerie Rafael Jablonka and Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans 1989 Spiritual America IVAM Center del Carme, Valencia (catalogue) Sculpture Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York Paintings Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York Barn Gallery, Ogunquit Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles 1988 Galerie Rafael Jablonka, Cologne Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York (catalogue) Centre National d'Art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble Le Case d'Arte, Milan Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris Messages to the Public: Tell Me Everything Public Art Fund, Times Square, New York 1987 Galerie Isabella Kacprzak, Stuttgart Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles 1986 International with Monument, New York Feature Gallery, Chicago 1985 International with Monument, New York Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Los Angeles 1984 Riverside Studios, London Feature Gallery, Chicago Baskerville + Watson, New York 1983 Le Nouveau Musée, Lyon (catalogue) Le Consortium, Contemporary Art Center, Dijon Institute of Contemporary Art, London Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Los Angeles Baskerville + Watson, New York 1982 Metro Pictures, New York 1981 Metro Pictures, New York Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Los Angeles 1980 Artists Space, New York CEPA Gallery, Buffalo

Worms» panoramic views of what at first appear to be natural hillsides are, in fact, industrial slag heaps — mounds of waste material produced by coal mining.

A majority of the coal used today is Powder River Basin coal and it works out to cost about $ 1 at the mine for a million BTU.

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 increasing proliferation of these tools has the potential to raise awareness among environmentally - minded people and perhaps bring pressure to bear upon utilities to use more renewable energy sources (or at least less coal mined from the tops of mountains!)