Sentences with phrase «of coal trains»

I recall one of the big Amtrak delays is to get out of the way of coal trains, and another is for the maintenance demanded by the heavy traffic.

Analyzes the impacts to cultural and archaeological resources in tribal communities that are located in the path of the coal trains, barges and ships that will supply the Gateway Pacific Terminal.

«The next day I joined the blockade of coal trains on the train tracks from the mine to the plant.

The addition of coal trains at projected numbers would require massive investment in rail infrastructure such as sidings, double - tracking, and other improvements in order for our train system to function effectively.

Expansions at the Fraser Surrey Docks coal export facility in Vancouver, Canada would increase the number of coal trains moving through Washington.

I don't see how any informed person could drive by 20 miles of coal trains and not see them as trains of death.

He says, rather, that he thinks of these coal trains as bringing «uncountable irreplaceable species» to their extinction.

Just as Nebraska doesn't want the Keystone XL pipeline running through its backyard, coastal states such as Washington and Oregon don't want to see an endless string of coal trains hauling millions of tons of coal to export terminals on the Pacific.

But as a former director at the environmental group Greenpeace, I can tell you that activists don't occupy a logging company's offices, or lie down in front of a coal train, or march in the streets of New York for money.

The authors present the image of a coal train that stretches 55,000 miles, long enough to circle the globe twice, carrying 314 million metric tons of carbon - the amount of CO2 emitted by U.S. cars and trucks in the year 2004.

Not exact matches

With coal trains already coursing through the Lower Mainland to the much larger Westshore and Neptune terminals, it's not surprising the environmental report behind the port authority's decision found no appreciable impacts on the health of area residents.

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.

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I saw the tracks they left on the highways, lying on the floor of freight trains, the parents in rags, the coal box empty, the sink running over, the walls sweating and between the cold beads of sweat the cockroaches running like mad; I saw them hobbling along like twisted gnomes or falling backwards in the epileptic frenzy....

«To coal and iron mines, to freight trains, to fishing fleets in December, to dishwashing, clothes - washing, and window - washing, to road - building and tunnel - making, to foundries and stoke - holes, and to the frames of skyscrapers, would our gilded youths be drafted off, according to their choice, to get the childishness knocked out of them, and to come back into society with healthier sympathies and more sober ideas.

If hurt Christians were chunks of coal you could burn them to power a steam train for the past 2,000 years on into time immeasurable.

I have Christmas fever in a big way and this train's not slowing down... in fact, I've got a whole lot more coal to keep it moving at a fast pace for the next couple of weeks so get ready!

The train is comprised of a locomotive, coal car, three wagons, and a caboose all of which can seat both young and old alike.

The train carried more than 13,000 tons of coal.

Promising coal communities a return of their jobs has the potential to fill them with false hope, which can threaten the very progress that has been made in launching job training programs and other transition steps.

Whatever privation was noted — no spare parts for trains, unsafe conditions in coal mines, empty shelves in shops — they would simply say: «Yes, the Gang of Four... but they're gone now.»

Thanks to coal power plants and train systems, there was a period of human - induced higher temps in the late 1930s and early 1940s.

Exactly as tedious as Steamboy, then, and covering exactly the same ground, Howl's Moving Castle shares with Ôtomo's film, too, a giant steam - powered ball as its central image, encapsulating a vision of Victorian England in a Frankenstein's yin / yang clattering along inexorably like the Industrial Revolution while gorgeous impressionistic watercolour towns are polluted by coal smoke from a fleet of trains burning through the forests at night.

Shortly before daybreak in War, West Virginia, a passing train derails and spills an avalanche of coal over 16 - year - old Emma Palmisano's house, trapping her sleeping family inside.

He spent a week in an underground mine in Pennsylvania, hiked through West Virginia with anti-mountaintop removal activists, rode a coal train through the Black Hills of South Dakota, toured coal plants in China, and spent a month in the North Atlantic with climate scientists aboard the R / V Knorr, a research vessel operated by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

On the last day in June, in the year when the rest of the world was reeling from the sinking of the Titanic, 19 - year - old Emma Malloy was given two choices: get on the next train to Coal River, Pennsylvania, or be sent to a Brooklyn poorhouse.

Our Littleton, CO veterinary hospital's Canine Academy offers a variety of specialized classes for specific coals, including street agility training, AKC S.T.A.R. puppy certification, AKC Canine Good Citizen certification, and much more.

This coal - fired, steam powered train passes through the scenic Animas Gorge and San Juan National Forest, with views of wildflowers, mountain goats and 14,000 foot peaks, following the journey of miners, cowboys and settlers of the Old West.

These, and the carriages» opening windows, give our guests the full romantic and evocative experience of steam rail travel from the smell of the coal smoke to the panting of the engine as it climbs the Brocken, the train's wheels clattering on the rails beneath.

Microsoft's Aaron Greenberg has stoked the coals of the hype train a little more by suggesting that Microsoft have tons of exclusives» to show off at E3 this year, also hinting that the next - gen console, codenamed Durango, might emerge this holiday season.

Two large paintings, one in red, «Chief» (1942) and another in blue, are heavily painted close - ups of coal - transporting trains.

His wry sense of humor was out in full force in this homage to John Coltrane, an exquisite installation made with coal and grand - piano tops that featured a minia - ture train running along a circuitous track.

The former of these works was commissioned by the Kunsthalle Recklinghausen — a gallery set in one of Germany's coalmining regions — and appears as a huge mound of black coal, interspersed with red diodes, which is encircled by another part of the commission — Time Train to the Holocaust (2008).

Here a toy train hauls carts of tiny blue counter gadgets as it moves around the installation, which, according to Kent, serves to remind the viewer of Germany's enormous «railway system, which was built for coal but also took a vast number of humans to their death.»

You can almost see as a vestige of train trestle and this is kind of a strange like a coal car or something and you can see that he's transitioning into his more kind of iconic black and white works.

It kind of relates to his earlier work when he was doing these steel and coal paintings, where he painted these primitive sort of trains and coal mines.

«If we can not stop the building of more coal - fired power plants, those coal trains will be death trains — no less gruesome than if they were boxcars headed to crematoria, loaded with uncountable irreplaceable species.»

Lots of images: Russian roulette, elephant in the living room that everyone is ignoring, 800 pound gorilla in the room that nobody is paying attention to, canary in the coal mine (Arctic ice melting rapidly year by year now), a train wreck in slow motion, the list goes on and on.

It says nothing about people rushing to stoke the engine with more and more coal, or how much actual coal is added (thus the actual range of speeds to expect), or the possibility of a precipice with bridge out up ahead (runaway GW), how dangerous that might be at various speeds, entailing greater or less number of deaths, or how far or close that precipice is, which we don't know either (except we have some fossil evidence of train wrecks in which 90 % of life died, so we know it could be bad).

It's like we're all in this train which increases its speed a certain amount per amount of coal added, but we don't know exactly how much; we only have a range.

Every night an old coal train chugs in to central Beijing to deliver its load to the Guohua power plant, one of the city's oldest power stations now surrounded by glitzy malls and towering apartment blocks.

It feels me with pride every time I drive 70 mph in a big ford truck past a mile long train of coal.

When the The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity introduced their Clean Coal Carolers in 2008, we called it a» jaw - dropping train wreck of a marketing campaign.»

He has used strong words and imagery before to drive home points, including comparing cordons of coal cars heading to power plants to the death trains of the Holocaust (because of the mass extinctions foreseen by many biologists should warming go unabated).

Two factors make much of India's and China's coal expensive or inaccessible; it takes a lot of water, which is in short supply, to extract and burn the coal at mine - mouth, and it takes a lot of diesel fuel, increasingly expensive, to train / truck / ship it to coastal power plants and load centers....

To keep up with technology and to extract coal as efficiently as possible, modern mining personnel must be highly skilled and well - trained in the use of complex, state - of - the - art equipment.

The next round of impacts occurs in connection with transport, including dust, coal spills, and disruption of communities by mile - long coal trains.

Then (2009) he informed us that «coal trains» were like the «death trains» of WWII and coal - fired power plants were «death factories».

The Governor said that coal exports could clog barge and train routes, increase diesel and coal dust pollution and boost amounts of toxic mercury drifting back to Oregon when Asian countries burn the coal.

On May 29, 2012 the Seattle City Council unanimously passed a resolution opposing the development of coal - export terminals in Washington state after raising concerns about increased train traffic and potential harm to health and the environment.