Sentences with phrase «of coalmining»

Others named in the 2015 invitation included Tennessee Valley Authority president Bill Johns, Christopher C. Horner of the Competitive Enterprise Institute and Energy & Environment Legal Institute, and «the owners and chief executives of coalmining and energy companies» including Alliance Resource Partners, Alpha Natural Resources, Consol Energy, Drummond Company, and United Coal Company.

«This is and was a memorable moment for the mine workers in Limburg, which forces us to remember the 100 years of coalmining in Europe, the social struggle of the coal miners and to acknowledge the impact the closure of coalmining and the conversion processes afterwards had on our current industrial and social changes and structures,» Hedwig Fijen, Director of Manifesta, told A.i.A. via email.

Unlike the sad fate of the coalmine canary, who perished at the earliest indications of trouble, our credit canary is singing with renewed vigor as demand for its services rises as the poison in the credit atmosphere intensifies.

Saying «we need to reduce by the second - half of the century» is pitifully weak, it might as well say that we should all buy a couple of coalmines and sit back and watch the world burn till 2099.

Not exact matches

The Fitbit anxiety is just the «canary in the coalmine,» an early symptom of the bigger problem.

In many ways Iceland is the tip of the iceberg — the proverbial canary in the coalmine showing the need to better cope with over-indebted economies.

Qualcomm Ventures is likely the canary in the coalmine for the amount of waste and pet projects there are at Qualcomm.

Elsewhere there are people trying to grow pinot noir, sometimes called wine's canary in the coalmine as it tolerates a narrower band of temperatures.

Baroness Blackstone: «Probably the best part of the trip was the visit to the Landau open - cast coalmine.

«Trout are one of the best indicators of healthy river ecosystems; they're the aquatic version of the canary in the coalmine,» says NRDC's Theo Spencer.

The agency says a 2006 law mandated that coalmines install wireless communications and electronic tracking systems underground, which positioning systems could use to broadcast the whereabouts of stranded miners.

Watershed groups near Pittsburgh, for instance, know to look out for discharge from old coalmines, which wouldn't be a factor in other parts of the state.

Corals are the canary in the coalmine for this planetKit Drake responds to our report of an unprecedented fourth...

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He said: «Tropical glaciers are the canaries in the coalmine for our global climate system, as they integrate and respond to most of the key climatological variables — temperature, precipitation, cloudiness, humidity and radiation.»

Julie has learned that children with autism are the «canaries in the coalmine,» informing us that we have too many toxins and nutrient deficiency that have affected our genetic expression, as well as exposure to environmental triggers that are harming the development of our children as well as our health.

But by the time the third local yokel makes the same crack, it becomes the canary in the coalmine of a tonally incoherent dark - comedy - drama that doesn't have a clue how to manage its weighty themes and discordant plot.

So I'm happy to let Gen - Y be the canary in the coalmine and sniff out things like The Room and Birdemic, the much - hyped new «worst movies of all time.»

Test scores are the canary in the coalmine at Auer Avenue and dozens of schools like Auer.

Thus it owned and operated all the coalmines, fixed coal prices to its own benefit and was able to establish its own standards - or lack of - for employee treatment and compensation.

The swift erosion of this cornerstone of short term lending for banks and companies is a canary in a coalmine for the economy, analysts said.

Domoic acid intoxication of sea lions: a renewed need for the canary in the coalmine.

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).

Featuring members of the Snowdown Colliery Male Voice Choir, the work memorialises a Kentish coalmine through the former miners» vocal embodiment of memory.

For the piece, Karikis asked the Snowdown Colliery Male Voice Choir to vocalise the industrial sounds of a former coalmine based on their memories.

These works of art utilize pigments generated by remediating toxic streams polluted by coalmine runoff.

They may be the proverbial «canaries in the coalmine» of our ocean.

Individual species in trouble were said to be early warning signals, like canaries in coalmines, or small but essential, like rivets in airplanes — the works and windings of natural systems, which no sane tinkerer would cast aside.

This situation — which has already spurred the dismissal of Greenland's foreign minister — could be the canary in the coalmine signaling that climate change will further complicate the already contentious politics of military bases.

A highly orchestrated, secretly foreign - funded group of Australian environmental activists opposing the $ 16 billion Adani coalmine in Queensland has «dampened» Indian investment interest in Australia and received heated criticism from the federal Coalition and Queensland Labor governments.

The first of the series was about polar bears, which they referred to as the canaries in the global - warming coalmine, ignoring the fact that polar bear numbers are actually the highest since records began.

President Trump visited the EPA headquarters on March 28 and before an audience of coalminers, signed an executive order to overturn the Clean Power Plan to curb carbon dioxide emissions from coal - fired power plants, and to allow coalmining leases on federal lands.

«It's a very clear indication from the Australian people that they want a much better environmental outcome in this age of climate change, pulp mills, forest destruction and more coalmines.»

He said: «Tropical glaciers are the canaries in the coalmine for our global climate system, as they integrate and respond to most of the key climatological variables — temperature, precipitation, cloudiness, humidity and radiation.»

The problem with the canary in the coalmine metaphor is that it tends to understate the seriousness of the problem.

«The period can be the canary in the coalmine,» said Dr. Katharine White, an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Boston University's School of Medicine.