Sentences with phrase «open pit coal»

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

The real news coming out of these talks is what happened outside the negotiating halls: massive protests at Germany's open pit coal mines with Pacific islanders standing in solidarity, governments joining a new initiative to power past coal, Norway's push to ditch oil and gas investments, and the emergence of non-state actors as a powerful force for change.

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Coal is a fossil fuel extracted from the ground by underground mining or open - pit mining (strip mining).

The two most common disposal practices for coal tar, dumping it into open pits or waterways, were obviously unsavory.

Ignoring global warming issues, TXU Corp, open - pit coal mine and electric utility company, is embarking on the nation's single largest coal - oriented electric power plant construction campaign.

However, in recent years, the region's dairy farms, vineyards, and ranches have become islands surrounded by oceans of open - pit coal mines.

However, in recent years, the region's farms have become islands surrounded by oceans of open - pit coal mines.

In parallel, the Ende Gelände direct actions targeting the open mining pit, with activists occupying sites on the mine and blocking coal trains.

The mining process is similar to coal mining, with both open pit and underground mines.

He pointed out that a top political priority for his government is the gigantic Adani company open pit Carmichael coal mine and rail project in Queensland, which will export its coal to plants in India serving serving 100 million people.

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].

Over the years, it has faced multiple threats from proposed open - pit coal mines, gold mines and oil and gas drilling, prompting American Rivers to name it one of the nation's Most Endangered Rivers in 2009.

In an unprecedented move, the British government rejected plans for a new open - pit coal mine in Northumberland county in northeast England, citing concerns over climate change as a reason.

The union movement in B.C. has scored a victory with the decision by a mining company to halt plans to create an open - pit coal mine using temporary foreign workers.