Sentences with word «opencast»

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It's top of Sharp End's agenda this week along with questions about the future of opencast mining in Wales and the prospects of improving the M4.

RM: This is a naked piece of political mudslinging as Hammond spends several minutes extolling the greatness of the mansion that inspired Jane Austen's Pemberley in Pride and Prejudice, which he claims was threatened by opencast mining nearby that was authorised by a previous Labour government.

Under the terms of the $ 715 million contract, the Chinese will build an additional 350 MW unit at Kostolac and expand operations at a nearby opencast mine producing lignite — the «dirtiest» coal

I was with thousands of others taking part in an occupation of one of Germany's largest opencast coal mines.

Unlike the situation with aggregates for example, there is no land banking policy for opencast coal embedded in the formalities of the Town and Country Planning system.

Photogrammetry is also used to measure stockpiles of building materials and volumes of ore in opencast mines.

«And communities asked to accept intrusive new renewable energy infrastructure such as wind farms will ask how serious the government is about reducing greenhouse gas emissions when it is still prepared to allow carbon intensive opencast mining.»

Extracting it from the ground involves tearing up landscapes with opencast mines, or risking human health and lives in deep mines.

In Jharia, famous for its rich coal resources, 700,000 people are exposed to toxic smoke that seeps from the ground as fires from opencast coalmines burn around the clock.

Namibia has called in a team of UN experts to investigate the health and safety of workersat the world's biggest opencast uranium mine.

Coal mining is usually broken up into two categories: Surface (also known as opencast) and underground.

In this image the patterns are not created by prehistoric societies but by opencast ironstone quarrying east of Corby — the lines snaking across the plate are the overburden removed to gain access to the ironstone beds.

Like walking on the moon; we pass between great mounds of aggregate growing out of this «moonscape»; a vast opencast mine, peppered with ancient olive trees, and hard - hatted workers, as we head towards a conspicuously clean minimalist building.

As well as works by Anish Kapoor, Richard Long, Pedro Reyes and Santiago Sierra, the gallery is presenting a special display of the four monumental canvases — North, South, East and West — that comprise Liu Xiaodong's Hotan Project series (2012), which were painted in and around the notorious opencast jade mines and the devastated landscapes of a remote area of China's largest, most westerly province of Xinjiang.

Thus, Mátra Power Co. was combined with the Visonta and Bükkábrány opencast lignite mines in 1993, Bakony Power Co. with the Padrag, Ármin, Jókai and Balinka coal mines in 1994, and Pécs Power Co. with the Külfejtés and Komló mines.

Even if Britain's considerable opencast and deep mine coal resources are not to be extensively worked under the existing planning regime, it is important that they should be kept available to facilitate any future change in policy which might favour their exploitation.

One such supporter of that sector is the JSS Empowerment Mining Fund, a newly launched USD 75 million fund, a partnership between boutique corporate finance firm Jaltech and Johannesburg Stock Exchange - listed Stefanutti Stocks, offering funding for junior opencast mining companies.

Large opencast mines can cover an area of many square kilometres and use very large pieces of equipment, such as draglines, power shovels, large trucks, bucket wheel excavators and conveyors.

Estonia uses local oil shales, obtained by opencast mining and burnt in outdated and polluting plants.

Under the terms of the US$ 715m contract, the Chinese will build an additional 350 MW unit at Kostolac and expand operations at a nearby opencast mine producing lignite — the «dirtiest» coal.

The peer's Blagdon Estate, north of Newcastle, covers a significant part of two opencast mines.

The most environmentally damaging stage in the manufacture of zeolite builders is the opencast mining of Australian bauxite ore from which the zeolite is made, and the carbon dioxide generated during transport of the ore to Europe.

Serra Pelada is an opencast mine, a prodigious pit dug by human hands, the result of a massive influx of self - employed miners to a remote part of northeastern Brazil.

In fact one can easily imagine Sorigué's engineers drawing a comparison between the artist's heaped mounds of paint, and the great mountains of mined aggregate surrounding the minimalist Kiefer Pavilion; the installation of paintings could easily be seen as a direct response to — and dialogue with — the raw materials of this opencast mine, resulting in paintings seemingly built from the surrounding earth and grit; fitting considering the artist's use of materials.

Alfredo Jaar's photographs of Serra Pelada, an opencast gold mine dug by human hands in Brazil, are shown as color transparencies mounted in lightboxes, and sit in uneasy relation to Liza Lou's Gather Forty, a sculpture made from gold - plated beads threaded and bound in a sheaf.

Underground mining currently accounts for a bigger share of world coal production than opencast; although in several important coal producing countries surface mining is more common.

Coal is mined by two methods: surface or «opencast» mining, and underground mining.

People living near Kostolac — with houses close to the opencast mine which feeds the power plant — say there is a high rate of respiratory disease in the area; houses have also been damaged by land subsidence.