Sentences with phrase «peat mining»

Emissions from fires and peat mining (for horticulture and fuel) amount to another 700,000 million tons per year.

Stadskanaal is a Canal, municipality and a town in the north - eastern Netherlands.The area is known for its peat mining.

In the case before the Court, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers v. Hawkes Co., the Corps issued a JD asserting jurisdiction over wetlands on a peat mine in Minnesota.

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Scientists discovered the fossils in ancient peat deposits at the Tevshiin Govi mine in the steppes of central Mongolia.

To extract each barrel of oil from a surface mine, the industry must first cut down the forest, then remove an average of two tons of peat and dirt that lie above the oil sands layer, then two tons of the sand itself.

These vast numbers of additional humans cleared forests increasing CO2, mined and burned lots of peat which is a fossil fuel, and increased bovine herds substantially which raises methane levels.