Sentences with phrase «pit coal mines»

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

Hazel was the seventh of eight children who grew up in the hamlet of Pwll y Lord - The Lord's Pit, referring to a coal mine which closed in the 1890's.

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

Gypsies used these terriers to poach game off the landed gentry, and coal miners used them to rid the mines of rats, and raced them for fun, often pitting them against lightning - fast Whippets.

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

Between Friday and Sunday, excavation was stopped in part of the pit and 80 coal train trips were stopped between the mine and the power plant that burns its coal, which powered down to just 20 % of its capacity.

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.

A solar powered coal - mining museum is a fantastic way to celebrate this national journey,» said Peter Walker, Museum Manager of Big Pit.

Despite decades of coal mining, a lot of people still want to believe (and probably want you to believe) that the U.S. has a bottomless pit of coal resources.

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].