Banks suggests that reconciling those rights agreements could lead to a shift in
the way coal mining companies view methane gas, treating it as a potential source of revenue rather than a fugitive gas to be dealt with as a safety or environmental concern.
Not exact matches
With domestic demand for
coal collapsing,
mining companies are trying to find a
way to ship their dirty fuel to other countries.
American
coal companies badly want to export
coal from the country's most productive
mines in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming and Montana, but there is no
way to send the
coal out.
After the
coal company's formation it began to find
ways to make money from
coal mining.
The answer lies in whether the University of Kentucky, Virginia Tech and West Virginia University, working with federal energy laboratories, a few
coal companies and large manufacturers, can identify
ways and locations to economically extract and process rare earth elements from the waste streams left over from
mining coal throughout Appalachia and Western Kentucky.