Sentences with phrase «with coal mining»

It's unclear how many rural anti-wind activists are OK with coal mining mountaintop removal but they should realize it's all part of the pillaging continuum, regardless of whether it pays their bills (where wisdom ends and greed prevails).

That's true even when one counts the energy - intensive tar sands extraction and processing — and, of course, there are plenty of upstream emissions associated with coal mining that I've left out of the equation here.

Prior to 1996, Mr. Krivokuca held a variety of positions with coal mining companies in the eastern United States.

The fossil fuel alternative also comes with many, many well proven consequent illnesses and deaths: from the pollution connected with coal mining and with the pollution following the burning of the coal.

Finally, the nonprofit group Appalachian Voices has created ilovemountains.org/myconnection, which allows visitors to type in a ZIP code and find out if their utility sells electricity produced with coal mined from mountaintops in that region.

«You're essentially condemning a lot of unemployed people to a much lower standard of living since in these [coal - producing] regions there are no readily available jobs that can offer salaries that compete with a coal mine,» he added.

The refundable tax credits were intended to make Virginia coal cheaper for utilities to buy, and thus more competitive with coal mined in other states.

As with Keystone XL, so with the wells that would be drilled on Federal lands, so with the coal mine expansions.

am working with coal mine company.

Not exact matches

Most of it will come from mines in Wyoming and Montana that find themselves without domestic customers since the shale gas revolution, combined with emissions control regulation, drove utilities in the U.S. to shut down coal - fired plants and fire up cleaner - burning natural gas plants.

Jeannie Kielty, who works on community relations for Banks, says open cast is part of the social fabric of the northeast, an area with a long history of coal mining.

Local company Prairie Mining has raised $ 15 million from UK - based CD Capital for the development of its Lublin coal project, with the potential for the private equity fund to invest a further $ 68 million.

Civil contracting and mining services firm NRW Holdings has dipped into the red with a $ 120.6 million half - year loss, but announced a $ 330 million contract extension with Middlemount Coal.

Many of its citizens, after long careers in coal mining industry, struggle with chronic pain (some of which have since become hooked on opioids).

With the Chinese market a major driver of coal demand in Asia, any policy changes in the country will affect prices, contributing to the likelihood of continued price volatility in the seaborne coal market, wrote Wood Mackenzie's principal analyst for mining and metals fundamentals research, Rory Simington in a Nov. 16 report.

«The TECO Coal Corp. mine I worked for completely shut down,» he said, recalling identical fates with two other mining companies he'd worked for until being laid off.

Wyoming, with rich reserves of low - sulfur coal near the surface, is the largest coal - producing - state and has the most coal still in the ground at producing mines.

With EMR Capital taking the reins at Kestrel - another former Rio Tinto coal mine - surely BHP will try again to offload its adjacent Gregory Crinum mines.

Street Talk also won't be surprised if the owner of the Dartbrook mine, Australian Pacific Coal, ends up in some sort of «conscious coupling» with unlisted Mach Energy, which owns the nearby Mt Pleasant development project.

Annette began her career as a development officer with the Cape Breton Development Corporation, a coal mining operation, in Sydney, Nova Scotia.

India is building railroad lines that crisscross the country to connect underused coal mines with growing urban populations, threatening to dump more resources into an already glutted market.

For example, PNC no longer lends to coal producers with anything more than a minimal exposure to mountaintop removal mining.

It currently has a population of roughly 17,200 residents and attracts tourists with the Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine and Tamarack art center.

The power plant is one of the largest employers in Colstrip and is located near a coal mine, which supplies it with fuel.

The 2 yr T - Note chart is the «canary in the coal mine,» signaling the beginning of rising inflation along with rising commodity prices.

South32 chief executive Graham Kerr says the mining company is dealing with a «long term cultural issue» at its Illawarra Metallurgical Coal...

The Japanese firm already has stakes in gas fields in eastern Australia, where it has worked closely with AWE, and also owns stakes in liquefied natural gas projects in Western Australia, as well as coal and iron ore mines.

Keystone Pipeline, Coal Mining, Birth Control, Equal Justice,... Now we have an appointed clergy to define, redefine, mandate, and even get Executive Orders to impose upon and force the citizenry to be compliant with the Social and Political Doctrine of the Faction in power.

«To coal and iron mines, to freight trains, to fishing fleets in December, to dishwashing, clothes - washing, and window - washing, to road - building and tunnel - making, to foundries and stoke - holes, and to the frames of skyscrapers, would our gilded youths be drafted off, according to their choice, to get the childishness knocked out of them, and to come back into society with healthier sympathies and more sober ideas.

Grew up tiny coal mine town with spectacular park & pool.learn to swim and dive age 5.

Henri worked with Engineer Alf Burtleson, who later designed caves for FarNiente, Newton, Pine Ridge, and Robert Sinskey, among others, using an old coal mining machine.

The coal miners of the Hunter Valley should be feeling a little bit more comfortable with Wednesday's news that the state planning authority has very rapidly ticked - off on the stalled Mt Thorley Warkworth mine expansion.

A Fair Work Commission decision to scrap a workplace agreement at a NSW coal terminal sends ripples through the mining industry, with the issue of workers» entitlements tipped to become an election issue.

The initial stance was to generate discussion in regards to the negative impacts associated with areas of interest outside of coal mining, specifically those that will worsen once coal mining subsides.

It is possible that the creation of cement will not be as bad as the pollution from coal - mining; however, in regards to «With the elimination of fly - ash alternatives, cement creation will quickly be the leading cause of green house gases» — If it is a top creator now, and we increase the usage, would you not expect it to climb the list?

Coal mining produces green house gases, it ruins entire ecosystems through the poisoning of water tables and the destruction of forests and sometimes entire mountaintops, it pollutes with heavy metals, the list goes on and on.

The Opening Bell 12-19-2016: CarAdvise App and a Froggy Exhibit - WGN Radio - December 19, 2016 Steve Grzanich talked with Allison Sacerdote - Velat about how frogs act as a sort of canary in the coal mine as far as environmental changes go, and she previewed some of the exciting sights and sounds of the riveting and ribbiting exhibit.

The miners strike of 1984 — 85 over coal mine closures, which divided the NUM as well as the Labour Party, and the Wapping dispute led to clashes with the left of the party, and negative coverage in most of the press.

Massey's name, now closely associated with MTR and the most deadly mine disaster in the past 20 years, has turned as black as the coal they mine.

«Whilst the government has committed to cutting UK carbon emissions by 80 per cent by 2050, we need to ensure the actions reflect the words, and that plans to open new coal mines or build new runways are met with mass resistance,» Susan Nash of NUS said.

BP has joined in a partnership with Synthetic Genomics to sequence genomes from microbes that live in coal mines and oil wells.

If it includes a requirement to consider the life - cycle effects of greenhouse gases associated with the coal to be extracted, it might tip the scales against the new mine.

«There are also other important measures to reduce methane emissions from coal mining, municipal waste treatment and gas distribution, for example, as well as black carbon emission reductions through elimination of high - emitting vehicles, use of cleaner biomass cooking and heating stoves, replacement of kerosene wick lamps with LED lamps and other measures,» adds Zbigniew Klimont of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria, who also took part in the study.

This past April, RAN teamed up for the second year in a row with another leading non-profit green group concerned about MTR, the Sierra Club, in publishing a «report card» reviewing 10 of the world's largest banks in regard to their financing of MTR coal mining projects.

«We are the canary in the coal mine with climate change,» said Hallandale Commissioner Keith London, a ponytailed, athletic politician who attends hydrology work groups in his spare time.

For the coal system, the study estimates the toxicity associated with air pollutants emitted during power generation, as well as toxic chemical releases during the coal - mining process from acid - mine drainage and coal - ash impoundment.

Coal - mining companies blast the peaks into the valleys and streams, which are filling with rubble and the corpses of trees.

With China's coal demand the primary driver for a slew of mine investments over the past decade, this trend could derail a list of capital intensive coal projects from Australia to Indonesia and Mozambique.

According to GBI, China's increase in coal production will come with additional government consolidation of the mining industry into large production bases that can achieve greater efficiencies and production capacities of 90 percent by mid-decade.

Across the country, the transport, mining and importing of coal with an ash content higher than 40 per cent and sulphur content higher than 3 per cent is banned, effectively ending the use of the poorest - quality coal.