Sentences with phrase «with coal mining companies»

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

am working with coal mine company.

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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.

«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.

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

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

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.

In other words, coal mining companies own the coal they extract but not the methane that mingles with it and is released into the atmosphere during production.

Robinson is working with the coal - mining company, Solid Energy New Zealand, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology to determine whether certain soil amendments will reduce plant uptake of cadmium.

Faced with a choice between installing expensive pollution - control equipment or switching to low - sulfur coal mined outside Illinois, power companies overwhelmingly chose the latter.

And yes, the patriotic coal companies never seem to mention the despoilation of thousands of square miles of Appalachia with strip mines and millions of cubic yards of tailings dumped into streams and watersheds.

We want energy production technologies that make coal power plants and coal mining look ever more archaic and unfashionable so that no developed or developing nation can build another one with any pride, and so even energy companies will shut down existing plants with a sense of relief, rather than regret.

So if the world moves toward a system for tracking emissions, who is responsible for a particular batch of carbon dioxide — the company that mined and sold the coal, the power plant that burned it, the consumer who buys the exported widget made with the electricity generated by that combustion, or...?

In a news release issued today, the coal company, Peabody Energy, gushingly describes the company's partnership with the government of the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region and Communist Party on a plan to develop a surface coal mine that will produced 50 million tons of coal a year «over multiple decades.»

One of those liabilities could be Murray Energy, the largest privately owned coal mining company in the U.S. Robert Murray, the company's CEO has said that if FirstEnergy goes under, it could take Murray Energy with it.

An Indian company with close ties to Modi, Adani Enterprises, has plans to build a massive new coal mine in Australia in order to feed India's energy sector.

In January 2011, Peabody Energy announced two partnerships with Chinese energy companies to build coal mines near newly planned power plants in China.

With domestic demand for coal collapsing, mining companies are trying to find a way to ship their dirty fuel to other countries.

This month the Crow Nation signed an agreement with a Wyoming mining company (Cloud Peak Energy) to mine up to 1.4 billion tons of coal on the Crow Nation.

Greenpeace included in its data owners and board members of oil, gas and coal mining companies and firms that transport these fossil fuels, and people with major investments in the companies.

In the case of mountaintop removal mining, coal companies are exploding entire mountains to reach buried seams of coal and then filling valleys with the rubble, burying hundreds of miles of stream forever.

ACCCE members include coal mining companies, railroad companies, along with electric cooperatives and two of the largest utility companies, American Electric Power and Southern Company.

By the early 20th century, coal made the United Mine Workers the largest union in the U.S.. Its battles with mining companies were among the nation's bloodiest.

On Oct. 3, 2011, a coalition of conservation and environmental groups announced completion of a legal settlement with Arch Coal and its subsidiaries, which will require the coal mining company to clean up toxic run off from six coal mines in Logan County, West VirgiCoal and its subsidiaries, which will require the coal mining company to clean up toxic run off from six coal mines in Logan County, West Virgicoal mining company to clean up toxic run off from six coal mines in Logan County, West Virgicoal mines in Logan County, West Virginia.

In June, 2010 the company along with Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer, toured Otter Creek where Arch Coal executives stated that they will aggressively pursue state permitting and hope to begin mining by the middle of the decade.

The company mines, processes, and markets bituminous and sub-bituminous coal with low sulfur content in the United States.

With most of the country's coal and lignite mining companies and electricity producers completely or partially owned or controlled by the state, the national imperative to boost the industry is clear.

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.

«While we wouldn't comment on alliances with particular organizations, Peabody has a track record of advancing responsible energy and environmental policies, and we support organizations that advocate sustainable mining, energy access and clean coal solutions, in line with our company's leadership in these areas,» Vic Svec, Peabody's senior vice-president for global investor and corporate relations, wrote in an email.

A Greenpeace investigation released last week highlights the recurring themes of Big Coal advertising, with decades of ads from coal mining companies, coal - burning utilities, and industry front groCoal advertising, with decades of ads from coal mining companies, coal - burning utilities, and industry front grocoal mining companies, coal - burning utilities, and industry front grocoal - burning utilities, and industry front groups.

Codelco, the largest copper mining company in the world, canceled it plans to construct Energía Minera, which would have been the largest coal - fired plant in Chile with a capacity of 1,050 megawatts and worth $ 1.7 billion USD.

Hamilton in particular referred to the permit process associated with Arch Coal Company's Spruce Mine, which he called «the most egregious example» of the «permitorium,» as the approval process had taken more than six years.

«Over the past two years, Norges Bank, following upon its investment mandates from the Norwegian Parliament (Stortinget) and the Minister of Finance, divested the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG)'s of its holdings in at least 49 companies with substantial operations related to mining and burning of coal.

Russia's Coal Sector, formerly operated by RosUgol, a government - owned holding company that was organized along regional lines, has been restructured, with many unprofitable mines closed down, RosUgol eliminated, and the remaining efficient mines privatized.

Most recently, a report from The Carbon Tracker with a forward by Lord Stern of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change (London School of Economics), argued that serious risks are accumulating for investors in high carbon assets, such as coal mining companies and the oil and gas industry.

«With regard to coal, over the past several years we have been gradually and consistently reducing our credit exposure to companies focused on coal mining.

The latest in a flurry of environmentally - devastating, last - minute rule changes from the Bush administration will give the go ahead for coal mining companies to fill valleys with the mining debris left over from lobbing - off mountaintops

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.