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Cumbria coal mine: Would it threaten the UK's climate targets?

The government has missed its deadline to announce whether it will approve a new coal mine in Cumbria - the first for 30 years. It would provide fuel for the UK's steel-making industry, which ...

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Wangan and Jagalingou traditional owners use human rights law to occupy ...

4 days agoIn what is believed to be a first, these Wangan and Jagalingou traditional owners are using the Queensland Human Rights Act to occupy a mining lease held by Bravus, the Australian arm of Indian ...

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More coal won't fix the UK's energy crisis | New Internationalist

Apr 11, 2022The answer is two-fold: First, the Coal Authority has publicly stated that it cannot reject a coal mine application on any grounds beyond a narrow set of criteria outlined in the 1994 Coal Industry Act - which does not include climate commitments or impacts.

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Indigenous Australians Take Fight Against Giant Coal Mine to the United ...

Earlier this month, they took their fight to the United Nations after years of Australia's failure to protect their fundamental human rights. A company called Adani Mining Pty Ltd, part of the Adani Group of companies founded by an Indian billionaire named Gautam Adani, is determined to build the massive Carmichael Coal Mine and Rail Project ...

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How Lummi Nation's Treaty Stand Beat Big Coal

We are honored to share more of the story of how Lummi Nation defeated one of the largest coal export terminals in North America, including exclusive video footage of Monday's events, below. LUMMI RESERVATION—The chairman of Lummi Nation couldn't sit still. Chairman Tim Ballew II kept checking his phone to make sure he didn't miss the call.

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Pacific nations draw new battle lines against rising seas

OSLO, March 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Small island states in the Pacific are opening a new front in the fight against rising seas, to secure rights to an ocean area bigger than the moon ...

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Coal mine news and latest updates

News tagged with coal mine. Date. 6 hours 12 hours 1 ... of President Joe Biden's administration to battle climate change. ... submitted more ambitious emissions targets to the United Nations ...

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Germany Is a Coal-Burning, Gas-Guzzling Climate Change Hypocrite

Germany is Europe's largest producer and burner of coal, which accounted for 40.3 percent of net power production in 2017: 15.5 percent from hard coal and 24.8 percent from lignite, also known ...

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Big Pit National Coal Museum | Museum Wales

Job-A-Knock tickets, which give you a timed slot for your underground tour, are now available to pre-book, at £5 per person, for tours from Saturday 23 rd July. You can still visit us without a Job-A-Knock ticket but you might have to wait for an underground tour: Pre-book your ticket. Due to unforeseen circumstances we are currently unable to ...

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Tussle over new UK mine embodies fight over coal-related emissions ...

Jul 27, 2022The UK is weighing whether to approve its first deep coal mine in three decades, a controversial £165 million ($199 million) project now facing opposition from an environmental law nonprofit...

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Adani CEO quits with mine still a year away and legal battles to come ...

However, Adani is now facing a new legal threat from landowners in Godda, India, where Adani Power is building a power plant which will use coal from the Carmichael Mine. It also still faces an appeal in the Federal Court from the Australian Conservation Foundation relating to the approval of Carmichael.

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Workers commemorate centennial of the Battle of Blair Mountain

The evictions and murders carried out by the coal barons led one Mingo County police chief, Sid Hatfield, to cross class lines and side with the mine workers. Hatfield participated in a gun battle against union-busting gun thugs from the Baldwin-Felts agency in the town of Matewan, which is fairly depicted in the John Sayles movie with the same ...

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As South Africa clings to coal, a struggle for the right to breathe

Thomas Mnguni often woke to find the windows and floors of his home covered in a layer of black dust. Living between two coal mines and a landfill in Middelburg, South Africa, he and his family ...

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Proposed coal mine will 'decapitate' Grassy Mountain in southern ...

Unanimous Treaty 7 support for a proposed $800-million coal mine in Alberta's Crowsnest Pass is causing concern on the Kainai First Nation. "We will be directly impacted by the coming coal-mining project," said Latasha Calf Robe, a member of the nation south of Calgary also known as Blood Tribe. "There's a lot going on here.".

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Coal in Turkey - Wikipedia

Coal supplies over a quarter of Turkey's primary energy. The heavily subsidised coal industry generates over a third of the country's electricity and emits a third of Turkey's greenhouse gases.. Most coal mined in Turkey is lignite (brown coal), which is more polluting than other types of coal. Turkey's energy policy encourages mining lignite for coal-fired power stations in order to reduce ...

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Thunder In the Mountains: The West Virginia Mine War, 1920-21: Savage ...

The West Virginia mine war of 1920-21, a major civil insurrection of unusual brutality on both sides, even by the standards of the coal fields, involved thousands of union and nonunion miners, state and private police, militia, and federal troops.

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Billionaire Gautam Adani's disputed mine shows ditching coal isn't easy ...

SHARE. Dec 3, 2021. Billionaire Gautam Adani's coal mine in Australia, a project that's become a global emblem for opposition to fossil fuels, is preparing to begin exports after more than a ...

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Carrying coals to Germany: Imports still vital despite sagging ... - DW

The rationale behind this is the far lower price per ton for imports from nations where mining is a lot easier and cost-efficient than it used to be in western Germany's hard coal areas.

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Fighting the Battles, Winning the War - Columbia University

mining. Biggers strongly recommends a new short documentary, The Both of Me, which premiered over the Memorial Day weekend. MTR is a small battle in the world war on pollution and climate change. MTR provides a small part of U.S. coal. U.S. coal is but a fraction of global coal. Coal is only one of the three big

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In a fight over a Colombian coal mine, COVID-19 raises the stakes

The battle pits members of the Wayuu — the largest Indigenous group in Colombia — against the owners of one of the largest coal mines in the world, and at over 270 square miles, the largest ...

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Mapped: The world's coal power plants in 2020 - Carbon Brief

INFOGRAPHICS | March 26. 2020. 6:01. Mapped: The world's coal power plants. Since 2000, the world has doubled its coal-fired power capacity to around 2,045 gigawatts (GW) after explosive growth in China and India. A further 200GW is being built and 300GW is planned. More recently, 268GW has closed due to a wave of retirements across the EU ...

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Resources | Politics and War Wiki | Fandom

Resources are produced and consumed by nations for several functions, improvements, and equipping a war machine. Resources are also the driving force in the world economy and can be traded in the global market for other resources or cash. There are two types of resources, natural and manufactured resources. Natural resources are extracted through their respective mine building improvement with ...

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workers How do i get them to mine gold, coal? - GameFAQs

For American Conquest: Divided Nation on the PC, a GameFAQs Q&A question titled "workers How do i get them to mine gold, coal?".

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Coal - Drummond Co. Drummond Co.

The global demand for energy is ever-increasing, as nations grow and develop and as new power-intensive applications emerge. Today, steam coal is used by utilities to generate electricity, while metallurgical coal is used for either the coking process or in place of steam coal. Drummond has been in the business of mining since our inception in ...

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Reliance Power gets nod to mine more coal from Sasan coal blocks

NEW DELHI: The government has allowed Reliance Power 's Sasan Ultra Mega Power Project (UMPP) to produce additional coal from its Moher and Moher Amlohri coal blocks attached to the project. The project has been allowed to mine coal upto 17.20 million tonne per annum (mtpa) during the current fiscal year, Reliance Power said in a statement.

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The Demise of Coal as the World's Dirtiest Fossil Fuel Is Coming, but ...

Yet hundreds of new coal power plants are still being built, leading U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres last month to urge nations to stop coal financing. Many have pledged to do so, as have ...

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Miners mark 100 years since union battle at Blair Mountain

Among the commemorations was a 45-mile march Sept. 3-5 led by United Mine Workers of America President Cecil Roberts that retraced the route thousands of miners took in 1921 from Marmet, West Virginia, to Blair Mountain in Logan County. Since the late 1800s, coal bosses in Mingo, Logan and McDowell counties in West Virginia had enforced a ...

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People Power: How Montana Stopped the Biggest Coal Mine in North ...

Campaigners are celebrating after defeating plans to build America's largest open pit coal mine, writes Nick Engelfriend. In an epic 'David and Goliath' battle, Montana activists challenged ...

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The selenium battle of Lake Koocanusa - Montana Free Press

But in recent months, a Canadian mining company with big plans to expand its coal mining footprint has thrown a wrench into what appeared to be a settled issue by asserting that state agencies broke Montana law by adopting a standard for Lake Koocanusa of 0.8 micrograms of selenium per liter of water. Over the past nine months, Teck Coal, a ...

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Native American Groups Join Effort Against Coal Mine - The Texas Tribune

Members of several Native American tribes say a coal mine operating on a remote stretch of the Texas-Mexico border threatens sacred ancestral ground, and they are joining long-running attempts by ...

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INSIGHT -Battle from Below: The South African miners fighting climate ...

F our nights a week, Given Zuli packs some food, meets his colleagues at the entrance of an abandoned coal mine in South Africa's eastern Mpumalanga province, and descends into the earth for up to ...

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The Coal Mining Massacre America Forgot - Smithsonian Magazine

The Coal Mining Massacre America Forgot. The mountains of southern West Virginia are riddled with coal—and bullets. Lorraine Boissoneault. April 25, 2017. Child coal miners with mules in Gary ...

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Biden's climate change plan and the jobs battle of the future - CNBC

Jan 31, 2021The Appalachian region experienced three-quarters of the mining job losses in the U.S. in the past decade and approximately 30,000 direct coal mining job net losses across eastern Kentucky, West ...

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Battle from below: The South African miners fighting ... - Citypress

Zuli is one of thousands of small-scale, illegal miners across South Africa - a number believed to be on the rise as unemployment spikes in a brittle economy - who make a living selling coal collected in abandoned, derelict mine shafts. But Zuli is also part of a growing environmental movement in the coal-rich province, campaigning for a shift ...

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Battle Lines Drawn Over Indian Mega Mine | Inter Press Service

MELBOURNE, Dec 30 2016 (IPS) - Among those leading the fight against the massive Indian-owned Carmichael coal project in Australia's Queensland state is 21-year-old Murrawah Johnson of the Wangan and Jagalingou aboriginal people, the traditional owners of the land where the proposed mine is to be located.

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UK considers opening coal mine in Cumbria to reduce dependence on ...

The government has until July 7 to decide on whether or not to go ahead with the Cumbria coal mine. It should be mentioned that the coking coal from the mine will not be for general energy usage but mainly support the process of steel-making in the UK. The move to open the Cumbria coal mine stems from Johnson's willingness to "wean itself off ...

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Labor Wars in the U.S. | American Experience | PBS

Martinsburg, WV, July 16, 1877, PD. December 4, 1874. Mine operators in Pennsylvania reduce wages, and 10,000 miners go out on strike. The Molly Maguires, a group of mostly Irish miners, plan ...

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Mine Warfare in the Civil War - The Campaign for the National Museum of ...

In the long-running Seminole Wars (1816-1858) in Florida, he had experimented with the use of mines against the Seminole warriors. Shortly before the Peninsula campaign, Rains, a North Carolinian, was engaged in mining efforts in the James and the York Rivers to disrupt the Union Navy. He was well suited for this unusual mission, having ...

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Rugby World Cup 2015: Wallabies David Pocock in coal mine battle - news

Pocock is among 61 prominent Australians calling for a stop to new coal mines in an open letter ahead of December's United Nations climate change conference in Paris.

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Taliban Wage War Over Coal Mining in Afghanistan - Foreign Policy

At the heart of the dispute is a battle over coal mines, and who gets to profit from them, trapping local residents in the middle. Since the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan last August, which ...

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