Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Indians across the West are asking for--and getting--hiring quotas at mining and drilling sites, special training programs, and education funds from the corporations they sell their resources to. In coal-rich Wyoming, tribes are renegotiating leases to get a larger share of the selling price for coal...
...surface of things, then, seems rosy. The tribes own, altogether, 52 million acres of land with 5 percent of the nation's oil and gas reserves, 470 billion tons of high-quality coal and half of the nation's uranium supply, valued at $400 billion. The southwestern Navahos, with 160,000 members, are making $55 million a year from mining and pumping petroleum...
...already cost some $1.4 billion and is not expected to be completed until 1986, eleven years behind schedule. Taking this into account, CG&E and the other two power companies building Zimmer announced at week's end that they will convert the plant to a coal-burning facility...
Under Watt, many of these concerns were either ignored or minimized. Interior officials liked to point out that natural underwater seeps off California's Coal Oil Point, near Santa Barbara, alone released at least four times as much oil as the 5,700 bbl. spilled annually in offshore production within U.S. waters. In July 1981, as a matter of highest national priority, Watt announced a program to lease nearly all of the outer shelf, a total of a billion acres, in five years. He offered up huge tracts (as much as 40 million acres at a time...
...concrete results of Zhao's visit-two bilateral agreements-were not major breakthroughs. The first extended an earlier accord that established the exchange of scientific information and personnel. The second paved the way for more specific agreements on joint development of offshore oil, coal and other sectors of the Chinese economy. Said one U.S. official: "It tells Chinese foreign-trading companies that it is all right to 'buy American...