Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...martial law violation so far, Ewa Kubasiewicz was given ten years in jail for organizing a strike at a Gdansk merchant marine college where she was a student. A Katowice court gave jail terms of three to four years to four alleged organizers of a strike at the Wujek coal mine, where at least seven civilians were killed in clashes with police on Dec. 16. The provincial prosecutor in Gdansk said that Solidarity's second-ranking leader, Miroslaw Krupinski, would be tried for trying to organize a national strike committee from the Lenin Shipyard after military rule was imposed...
...show of summary justice, civilian courts promptly sentenced 101 youths involved in the Gdansk riots to jail terms ranging from one to three months. In the Silesian military zone, meanwhile, eleven miners charged with organizing strikes at the Ziemowit coal mine in December received harsh sentences of three to seven years. In the northern town of Slupsk, six Solidarity members were given one-to 4½-year sentences for continuing their union activities...
Certain regions of the U.S. have always seemed to lure venturesome people more than others. At the beginning of the 20th century, many automotive pioneers came to Detroit. There they found a deep-waterport and a good railroad system that gave easy access to supplies of coal and iron and a convenient way to ship their new cars back to local markets. They also found a prosperous wagon-making industry with a pool of skilled craftsmen, as well as a bustling atmosphere that encouraged innovation and manufacturing...
...discovered in the north of the country. President Giscard d'Eataing's government was ecstatic. In particular, the minister of energy was gleeful when he pointed out that "now we will produce one percent of all the gasoline we need." He was completely serious. The supplies of France's coal are dwindling, and the product is of low quality--un-competitive. As for natural gas, while France now covers about 30 percent of its consumption with domestic production, the critically important Lacq reserves are slowly but very surely being exhausted. At the same time, the government projects that the proportion...
...utilities have ordered only 13 new reactors and have cancelled orders for 50, mainly because of the rising cost of building the plants. Charles Komanoff, a New York energy economist, argues that the capital investment required to build a reactor is almost twice that required to build a coal plant. Soaring costs come partly from the need for greater safety in the wake of Three Mile Island. But more important is the declining demand for electricity, which not only reduces corporate revenues needed to finance plant construction, but makes Wall Street wary of investing in utilities...