Word: coaling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...cross the line face swift punishment. Tran Luong is one of the country's so-called Gang of Five contemporary artists who first gained international notice in the 1990s for his underwater abstracts. Lately, he has concentrated on performance and video art, documenting the lives of coal miners and street children left out of Vietnam's experiments with the free market. For the past few years, Luong has also encouraged young artists to explore challenging social themes instead of pumping out bland but commercially successful landscapes. Two years ago, he tried to take a group of students to a contemporary...
Though his original bill called for an 8% royalty (in contrast, companies that lease federal lands to produce crude oil, natural gas and surface-mined coal pay the government a royalty of 12.5% of the current market value of the commodity), in a recent amendment, Rahall suggested restricting the fee to new mines, and exempting existing mining operations - a move that frustrated environmental groups. After a committee vote taken last Thursday, the bill would instead oblige existing mines to pay lower royalties of 4%; new mines, 8%. "We were disappointed," said Lauren Pagel, legislative advisor with Earthworks, a nonprofit dedicated...
...enactment in 1872, the U.S. government has given away more than $245 billion in mineral reserves through patenting or royalty-free mining, says Rep. Nick Rahall, the West Virginia Democrat who is behind the new bill. Compare that, he says, to the $35 billion the Treasury has reaped from coal, oil and gas produced on federal lands between 1994 and 2001 alone. "So with that scenario," says Rahall, "we are indeed Uncle Sucker...
...damage already incurred in the U.S., and one-third to help local communities adversely affected by mining operations. "We're trying to put some fair return to the American taxpayer for the use of their land," says Rahall, the new chairman of the House Interior Subcommittee. "Whether it's coal or gold mining, there are social and economic impacts that are just the same, which is why we ought to be treating all these extractive industries the same...
...term is "leapfrog" - or as Davis said later, "super leapfrog." Desperate to keep juice flowing to their rapidly growing economies - in India especially, blackouts remain a fact of life - the big developing nations are adding electrical capacity fast, cheap and dirty. China alone is building a coal plant a week for the next five years, locking in vast levels of carbon dioxide emissions. It would be a big step just to get these economies to the same efficiency and relative cleanliness of developed-world energy systems. Coal plants in Japan, for instance, operate with an efficiency of 40% or better...