A federal jury has cleared four former coal company officials who were accused of skirting dust rules in two underground Kentucky mines. The jury in U.S. District Court in Louisville deliberated Wednesday for about two hours before returning not guilty verdicts. The trial was a rare attempt to prosecute coal company officials on criminal charges.

Nine open pit coal mines encircle this city of 90,000 people in Russia's Kuzbass region, the epicentre of the country's coal production, 3,700 kilometres east …

The government on Thursday launched the fourth round of auction of coal mines for commercial mining under which 99 blocks have been put on sale. With coal mines rolling over from third round of commercial auction and second attempt of second tranche of commercial auctions, there will be total 99 mines on offer, the coal ministry said in a statement. ...

The state-owned power producer, Tenughat Vidyut Nigam Limited (TVNL) in Bokaro, is surviving with a one day stock and getting coal rakes on a daily basis to feed its plant. The CMD of TVNL, Anil ...

This was how Aura Pérez, a resident of the village of Tabaco in Colombia's remote Guajira peninsula, described her home before it and the rest of the village was razed by Cerrejón Zona Norte, the largest open-pit coal mine in the world. Cerrejón is a huge, gaping gash 30 miles long by 5 miles wide in the hot, dry landscape.

In order to excavate the coal, nearly 3,300 acres had been identified initially. Apart from forest land and vested land, little more than 2,267 acres is …

Coal mining in the Guajira peninsula has severely disrupted the lives of the Wayúu people, an indigenous group of approximately 120,000 who have lived in the northern borderlands of Colombia and Venezuela (including on the Guajira peninsula), since before the Spanish conquest.

"The People Behind Colombian Coal" is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in international energy issues, human rights, and the unreported dark side of globalization. This book is a particularly valuable resource due to its multi-faceted approach to the El Cerrejon coal mine, the world's largest open-pit coal operation.

During 1919 there occurred i2 fatal accidents in the coal mines and 6 in the metal-liferous mines of British Columbia. The persons employed numbered 5,966 and 3.778, respectively, making the fatality rates 2.013 and 1 .588 per 1,000 persons employed. The corresponding rates for 1918 were 5.159 for coal mining and 3.66 for metal mining.

A 2012 study led by the NAACP found that "coal power plants tend to be disproportionately located in low-income communities and communities of color." The study found that the six million people who lived within three miles of a coal plant had a lower average income ($18,400) and were more likely to be people of color (39%) than the ...

Cerrejón, the largest open-pit coal mine in Latin America, has operated in the department of La Guajira, Colombia since the 1980s. A former Exxon subsidiary, Cerrejón was acquired by Anglo American, BHP Billiton, and Glencore in the early 2000s. Today, Cerrejón is one of the top three coal-producing companies in Colombia, along with Drummond ...

Four coal miners were buried alive when walls of a 50-meter deep pit collapsed in Gare Gittim area in East Garo Hills district of Meghalaya, police said on Thursday. Shevre murder case: Accused ...

Coal Mines And Communities In Colombia: The Salem Connection Published by MAC on Coal Mines and Communities in Colombia: The Salem Connection see first Salem City Council Resolution on the Cerrejon Mine in Colombia (27 June 2002) by Aviva Chomsky at Salem State College. Prepared for presentation at Graduate Research Day, April …

But people in my (Chomsky's) community of Salem, Massachusetts, are trying to create a human connection of solidarity that challenges the economic connection of exploitation. People here learned that some of our coal …

In August 2007, two Guatemalan Mam anti-mining activists from Colotenango, Huehuetenango and San Miguel Ixtahuacán, San Marcos, joined a Witness for Peace (WfP) delegation to La Guajira, in northern Colombia, to meet with Wayúu communities affected by the world's largest open-pit coal mine, El Cerrejón. WfP is a U.S. based grassroots organization that focuses on …

William Turner on Black Life in Appalachia. Host Renee Shaw talks with scholar, sociologist and author William Turner about his new book "Harlan Renaissance: Stories of Black Life in Appalachian Coal Towns" which chronicles the area's vibrant Black communities during coal's final post-war boom years. S17 E13 Length 27:54 Premiere: 11.21.21.

and Adhunik Power & Natural Resources are among seven companies that have submitted bids for four coal blocks put up for sale under "second attempt" of auction process for 11 mines for commercial mining. These coal mines were also offered in the first attempt launched on March 25 this year and had fetched single bids. "A total of 7 companies have …

Salem State College History Professor Avi Chomsky will show slides, describe and analyse. what was learned on a trip to this coal-mining region of Colombia in August, 2006. Thursday, October 12 at 7pm. at the First Church in Salem 316 Essex Street. How can you help these victims of our energy policies?

Focusing on human rights issues in coal mines in Columbia, S.A. which provide coal for the Salem Harbor Generating Station. Sept 2001 - Salem Alliance For the Environment (SAFE). Focusing on reduction of greenhouse gases in Salem. 2000 - Alliance for Healthy Tomorrow. Founding member, focusing on protection of children's health.

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A devastating explosion in the Siberian coal mine Thursday left dozens of miners and rescuers dead about 250 meters (820 feet) underground, Russian officials said. HOGP In this image taken from video, rescuers stand near paramedic tents near the Listvyazhnaya coal mine, outside of the Siberian city of Kemerovo, about 3,000 kilometres (1,900 ...

An unremarked sub-story is the precarious state of the high-rock metallurgical coal mines dotting the British Columbia side of the Continental Divide. The mines were already under intense international political pressure to cease polluting transboundary waters with selenium. Teck Resources spent C$1 billion on a treatment plant that failed.

Coal Mines and Communities in Colombia: The Salem Connection The United Steel Workers of America file a lawsuit against US-based Drummond Co. Coal Mine Accidents Underreported to Protect Livelihoods Taking It to Drummond: Paramilitaries and Mining Companies in Colombia

The Elk Valley steelmaking coal mines in southeastern British Columbia are a major economic driver in the province. An independent economic study by Resource Works found that Teck's steelmaking coal mines in the Elk Valley: x Spent over $1 billion on goods and services in 2013 throughout British Columbia with nearly

Courtney joined the Crag Law Center in 2008 as a Staff Attorney. Much of her work at Crag has focused on protecting the health of coastal rivers, from gravel mining in the rivers of the south coast, including the Chetco and the Rogue, to addressing proposals for fossil fuel exports along the Columbia at Astoria.

18 Nov. 2021. 12:30 p.m. By Warren Cornwall. Europe's tiny silver-studded blue butterfly is finding a new home in industrial quarries as grasslands once grazed by livestock give way to forests. Ross Hoddinott/Minden Pictures. It's not every day that mining wins acclaim for its ecological benefits. But a new study suggests rock quarries in ...

The Cerrejon coal mine in the Department (province) of La Guajira in northern Colombia is one of the largest opencast coal mines in the world. The mine is operated by three companies who all have headquarters in London, BHP Billiton, Anglo American plc and Xstrata plc (even if BHP Billiton and Xstrata are joint-listed).

Coal Mines and Communities in Colombia: The Salem Connection. とワユのについて。 What's the Cost of Your Coal? アルマンド・プレス・アラウジョとレメディオス・ファジャルドが、 20025セーラムでったのビデオ。 Coal: The Ties that Bind.

Moreover, many of these projects—like the coal mines in Colombia—operate in remote regions with little state presence to begin with. As they have for over a century, multinationals establish company towns and take on many state roles—but they privilege their own private, rather than any public, interest.

nicole v basta is a poet with proud familial roots in the coal mines and garment factories of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Her poems have found homes in Ploughshares, Waxwing, Crazyhorse, Epiphany, The Journal, Tinderbox, Ninth Letter, etc.Her first chapbook V was the winner of The New School's Annual Contest. nicole's permanent address for the last few years …

Salem City Council Resolution on the Cerrejon Mine in Colombia Good Readings on Precaution Campaign Leaders from La Guajira Tour the United States Victory at Tabaco, Colombia Victory at Tabaco - 18th June 2002 Coal Mines and Communities in Colombia: The Salem Connection

It was announced in September 2011 that Cerrejon coal mine, which owns Colombia's largest coal mine, projected it will export about 32 million mt in 2011, up from 30.2 million mt from 2010.

Aviva Chomsky is Professor of History and Coordinator of Latin American Studies at Salem State College in Salem, Massachusetts. She is the author of "They Take Our Jobs!": And 20 Other Myths about Immigration and West Indian Workers and the United Fruit Company in Costa Rica, 1870–1940; editor of The People behind Colombian Coal; and a coeditor of The Cuba Reader …

Coal Mines and Communities in Colombia: The Salem Connection Published by MAC on . Coal Mines and Communities in Colombia: The Salem Connection. see first Salem City Council Resolution on the Cerrejon Mine in Colombia (27 June 2002) by Aviva Chomsky at Salem State College. Prepared for presentation at Graduate Research Day, April …

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., walks to a caucus lunch at the Capitol in Washington, Dec. 17, 2021. Manchin said Sunday, Dec. 19, 2021 he cannot back a $2 trillion social safety net bill, dealing a ...