By creating a context of pressure, I can exact more preciseness, more brilliance. It’s just as if coal is subjected to enormous pressure, you can get a diamond.
The Obama administration’s EPA ruling to cut carbon emissions at power plants is a direct affront to workers in states like Alabama, which not only rely upon coal-fired plants to generate most of their electricity but are also home to thousands of coal industry jobs.
Then there was the whole concept of coal mining, which is a culture unto itself, the most dangerous occupation in the world, and which draws and develops a certain kind of man.
I’ll be the first one to tell you I burn coal… That fossil generation and the nuclear generation, frankly, is necessary in order for me to provide power.
You can’t turn on your television without seeing these advertisements about clean coal, clean tar sands and the claim that there’s more jobs associated with fossil fuels than other industries. That’s of course not true. But they’re hammering that into the voters’ heads.
After all, game shows are not like working in a coal mine.
When you declare a ‘war on coal’ from a regulatory perspective, the question has to be asked: where’s that in the statute? Where did Congress empower the EPA to declare a war on coal?
My older brothers would scour the railway tracks for lumps of fallen coal to keep us warm and we’d sleep, top to tail, three to a bed. So we were seriously poor in every way except for one. We were rich in love.
Nearly all of our existing power sources are generators which use a heat cycle. This includes our coal, oil, and gas fired utilities, our automobiles, trucks, and trains, and even our nuclear fission utility power plants.
Who deserves more credit than the wife of a coal miner? Mother was one.
The secret to it all is just to enjoy what you’re doing. This is not working at the coal face, this is not sweeping behind a restaurant. It’s work, but it’s not work. It gives me a different type of energy. I’m grateful for that.
To me, all business is the same it’s just the product that’s different and you can have a diamond in your hand, but if you don’t market it correctly, it just becomes another piece of coal.
Coal ash, the hazardous byproduct of burning coal to produce power, is a particularly insidious legacy of the nation’s dependence on coal.
I couldn’t go off and leave Stephen. Coals of fire would have been heaped on my head if I had.
You can’t take a coal miner making $95,000 a year, the only work in these parts where you can support a family without having to hold down three jobs at once… and tell them, ‘You can make minimum wage,’ or, ‘We can give you job training for jobs that don’t exist in West Virginia.’
When it comes to global warming, coal is the gorilla in the room.
The average life expectancy of a celebrity is 20 years less than someone working in a coal mine.
For better or worse, the bulk of coal industry jobs are in Appalachia – and when that coal is gone, so are the jobs.
Britain needs a diverse energy mix – home grown renewables, new nuclear, a switch from dirty coal to cleaner gas, and, when the technology is ready, carbon capture and storage. Diversity will keep the lights on and ensure we go green at the lowest possible cost.
When you talk about the coal communities we need a senator to protect the benefits these coal miners need and deserve and earned, because coal powered our country in the 20th Century.
A coal mine greets you with only one sentiment, then hammers it: ‘This is not a place for people. This is not a place for people. This is not a place for people’.
The coal miners are working. But there’s more than just coal miners in West Virginia.
Remember in 1973 the same science chatter said that the coming Ice Age is going to occur, we’re going to lose millions of people. And the politicians knew how to solve it, they just didn’t have the courage to solve it; they were going to put coal dust on the Arctic.
I do a job and am lucky enough to do a job that I love, but it is a hard one. I’m not saying it is as hard as working in a coal mine, but it is still difficult in a different way. Sometimes you have to go through very strong emotional journeys and then come back to yourself. And that can be difficult to control.
My grandfather, who brought me up, was a coal miner. I visited the mines with him. I remember it vividly. It was horrible. I’m glad I didn’t go into the family business.
I know I’m not a coal miner, but I do long hours and I never complain, and there is nowhere else I’d rather be. So, yeah, that’s how I’d define myself. I want to do it right, and prove people wrong once and for all about the myth of child stars.
The atmosphere does not fathom whether CO2 comes from U.S. oil or Chinese coal, nor do hurricanes lose force because the Heritage Foundation doesn’t believe global warming is a problem. Living systems operate on laws over which we have no say.
I didn’t even watch the soaps when I was in them because it’s like a coal miner coming home and staring at the coal scuttle – I was never a great lover of watching myself act.
Despite the frequent use of coal miners as a potent political symbol, coal jobs are disappearing – and they’re not coming back.
I’m the only candidate which has a policy about how to bring economic opportunity – using clean, renewable energy as the key – into coal country, because we’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.
India doesn’t take responsibility for the problems that the world is facing because of thermal coal.
The industrial revolution in England was only made possible through intensified agriculture and the use of coal for manufacturing, which delivered far more energy for far less labor.
Of course we have to use coal… the renewable energy sources will supplement the supply from coal.
I left school when I was 16; then I worked for my father, who was a welder. And I was a welder for three years, you know, welder of fabrication, metal ’cause it was a big industrial town, Sheffield. It was much steel and coal and stuff like that.
Compared to coal, which generates almost half the electricity in the United States, natural gas is indeed a cleaner, less polluting fuel. But compared to, say, solar, it’s filthy. And of course there is nothing renewable about natural gas.
Coal, oil and natural gas have lit homes and powered machinery for centuries, driving civilization forward. But as human development accelerated, the unsustainability of such energy became apparent.
My father and brothers were coal miners.
I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don’t know one who wouldn’t fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink.
Canceling the climate pact will loudly demonstrate Trump’s willingness to fight – an important step for the White House because, on a concrete level, few tools are available to revive the coal industry.
At times you feel like you’re the only voice speaking out to improve the working conditions of people, whether it’s to be able to collectively bargain, to get adequate pay, to know that you can come home safe out of a coal mine.
The coal mining industry is very destructive and it doesn’t have to be.
Eating coals of fire has always been one of the sensational feats of the Fire Kings, as it is quite generally known that charcoal burns with an extremely intense heat.
Like the canary in the coal mine, the climate changes already evident in the Arctic are a call to action.
Coal is cheap, but up to what extent are we going to allow coal plants to operate?
In the world of energy politics, the sudden vanishing of the word ‘coal’ is a remarkable and unprecedented event.
She felt Britain should not be so dependent on coal. She was in favour of building up nuclear energy to break the dependence on coal, and the main opposition to nuclear came from the environment movement. Mrs. Thatcher thought she could trap them with the carbon emissions argument.
Mountaintop removal coal operations enrich only a handful of elites while impoverishing everyone else in their proximity.
My father moved out to Park City in in the mid-’70s and lived in a Winnebago behind a hippie joint called Utah Coal & Lumber that was one of only two or three restaurants at that time. Park City was a sleepy little mining town, with not a condo in sight.
Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.
The blockade against American natural-gas exports needs to be lifted, and the war on coal needs to be ended, so that, instead of being wasted to replace perfectly good coal-generated electricity, our natural-gas exports can be expanded even further.
I don’t meet stockbrokers or carpenters or coal miners; I spend all day with actors, composers and photographers.
We need to diversify our economy, but I also think we still have a future in coal.
Writing was like digging coal. I sweat blood. The spell is on me.
Fertile soil, level plains, easy passage across the mountains, coal, iron, and other metals imbedded in the rocks, and a stimulating climate, all shower their blessings upon man.
If I’d not been a coal miner in the past, getting up very early, I wouldn’t have been able to have done what I’ve been doing.
