Even though India has great coal reserves, it has trouble accessing it because much of it is located in population centers.
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Many Cleveland-Cliffs investors were unhappy that their iron ore play was getting a great deal of coal exposure.
But once the gas is out of the ground, it is a great deal cleaner than coal.
In fact, while the Chinese produce cheap products (those not recalled) in a manner about as polluting as the coal-powered Great Britain in the 1800s, U.S. auto manufacturing can boast the cleanest manufacturing plants in the world.
Fossil fuel, such as oil and coal, are in such great demand because of their constant availability they are there when people and businesses need them.
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Plenty of power as long as the Fireman was feeding coal into the Firebox at a great rate.
And some additional, much less happy news from Australia, as Unesco and environmentalists warn that climate change and large-scale coal mining may lead to the wholesale destruction of the Great Barrier Reef.
In particular, coal plants are the largest source of mercury pollution in the Great Lakes.
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Mr Simplot himself, an avowed lover of skiing, duck shooting and the great outdoors, was attacked in the 1970s for his support for new coal-fired electricity plants along the Snake river and for a scheme to generate hydro-power by diverting water from another river into a vast underground tube.
In the last 200 years Coal, Oil and Nuclear has given energy to many worldwide and great power and wealth to only a few.
While the big deepwater ships that carry huge quantities of the nation's iron ore, coal and other goods are able to steam the deep waters of the Great Lakes as they always have, they must carry ever lighter loads to avoid grounding on the increasingly shallow harbors where they unload.
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"The S.S. Badger, the filthiest ship on the Great Lakes, has been given two more years to dump hundreds of tons of dangerous coal ash into Lake Michigan, " Durbin said in a statement.
Freight included coal, corn, stone, iron, timber, rope and chalk and later building materials for the Great Western Railway.
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