The considerable increase in revenue per ton was driven by improving market prices with prices for metallurgical coal and industrial coal shipped in Q1 2011 increasing 53% and 12%, respectively.
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We created a print literate workforce with the communication skills to organize a First Industrial Revolution driven by coal and steam power.
It's trying to sell its solar product to industrial customers, including coal-fired plants, which would use both the sun and coal to make steam.
But Republicans still have the power to block climate legislation in the Senate, especially with some Democrats from coal and industrial states also ambivalent about cap-and-trade.
The strongest economies of the high-income world ( Norway, Canada, Australia, some Persian Gulf countries) produce oil and gas, coal, industrial minerals or food for the expanding global marketplace.
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There will be an exciting programme where you will visit key attractions within Blaenavon Industrial Landscape such as Big Pit National Coal Museum, Blaenavon Ironworks, visit the industrial landscape, and the Blaenavon World Heritage Centre.
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But just as the industrial revolution was built on coal, the post-second-world-war economy was built on cheap oil.
"When we compare changes in the black carbon to changes in these other indicators, it is clear that most of the increases in black carbon in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, particularly in winter and spring, resulted from industrial emissions - probably from coal burning, " he added.
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That is vastly more than the 250m tonnes that all the coal plants and other industrial smokestacks in the region produce a year.
Operating about 20, 000 route miles of rail in the U.S., transportation company Norfolk Southern Corp. serves as a major rail carrier of coal, automotive and industrial products.
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By a happy accident, this concentrated industrial activity in the regions where coal was readily available, and a potato-driven population boom provided ample workers for the new factories.
Her industrial legacy in Wales, particularly the coal mining communities of the south Wales valleys, has drawn much debate.
Slow growth in demand from the U.S. will be a drag on price appreciation for industrial metals, oil, natural gas and coal.
She said that linking Dusseldorf and Cardiff was a "reasonable match", and that both regions shared similar industrial histories in areas such as steel and coal.
Across town, the abandoned detritus of an industrial past and the ugly scars of the coal mines that still drive the archipelago's economy sit uneasily against the backdrop of a pristine wilderness protected by some of the world's strictest environmental legislation.
Consider, for example, a spate of new studies that have found a rather convincing correlation between the presence of small particulate matter (PM2.5, the fine particles blown into the air by road traffic, coal-fired power plants, industrial manufacturing, and residential wood fuel combustion) and both obesity and diabetes.
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"We can put up a coal plant and sell the power to industrial estates, " says Babar.
That led to one of the most bitter industrial disputes in British history, her standoff against striking coal miners in the 1980s.
Unlike the situation Edward Heath faced in 1973, the government had built up substantial stocks of coal at power stations in advance of the industrial action.
Ms Warren meanwhile is facing questions about her legal work to help an industrial conglomerate fight a requirement that it pay for retired coal miners' healthcare.
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We recognise that ex-coal miners and steel workers can work in modern industrial centres.
Specifically, CSX saw revenue per unit for the food and consumer segment (within agricultural) and for the automotive segment (within industrial) grow by 10% and 12% respectively, while coal revenues per it expanded by 19% while intermodal grew15%.
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If you believe as I do that industrial production remains strong for the foreseeable future you want to overweight met coal plays like Peabody and Arch.
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Since oil is easily substituted for natural gas in many industrial and electrical turbines, prices of the two commodities tend to be correlated (coal less so).
In the 1970s industrial users could switch to oil or electricity, and utilities had other choices, including coal, hydroelectric and even nuclear power.
In the industrial era, cities boomed because expensive transport made it attractive for firms to locate near coal deposits, waterways and each other.
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