It would also offer large environmental benefits because gas emits few conventional pollutants, and only about half as much carbon dioxide as the main transitional alternative: continued coal burning.

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There is also an exploration unit engaged in tie-ups with other mining companies to prospect for gold, diamond and coal (its main tin reserves at Bangka are expected to last only another decade).

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Indeed, coal would be the main fuel of the British economy for the next 350 years.

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Going back to the history of the European project, she emphasized that the main factors of development are no longer coal and steel as they were at the time of the fathers of Europe, but social and intellectual capital.

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Any policy to reduce heat-trapping pollution will inevitably target the main sources of Americans' energy: the coal burned by power plants for electricity and the oil that is refined to run automobiles.

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The main pollutant, sulphur dioxide, was linked to coal burning which was said to have reached exceptional levels.

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"If coal fell, which is one of the main sources of employment around this area, everything would suffer, " Sedgmer said while sitting on her front porch.

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Indonesia enjoys a big cost advantage over its main competitor, Malaysia, as it does over Australia in coal for power stations, another commodity where demand, led by China and India, is expected to grow hugely.

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TXU, Texas's main power-generator, led the company to abandon eight out of 11 planned coal-fired power stations because the private equity firm concerned, Texas Pacific, wanted to square the environmental movement.

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