Officers suggested that the issue could be raised with the deputy gaveller, a unique position that exists only in the Forest of Dean to oversee the mining of coal and iron ore. Forest of Dean ...

25,000 Welsh workers left mining for the armed forces and other jobs between 1938 and 1941. The coal industry moved ... such as Kent and the Forest of Dean where labour shortages were more acute.

More than a third of Germany's electricity is still produced by burning coal - mostly ... it left now. The forest sits atop one of the largest coalfields in Europe and since mining started in ...

DENVER— Five conservation groups sued the Trump administration late Tuesday and called on a federal judge to block approval of Arch Coal’s West Elk mine expansion, which would invade the wildlands of ...

Former Mining Extension Director Jim Dean and current Mining Extension Director Joshua Brady reflected recently on the ...

A coal mining proposal has divided two neighbouring ... and it needs to be looked after well in order for that to continue,” he said. Dean Ward is the Crowsnest Pass councillor who proposed ...

Mountaintop removal is a radical form of coal mining in which ... but only 3 percent of former mine sites are developed. Surface mining destroys the potential for development based on tourism and ...

Chhattisgarh Forest and Climate Change Minister Kedar Kashyap has defended coal mining and other developmental projects in ...

CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (WBOY) — A lawsuit claims that the Forest Service allowed a private coal company to pollute rivers in the Cherry River watershed, home of the endangered candy darter fish which ...

Global mining activity is increasingly ... which compound habitat loss and forest degradation.” WRI’s analysis also found that the demand for coal, iron and other metals has increased by ...