What Are We Fighting For?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bryan T. McNeil
Keyword(s):  
Coal Mining ◽  
Coal Industry ◽  
Symbiotic Relationship ◽  
Mountaintop Removal ◽  
Mountaintop Removal Mining ◽  
First Time

This chapter discusses how knowledge of the mountains and getting along in them has taken on renewed importance with the advance of mountaintop removal coal mining and restructuring in the coal industry. For generations, living in the mountains and mining the coal beneath them combined to become the distinctive markers of life in the Appalachian coalfields. The relentless expansion of mountaintop removal mining across the landscape since the late 1980s disrupted this symbiotic relationship between life inside and outside the mines. The spread of mountaintop removal brought a dilemma to dinner tables and living rooms across the region: are they coal people or mountain people? For the first time, many people felt compelled to choose because the two sources of identity, intertwined for so long, now seemed to be in stark opposition.

scholarly journals Colliery Deputies in the British Coal Industry Before Nationalization

1994 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 383-414 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Ackers
Keyword(s):  
Coal Mining ◽  
Trade Union ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Coal Industry ◽  
National Union ◽  
Labour Movement ◽  
Labour Process ◽  
History Of ◽  
First Time ◽  
Union History

SummaryThis article challenges the militant and industrial unionist version of British coal mining trade union history, surrounding the Miners' Federation of Great Britain and the National Union of Mineworkers, by considering, for the first time, the case of the colliery deputies' trade union. Their national Federation was formed in 1910, and aimed to represent the three branches of coal mining supervisory management: the deputy (or fireman, or examiner), overman and shotfirer. First, the article discusses the treatment of moderate and craft traditions in British coal mining historiography. Second, it shows how the position of deputy was defined by changes in the underground labour process and the legal regulation of the industry. Third, it traces the history of deputies' union organization up until nationalization in 1947, and the formation of the National Association of Colliery Overmen, Deputies and Shotfirers (NACODS). The article concludes that the deputies represent a mainstream tradition of craft/professional identity and industrial moderation, in both the coal industry and the wider labour movement.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bryan T. McNeil
Keyword(s):  
Coal Mining ◽  
Social Resources ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Coal Industry ◽  
Local Effects ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Mountaintop Removal ◽  
The Social ◽  
Regional History

This introductory chapter sheds light on mountaintop removal coal mining and the ways people have reacted to it, including reimagining profound social and personal ideas like identity, history, and landscape. From a different perspective, it looks at the social processes that help create and continue to justify a monster like mountaintop removal, and about the social resources communities assemble to combat those processes. Conflicts of this sort are often associated with globalization. The chapter reveals how people experience in their daily lives the local effects of global processes. In their opposition to mountaintop removal and other coal industry practices, citizen activists narrate a revised version of local and regional history, in order to situate themselves and their position in relation to the black rock and its industry that had fed them for generations.

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF COAL MINING

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Наталья Алексеевна Бойко ◽  
Наталья Владимировна Ромашева
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Organizational Structure ◽  
Coal Mining ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Coal Industry ◽  
Coal Production ◽  
Atmospheric Air

Представлена характеристика угольной отрасли России по таким направлениям как организационная структура, объем и регионы добычи, потребители угля. Выявлены положительные тенденции, определены проблемы в развитии угольной промышленности. Исследованы негативное воздействие угольного производство на такие компоненты окружающей среды, как атмосферный воздух, водные ресурсы, земная поверхность. The characteristic of the Russian coal industry in such areas as the organizational structure, volume and regions of production, coal consumers has been presented. Positive trends and problems in the development of the coal industry have been identified. The negative impact of coal production on environmental components such as atmospheric air, water, the earth’s surface has been investigated.

scholarly journals The development of the socio-cultural space of the coal-mining region as a factor of human resources retention

2021 ◽  
Vol 315 ◽  
pp. 04014
Author(s):  
Natalia Kostiuk ◽  
Tatiana Panina ◽  
Khash-Erdene Sambalkhundev
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Coal Mining ◽  
Coal Industry ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Sample Population ◽  
Cultural Space ◽  
Main Method ◽  
Mining Region ◽  
Building Activities

The article presents an analysis of the problem of human resource retention in the coal-mining region. It is emphasized that along with the factors of economic development it is advisable to take into account the socio-cultural needs and preferences of employees to ensure the preservation of human resources and the development of human capital on this basis. The article substantiates the need to rely on the actual socio-cultural needs of the subjects of professional activity when building activities for the development of the socio-cultural space of the coal-mining region. The article analyzes the implementation of strategic measures for the creation of the Siberian Cluster of Arts from the point of view of the development of the socio-cultural space of the region for the retention of human resources. The empirical part of the article is presented by the results of the study of socio-cultural needs, leisure preferences and the assessment of the attractiveness of the factors of living in Kuzbass by employees of the coal industry enterprises of the region. The sample population included 93 respondents living in the following cities: Kemerovo, Berezovskiy, Kiselevsk, Novokuznetsk, Polysaevo, and Prokopyevsk. The main method of collecting information was a survey conducted through GoogleForms. The analysis uses methods of mathematical statistics, quantitative and qualitative analysis of the results, and analysis of the significance of socio-cultural needs for the respondents.

The Trend toward Total Quality Managment in Australian Coal Mining

1995 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 331-340
Author(s):  
J.T. Jeffreys
Keyword(s):  
Coal Mining ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Coal Industry ◽  
Total Quality ◽  
Analysis And Evaluation ◽  
Competitive Edge ◽  
The Face ◽  
Coal Market ◽  
Australian Coal ◽  
Traditional Manufacturing

The paper examines the trends and techniques now being adopted by the Australian coal mining industry to improve efficiency and competitiveness in the face of an increasingly difficult international and domestic coal market. Quality Assurance certification to internationally accepted standards has been gained by some operators whilst many more companies are implementing varied forms of Total Quality Control concepts. These concepts now so well established in traditional manufacturing industries, have not previously been associated with the vagaries of the coal industry but are now being pursued by many in an effort to gain or retain a competitive edge. The paper also explains some of the actual processes being undertaken by the mining companies and outlines some of the systems being developed and utilised to undertake preliminary analysis and evaluation of existing and proposed management systems prior to implementing TQC systems.

The Role of Drones in Anti-Mountaintop Removal Activism

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-67
Author(s):  
Aron Douglas Massey
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Environmental Activism ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Mountaintop Removal ◽  
Appalachian Mountain ◽  
Mountaintop Removal Mining

This research project examines the usefulness of drones in environmental activism, especially within the fight against mountaintop removal mining in Appalachia. The paper examines the tactics of Coal River Mountain Watch and the Appalachian Mountain Patrol, anti-MTR activists that use drone surveillance to enhance their fight against this destructive practice. The use of drones increases the complexity of strategies employed by Appalachian activists and challenges many of the traditionally held, but continually critiqued, stereotypes present in Appalachian research. Beyond a deeper understanding of Appalachian activism, this paper investigates the ways in which knowledge production and epistemological assumptions are challenged by less costly and more accessible technologies such as drones.

scholarly journals The Unity of the Trajectory of Sustainable Development of the Mining Region and Ensuring its Environmental Safety

2019 ◽  
Vol 134 ◽  
pp. 03007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oksana Sheveleva ◽  
Ekaterina Slesarenko ◽  
Natalia Kudrevatykh ◽  
Tatiana Mamzina
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Coal Mining ◽  
Environmental Remediation ◽  
Environmental Safety ◽  
Coal Industry ◽  
Adequate Funding ◽  
Mining Region ◽  
Nature Restoration ◽  
Financial Investments

Environmental safety can be considered as an integral and one of the most important parts of the concept of sustainable development of a coal-mining region, since the environmental risks occupy one of the leading places among the risks of backbone enterprises of such regions due to the particularities of the coal industry and its impact on the environment. In the article, environmental safety is assessed through indicators of the quality of atmospheric air and water, as well as investments in the restoration and protection of the environment; discrepancies were revealed between the amount of financial investments allocated to nature restoration measures and the results of the anthropogenic impact of coal mining enterprises on the biosphere; emphasis was placed on the need to improve the efficiency of funds allocated for environmental protection and rational use of natural resources. Considered priority areas of environmental activities implemented in the framework of the environmental policy of JSC SUEK-Kuzbass. The effectiveness of the system of environmental remediation measures developed by the Company, their adequate funding, makes it possible to place the Company among the industry leaders in environmental and social responsibility for its activities.

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