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At every working pithead in the United Kingdom last week smut-faced coal miners voted in favor of a nation-wide strike, 409,351 to 29,215. Yet afterward, with the characteristic attitude of such ...
Canada and the United States have agreed to review a long standing cross-border dispute that involves pollution from coal mines in the Canadian province of British Columbia flowing into U.S ...
1,106,200. A report issued last week by the Ministry of Labor placed the number of miners unemployed as a result of the continued British coal strike (TIME, May 10 et seq.) at 1,106,200. 3½ ...
In March 1984 most British coal miners struck in protest against pit closures. It was the beginning of a bitter dispute that lasted for a year and ended in defeat for the miners.
Calgary-based CTI Plus Resources has put forward plans to develop an openpit metallurgical coal mine, known as the Rocky Creek project, in British Columbia. The proposed site is located about 47 ...
Researchers with the U.S. Geological Survey have concluded that a large coal-mining operation in British Columbia is sending pollution more than 350 miles downstream into the Columbia River.