According to the latest data from the General Administration of Customs (GAC), China's net import(净出口) of coal hit 103.43 million tons in 2009. Last year, China exported 22.40 million tons of coal, down 50.7 percent year on year, while its coal

发表于:2018-12-11 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

DAVID GREENE, HOST: And, you know, the debate over coal can really seem like a battle between bitter enemies. You have environmentalists who want to replace coal with cleaner fuels and coal boosters who want to revive the industry. But there really i

发表于:2018-12-17 / 阅读(78) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台5月

New analysis by the China National Coal Association through the first 7-months of this year is pointing to overcapacity still remaining a serious problem in this country's coal industry. CRI's Li Dong has more. The CNCA report shows that the country'

发表于:2018-12-19 / 阅读(47) / 评论(0) 分类 世界各地新闻集锦

Last week, the Minister of Conservation, Nick Smith, gave permission for a new open-cast coal mine on conservation land on the West Coast. The Environment Court last month said it would probably give permission for the mine. Now the Forest and Bird o

发表于:2018-12-31 / 阅读(86) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

By Mil Arcega Washington 04 December 2007 A decommissioned coal mine in the Rocky Mountain state of Wyoming is about to get a new lease on life. Although it no longer produces enough coal to generate electricity, the company that owns the land has fo

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(84) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA常速英语2007年(十二月)

SHIJIAZHUANG, July 2 (Xinhua) -- Coal inventories in Qinhuangdao, Tangshan and Huanghua, China's major coal ports, have reached record highs in recent days, sparking safety concerns for the Chinese energy market. According to the latest figures, coal

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(92) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

India's government is hitting back at corruption allegations and urging opposition lawmakers to end protests that have shut down parliament for a fourth day. Opposition members have been calling for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's resignation

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

BEIJING, Aug. 24 (Xinhua) -- A spokesman for China's work safety regulator said on Friday that coal mining remains a high-risk industry in the country despite improvements over the past decade. Speaking at a press conference in Beijing, Huang Yi, of

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(75) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

BEIJING, Feb. 4 (Xinhua) -- China proposes to further reshuffle its coal industry by setting higher thresholds for the scale of coal producers and encouraging mergers to form industrial conglomerates, the government said Monday. The minimum standard

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

BEIJING, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- China's safety watchdog said Monday it will no longer approve new coal mines that do not meet production capacity requirements in 2013 in order to ensure work safety. High-gas coal mines with an annual production of less

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(116) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

英语短文:Coal-fired power plants The invention of the incandescent light bulb by Thomas A. Edison in 1879 created a demand for a cheap, readily available fuel with which to generate large amounts of electric power. Coal seemed to fit the bill,

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 英语小短文

Well now the sky, it grows dark The night, it grows cold The winds, they blow sharp The year, it grows old And all ends have their starts Every half has its whole There is fire in our hearts We'll have timber and coal Timber and coal Well now the bir

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(84) / 评论(0) 分类 美国乡村音乐

Coal consumption is increasing in many parts of the world, driven by skyrocketing energy demands in rapidly developing countries like China. But with coal comes pollution: from climate-changing carbon dioxide to coal ash, the powdery toxic waste left

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AILSA CHANG, HOST: Despite mounting evidence and a stream of dire warnings, federal regulators and mining companies failed to protect coal miners from toxic dust. MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: NPR and the PBS series Frontline spent more than a year lookin

发表于:2019-01-19 / 阅读(82) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年NPR美国国家公共电台12月

Families of the 29 miners who died in the Pike River coal mine heard the news this week that the bodies probably cannot be recovered. It is too dangerous for anyone to enter the mine. There is a risk of another explosion if the mine is opened. Solid

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(50) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

At the moment, workers at the Pike River Coal mine are using a jet machine to pump CO2 into the mine to put out the fire. Then they will put a cover over the entrance. When the mine is cool and all poisonous gases have gone, rescuers will enter the m

发表于:2019-02-02 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

中国富煤缺油少气的能源资源特点,造成能源消费主要依赖于煤炭,石油则主要依靠进口,而且带来一系列环境问题。煤清洁转化技术则可以帮助缓解这一难题。近日专家表示,我国将在2020年

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(119) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

BEIJING, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- China will work to control coal consumption this year in the face of strained coal supplies, the country's energy chief said Saturday. Putting a cap on total coal consumption will help to hasten industrial restructuring a

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(87) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: For decades men without much education could make a very good living by mining coal. The loss of those jobs has stung as the coal industry has declined. Renewable power, especially solar power, is now where jobs are. So we wondered

发表于:2019-02-13 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台5月

As the world's largest coal producer and consumer, massive coal production has powered China's economic advance over the past few decades. But shrinking domestic demand amid an economic slowdown has made much of this capacity redundant. Wang Xianzhen

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