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Happy Fossil Friday!
Who: Borealopelta markmitchelli
name meaning: "Northern shield" "Mark Mitchell"
pronunciation: Bore-ee-al-oh-pell-tah Mark-Mitchell-eye
What: A nodosaur, the un-clubbed kin to ankylosaurs
When: Early Cretaceous Period
Where: Alberta, Canada
Fun fact!: The specimen pictured above is one of the most well preserved dinosaurs ever discovered. It was discovered by miner Shawn Funk at Millennium Mine oil sands just north of Fort McMurray in Alberta. This local was perfect for exceptional preservation as the deposits were predominantly bitumen-rich (coal) sands. Preserved on the animal are not only skin impressions, but a snapshot image of what the animal would have looked like in life, and even red pigments have been found that indicate the hue of the skin.
Image Credits: (Left: Meet Borealopelta markmitchelli, ‘Best-Preserved Armored Dinosaur’ | Paleontology | Sci-News.com Right: M. Cross)
#paleontology#fossil friday#palaeontology#fossils#paleo#palaeoart#paleoart#canada#borealopelta#nodosaur#alberta#coal mining#mummified dinosaur
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A coal miner’s canary
Inscription reads “In memory of Little Joe. Died November 3rd 1875. Aged 3 years.”
In the 19th century up until the late 20th century, canaries were used to detect carbon monoxide as well as other toxic gases.
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If you haven’t watched the music video for Tyler Childers’ In Your Love please do. It’s a beautiful snapshot of Appalachian queer love through the heartbreaking lens that is selling your body to the coal mines.
Childers continues to make excellent music while being intentional about what his art says. In this video he is making a statement about the beautiful diversity of every corner of our world, AND about how there are hundreds of industries beyond sex work that we sell our bodies to.
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(They also hired Colton Haynes & James Scully to play the couple, which just makes my heart so happy.)
If you can, go download & view & get him to the top of the charts instead of some other tacky ass fake country man child who will remain nameless.
#tyler childers#in your love#music video#tw: death#colton haynes#james scully#appalachia#appalachian mountains#coal mining#black lung#Youtube
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“In Your Love” by Tyler Childers
#the gay coal miners🩵🩵🩵#in your love#rustin in the rain#tyler childers#country music#country#folk music#bluegrass#kentucky#appalachia#coal mining#colton haynes#james scully#silas house#gifs#e
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#there is power in a union#mining town#coal mines#west virgina#coal mining#appalachia#appalachian gothic#americana#appalachian culture#yall come back now queue hear?
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#coffinwood#appalachia#appalachain mountains#gothic#americana#vintage#appalachian gothic#coal mining
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Wind, Coal, West-by-god-Virginia
Interesting to see an article about a place so close to where I live:
I think that, on a national level, we should do a better job of supporting people whose livelihoods are being eliminated. Yes, we need to support wind and solar and get rid of coal. We must and will do that. However, people and whole towns are suffering pretty badly in the transition.
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On February 18th, 1981, a BBC headline announced something that would be unthinkable three years later, 'Thatcher Gives in to Miners'.
"…Mrs Thatcher's Conservative Government has withdrawn plans to close 23 pits in its first major u-turn since coming to power two years ago. President of the National Union of Mineworkers Joe Gormley is confident the government's intervention will avert the threatened national miners' strikes…"
After crisis talks in Whitehall between union leaders and Energy Secretary, David Howell, the government agreed to reduce coal imports from eight million to 5.5 million tons and to reinstate higher operating subsidies.
NUM President Joe Gormley stated that as a result of commitments given, he would not be recommending a strike despite overwhelming support for industrial action from within the union membership.
Not everyone was happy;
"…The next day the NUM told all miners to return to work after the executive voted to accept the concessions made by the government and coal board by 15 to 8, with one abstention. Some left-wing pits maintained unofficial stoppages and there were pickets outside the NUM headquarters in London…"
When the government confirmed an injection of 300 million pounds in industry support, the unofficial action was called off and rebel pits were operating again by 20th February. Just over a year later, Joe Gormley secured a 9.3 % pay rise for miners, and was replaced by Arthur Scargill as NUM President.
In a 2002 BBC documentary, a former Special Branch officer claimed that Joe Gormley was a security services informant during the 1970s, having become concerned over the increasing influence within the NUM of left-wing militants.
Arthur Scargill opined,
"…The history of our movement is littered with people in leadership positions who were either connected with Special Branch or connected with the State..."
Joe Gormley was awarded a Life Peerage in 1982, and passed away in 1993.
#social history#uk politics#working class history#social justice#modern history#uk government#british culture#society#uk history#coal mining#coal industry#industrial action#trade unions
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I honestly believe that folk-music about coal-mines (and how working in them can destroy you, body, soul, land, and community) has done a LOT to get me on board with Solar and Wind-Energy.
I sincerely believe that my Appalachian forefathers would rather their descendants have solar-panels on the roof, than a grave deep in the mines.
Also, modern strip-mining practices are known to cause severe flooding, landslides, mudslides, and poisoned water-supplies. Which is a big enough concern for my general area to have Build/Live UP-SLOPE from the Flood Zone engraved in my skull. Because there've been a lot of floods, and the Climate Crisis isn't making that problem go away any time soon.
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Send her to the coal mines.
Not sure what you meant by "the" coal mines so I sent her to a coal mine.
Chell why don't you have a helmet on.
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#oc#original character#own character#oc art#oc artwork#oc tag#1980s#80s#michał#miners#coal mining#silesia#upper silesia#śląsk#górny śląsk#oberschlesien#design#character design#vintage aesthetic#vintage oc#art#digital#artwork#drawing#digital art#digital drawing#mine#my art#my artwork#artist on tumblr
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"All over Appalachia the ruins of trestles jutted from deserted hillside coal mines. This mine had once offered workers a good living, but it closed in 1945."
"Tearing with bare hands at frozen lumps of coal, Willard Bryant and his son Billy crouched between railroad tracks, scavenging fuel to heat their home. When the tub was full, they dragged it to the hill where they live, reloaded the coal into bags and carried it on their backs to the house."
John Dominis' 1964 "The Valley of Poverty" photo essay
#coal mining#coal mines#appalachian#appalachia#appalachian gothic#americana#american gothic#rural america#small town america#kentucky
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Alberta’s New Democrat Opposition is asking the provincial government to step in and quash applications for coal mining exploration in the Rocky Mountains.
In a letter to Energy Minister Brian Jean, environment critic Jodi Calahoo Stonehouse says he should tell the Alberta Energy Regulator to reject applications from Northback Holdings for drilling and water use.
Last week, Northback applied to the regulator to revive the Grassy Mountain project, which was denied by a joint federal-provincial review panel in 2021.
Continue Reading.
Tagging: @politicsofcanada @abpoli
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Internet Archive link (aka no paywall): https://web.archive.org/web/20230318235147/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/15/climate/epa-states-pollution-smog.html
"The Biden administration on Wednesday finalized a rule forcing factories and power plants in 23 Western and Midwestern states to sharply cut smog-causing pollution that is released from their smokestacks and fouls the air in Eastern states.
Known as the “good neighbor” rule, the new regulation strengthens and expands an earlier interstate air pollution standard that was enacted during the Obama administration. While that rule directed power plants to clean up their emissions, the revised rule enforces similar controls on mills, factories and other industrial facilities.
The Environmental Protection Agency is required by the Clean Air Act to periodically review and revise the rule. After failing do so during the Trump administration, it is now strengthening restrictions under a court-ordered deadline.
The good neighbor rule holds that states should take measures to ensure that their pollution doesn’t affect downwind states. It directs coal-burning power plants and industrial facilities such as iron, steel, cement and concrete manufacturers in the Western and Midwestern states to reduce their emissions of nitrogen dioxide, a pollutant that causes smog and is linked to asthma, lung disease and premature death...
“Every community deserves fresh air to breathe,” E.P.A. Administrator Michael S. Regan said. “We know air pollution doesn’t stop at the state line.”
The tighter rules on power plants will come into force later this year, while the new controls on factories and other industrial polluters will take effect in 2026.
The revised rule is one of a stack of climate and clean air regulations expected this year from the Biden administration, including stricter controls on planet-warming emissions from cars, trucks, power plants and oil and gas wells and mercury pollution from power plants. Collectively, they are designed to strengthen the clean air and climate protections that had been rolled back by the Trump administration, and to accelerate the nation’s transition away from fossil fuels and toward renewable energy.
The E.P.A. estimates that the updated good neighbor rule will cut emissions of nitrogen oxide in the affected states by 50 percent from 2021 levels by 2027, preventing 1,300 premature deaths, avoiding more than 2,300 hospital and emergency room visits, preventing 1.3 million cases of asthma and avoiding 430,000 lost school days and 25,000 missed work days..."
-via The New York Times, 3/15/23
Note: The NYT is disproportionately focused on the results to distant low-industry and often majority-white states, such as Delaware (I couldn't find a more comprehensive article on this, unfortunately). But these regulations will also have powerful impacts on areas and communities disproportionately affected by heavy industry by cutting emissions at the source, which will hopefully help to reduce the devastating impacts of environmental racism and protect communities that actually live next to these factories, not just hundreds of miles away.
#air pollution#cement#coal#coal mining#power plants#industrial pollution#environmental justice#nitrogen oxide#asthma#epa#environmental law#good news#hope
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