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- noun Plural form of
coalfield .
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Examples
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Trouble in the coalfields is endemic and perpetual, like the "war" in Ulster and the timeless turbulence between Arabs and Jews.
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Trouble in the coalfields is endemic and perpetual, like the "war" in Ulster and the timeless turbulence between Arabs and Jews.
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Eighty per cent of our electricity is coal-generated and clustered around our coalfields are our aluminium producers.
Meet the man who has exposed the great climate change con trick 2009
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The mountains as God made them have become that enemy, and the false argument that sparsely populated coalfields need more flat land for development is the rationale that is being used to justify MTR.
Jeff Biggers: Taking on Big Coal Governors: West Virginia Mountain Party Candidate Inspires the Nation Jeff Biggers 2011
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You'll find them on The Crooked Road, about 250 miles along Virginia's southwest corner, from the eastern slopes of the Blue Ridge west to the coalfields region, through the valleys and peaks of the Appalachian mountains.
Lea Lane: Hooked on Virginia's Crooked Road Lea Lane 2011
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This type of conversation is hardly limited to the coalfields of Appalachia.
Jeff Biggers: Roadmaps to New Power: Appalachian Transition Initiative Leads Coalfields into New Year--and New Era Jeff Biggers 2011
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A challenge will be making deliberate efforts to develop new jobs that are specifically located in the coalfields.
Jeff Biggers: Roadmaps to New Power: Appalachian Transition Initiative Leads Coalfields into New Year--and New Era Jeff Biggers 2011
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That's a good thing, because MTR can ultimately only be stopped on a national level since political corruption is entrenched in the coalfields.
Jeff Biggers: Taking on Big Coal Governors: West Virginia Mountain Party Candidate Inspires the Nation Jeff Biggers 2011
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But first, we all have to work together to get the issues out there and heard--inside the coalfields, and out.
Jeff Biggers: Roadmaps to New Power: Appalachian Transition Initiative Leads Coalfields into New Year--and New Era Jeff Biggers 2011
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You'll find them on The Crooked Road, about 250 miles along Virginia's southwest corner, from the eastern slopes of the Blue Ridge west to the coalfields region, through the valleys and peaks of the Appalachian mountains.
Lea Lane: Hooked on Virginia's Crooked Road Lea Lane 2011
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